Vera de Bosset

Vera de Bosset Stravinsky (January 7, 1889[1] – September 17, 1982) was an American dancer and artist.

[5] Vera allegedly changed her name to the French "de Bosset" to hide her German ancestry.

From then until the death of Yekaterina from pneumonia in March 1939, Stravinsky led a double life, spending most of his time with his wife and children and the rest with Vera.

[citation needed] Yekaterina reportedly bore her husband's infidelity "with a mixture of magnanimity, bitterness, and compassion".

[6] In September 1939, Stravinsky arrived in America to give the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.