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Tamara Tchinarova Finch (also tr. Chinova; born Tamara Rekemchuk, 1919), is a retired ballet dancer of Armenian, Georgian and Ukrainian descent. During the 1940s Tchinarova contributed significantly to the development of fledgling Australian dance companies, including the Kirsova Ballet and the Borovansky Ballet. After retiring from dancing, she worked as a Russian/English interpreter for touring ballet companies, including the Australian Ballet, and as a dance writer. == Early life and family == She was born Tamara Yevsevievna Rekemchuk ((ロシア語:Тама́ра Евсевиевна Рекемчу́к)) in 1919 in Cetatea Albă, Bessarabia. The territory became part of the Kingdom of Romania in 1918 after World War I, but has been part of Ukraine since World War II. Her maternal grandfather, Kristapor Chinaryan, was an Armenian landowner who survived the Hamidian massacres by the Ottoman Empire. In 1895, Chinaryan fled to Bessarabia, where he adopted the Russified surname of Chinarov. He married a Ukrainian woman and eventually became extremely wealthy, owning three vineyards, three houses and a hotel. Her grandfather, Tchinarova Finch wrote, "could achieve success in business even on a desert island. He was practical, quick, receptive, generous, envied and loved." During the Kishinev pogroms, he sheltered Jewish families in his basements.〔 Her mother, Anna, studied nursing and served with the Red Cross during World War I. There she met a captain of Ukrainian and Georgian descent, Yevseny Rekemchuk, and married him in 1918.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ballet Magazine Review )〕 In the 1920s, her family immigrated to Paris, where she began her dance training with émigré ballerinas from the Imperial Russian Ballet. In 1926, her father returned to the Soviet Union.〔 She describes him as "idealistic"〔Autobiographical article, ''Dance Chronicle'', January 2004〕 and wanting to help build a new society. Tamara and her mother, staunchly anti-Bolshevik, decided to stay in Paris and never saw him again. She took her mother's maiden name, Chinarova (transliterated into French as Tchinarova). Her father remarried actress Lidia Prikhodko and in 1927 had a son, Alexander Rekemchuk, who went on to become an accomplished journalist and author. Yevseny worked for the Soviet Secret police and was shot in 1937 during the Great Purge; he was posthumously rehabilitated after Stalin's death.〔 In 1940, Tchinarova's grandfather Kristapor, 88, and his wife were murdered by Soviet troops, who stormed their home and bayoneted them. Other family members were exiled to Siberia, where several of them died.〔 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「Tamara Tchinarova」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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