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Maria Quisling, born Maria Vasilyevna Pasek/Pasetchnikova,〔Dahl (1991), p.93〕 (10 October 1900 – 17 January 1980), was known as the wife of Vidkun Quisling, though historians have doubts about whether the couple were legally married. The couple met in Kharkiv in 1923 and they were formally and informally married in September that year. The next few years she lived in Norway and France, often separated from Vidkun due to his jobs and travels. They settled permanently in Norway in 1929 where Vidkun was one of the founders of the fascist party ''Nasjonal Samling''. During the German occupation of Norway, Vidkun led a pro-Nazi puppet regime. Quisling lived with him in Villa Grande from 1941 to 1945 and served as hostess for social gatherings there and at the Royal Palace. After Vidkun was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death, she made several appeals to authorities on his behalf, though unsuccessfully. She was briefly arrested in 1946 for her actions during the occupation, but all charges were dropped. She fought for many years to get the apartment and other properties she and Vidkun had owned back. A final settlement was reached in 1955, giving her the apartment, many paintings and furniture and a sum of money. In 1959, she also got an urn with ashes of Vidkun, which she buried at Gjerpen church yard in a small ceremony. After having lived a secluded life in Oslo after the war, she died in 1980, leaving her assets to a charity fund bearing her and Vidkun's name which each year gives a small sum of money to a limited number of elderly persons. == Early life and marriage == Maria Quisling's birth was probably in November 1900 in Kharkiv.〔 A student's card says she was born in 1899. Information about her family is unsure. She told her family-in-law that her father had been a higher civil servant.〔Dahl (1991), p.105〕 She finished high school in 1918 and obtained a degree from Kharkov Economic Institute in 1922.〔 The same year she started working for a Ukrainian organization which co-ordinated the work of various foreign aid organizations in the area, including the Nansen aid.〔 She met Vidkun for the first time in March 1923 and a romantic relationship developed during the summer that year. Vidkun had formally or informally married Alexandra a short time before. Historian Hans Fredrik Dahl believes Maria knew about the relationship with Alexandra and accepted his explanation that it was a pro-forma marriage to help Alexandra out of Russia.〔Dahl (1991), p.94〕 According to Quisling, she and Vidkun got married at the Norwegian legation in Moscow on 10 September 1923.〔Dahl (1991), p.95〕 Historians believe this is wrong as Norway did not formally recognize the new Soviet authorities before 1924. The representative at the Norwegian Commerce office did not have the right to perform marriages and he was not in Moscow on 10 September. The couple might have had a civil marriage in Kharkov, though there has never been any documentation of this. Historian Hans Fredrik Dahl believe some kind of marriage took place in Kharkov that day, but that he is unsure whether it happened in formally correct ways or was an informal ceremony.〔Dahl (1991), pp.94–95〕 The same day as the marriage allegedly took place, Maria got a special passport for employees of Nansen Action. It was issued to Mary Quisling.〔Dahl (1991), p.96〕 Quisling left Russia on her own and arrived in Paris, where in late 1923 she was reunited with Vidkun and Alexandra who had travelled together.〔 They lived for a time at Hotel Studia in the Latin Quarter,〔Dahl (1991), p.99〕〔Dahl (1991), p.104〕 though they travelled to Vienna and other places from November to January 1924. In June 1924, Maria, Alexandra and Vidkun travelled to Norway and Maria was introduced to his family as his new wife and spent some time with Vidkun's parents in Telemark where she started to learn Norwegian. Alexandra, who Vidkun the year before had introduced as his wife, was now referred to as a child he took care of. Alexandra left Norway permanently later that summer.〔 Quisling returned to France in 1926 where she met Alexandra again and had company of other Russian immigrants.〔Dahl (1991), p.112〕 She lived in Normandy and in Paris where she attended courses at La Sorbonne for a while.〔Dahl (1991), p.131〕 After Vidkun got a position in Moscow as legation secretary in charge of British Diplomatic affairs which was handled by Norway, Quisling joined him there in November 1928. The couple lived for a time together with linguist Olaf Broch and his wife and later with diplomat Per Prebensen and his wife Ragnhild.〔Dahl (1991), pp.132–133〕 During 1928 and 1929, the Quisling couple bought numerous paintings and antiques, as well as silverware and furniture.〔Juritzen (2008), pp.154–155〕 Vidkun used his savings and an inheritance from his mother to pay for the purchases. According to Quisling's later statements, her mother arrived in Moscow with a sum of money that was Quisling's inheritance from her father, though author Arve Juritzen has questioned whether the mother actually was in Moscow that year. She was at the time poor and relied on economic support from Vidkun.〔Juritzen (2008), pp.285–289〕〔Dahl (1991), pp.38–39〕 In December 1929, the couple settled in Oslo, where Vidkun in 1922 had bought an apartment in Erling Skjalgssons gate 26 in Frogner.〔Dahl (1991), p.139〕 Most of the 200 paintings were placed in safe deposit boxes, as they proved difficult to sell for the prices Vidkun had expected. He had believed many of the paintings were by renowned painters, but they were mostly found to be copies.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maria Quisling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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