Gertrude Clafton Vakar (1904 – 1973) was born in Reval, Russian Empire, to family of British descent that had been in the Russian Empire since 1795.
On a visit back to Paris, she met Nicholas Vakar, a former White Army officer, then a writer for the Russian language daily Posledniye Novosti.
They had two daughters, Catherine in 1927 and Anna in 1929; both girls have escaped from France to the United States in 1940.
[1] The latter is well-known Canadian haiku poet residing in Oliver, British Columbia.
[2] Vakar, trilingual since childhood, translated some 37 novels into Russian, from French or English, perhaps also German, for serialization in the Russian newspapers.