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Clara Clemens, the daughter of Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), was out for a sleigh ride with her future husband, Russian pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch.
Clara Clemens was uninjured but in shock, while Gabrilowitsch sprained his ankle. (Elmira Star-Gazette, Dec. 21, 1908) Clara and Ossip had met in Vienna in 1898 while they were both studying piano ...
Clara and her father lived in Vienna for 20 months between 1897 and 1899 as Clara studied with Leschetizky. The Mark Twain pseudonym gave Samuel Clemens the uniquely American persona of a wizened ...
By the time her mother, Clara Clemens, died in 1962, Gabrilowitsch was cut out of her mother's will, and most of the large estate Twain left her had been squandered by Clemens' second husband, a ...
In 1940, the recently widowed and wealthy Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch bought a small estate in the Hollywood hills and sought counsel from a medium named Sardoney about her love life.
Samuel Clemens’ family saga was a tragedy, known by few, that ended in San Diego. The famous actor Hal Holbrook learned the truth in a 1959 visit.
Clara, though, lived a full life, marrying Russian conductor and pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch in 1909. Clemens’ only granddaughter, Nina Clemens Gabrilowitsch, was born the next year.
Gabrilowitsch, also known as Clara Clemens, was the only surviving daughter of the founding father of American literature, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
Clara Clemens was uninjured but in shock, while Gabrilowitsch sprained his ankle. (Elmira Star-Gazette, Dec. 21, 1908) Clara and Ossip had met in Vienna in 1898 while they were both studying piano ...