'''Helen Witte Silvermaster''' nee '''Vera Lavrow''' was born 19 July 1899 in [[Russia]]. Her father, Baron Peter Wittee, was a counselor to the [[Czar]] and acted as advisor to the [[mongolia|Mongolian]] government. After the [[October Revolution]] he was released and later became the head of the Rice Institute in the Southern [[Ukraine]]. He was known in Russia as the “Red Baron” for his support of the [[Bolsheviks]]. After the Revolution she traveled to [[China]] and married a Russian becoming '''Vera Ivanova Witte''' about 1923. They emigrated to [[San Francisco]] in 1924 where her son, [[Anatole Volkov|Anatole Boris Volkov]] was born in 1924. Shortly after Anatole's birth the couple separated and Helen began living with [[Greg Silvermaster|Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]]. They were married in 1930. | '''Helen Witte Silvermaster''' nee '''Vera Lavrow''' was born 19 July 1899 in [[Russia]]. Her father, Baron Peter Wittee, was a counselor to the [[Czar]] and acted as advisor to the [[mongolia|Mongolian]] government. After the [[October Revolution]] he was released and later became the head of the Rice Institute in the Southern [[Ukraine]]. He was known in Russia as the “Red Baron” for his support of the [[Bolsheviks]]. After the Revolution she traveled to [[China]] and married a Russian becoming '''Vera Ivanova Witte''' about 1923. They emigrated to [[San Francisco]] in 1924 where her son, [[Anatole Volkov|Anatole Boris Volkov]] was born in 1924. Shortly after Anatole's birth the couple separated and Helen began living with [[Greg Silvermaster|Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]]. They were married in 1930. |