page_title: Clémentine de Vère
section_title: Marriage and divorce
hierarchical_section_title: Clémentine de Vère / Marriage and divorce
caption_attribution_description: English: Decorative poster for the stage show "Ionia" - Clémentine de Vère (1888-1973), British-Belgian magician and illusionist performing mainly in Paris.
context_page_description: Clémentine Lisine de Vère was a British magician and illusionist. Also known as Clementine de Vere and Princess Clémentine Eristavi Tchitcherine, she was a British citizen, although she was born in Belgium and lived in France for a long period. She became known under the stage name "Ionia - the Enchantress" or the "Goddess of Mystery".
context_section_description: She met a Russian-Georgian Prince Vladimir Eristavi Tchitcherine in Austria in 1913 and married him on 21 June 1919 in Paris, after her first marriage had been dissolved on 23 June 1917. The claim of her father that she had stayed in Moscow during the Russian Revolution appears to be untrue.  In the 1920s Clémentine de Vère lived temporarily with her second husband in Washington, DC and later in Paris. On 26 October 1928 this second marriage too was dissolved, but Clémentine de Vère retained the title of Princess, which she had received by the marriage.  She lived in Monaco and France for the rest of her life and was buried next to her parents in Batignolles Cemetery in Paris, France after her death in 1973. 
  Although her stage career was relatively short, lasting just three years, "Ionia's" act was spectacular, filling the stage with illusions. Her act was advertised with beautiful posters which many collectors consider to be some of the most artistic posters of magic’s “Golden Age.” Of the 22 known posters for "Ionia" produced by Moody Brothers of Birmingham, only about nine have survived and are now considered expensive collectibles.
caption: Decorative poster for the magic act "Ionia" c1911
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