(Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff.) 1878-1963 A Biographical Sketch. by Michael Moukhanoff 1964 In attempting this biographical sketch of Nelka I am using the memories of 45 years together and also a great number of letters as material. Her Aunt, Miss Susan Blow, had the habit of keeping Nelka's letters over the years. There are some as early as when Nelka was only five years old and then up to the year 1916, the year her aunt died. These letters reflect very vividly the personality, the ideas,