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Connecticut Death Index
Name Marochka C Taylor
Event Date 02 Nov 1999
Event Place Stonington, New London, Connecticut
Residence Place Stonington, New London, Connecticut
Address 14 DIVING ST
Gender Female
Age 93
Marital Status Widowed
Race White
Occupation ART DEALER
Industry SELF EMPLOYED
Education Level 12
Birth Year (Estimated) 1906
Father's Surname (Original) ANISFELD
Spouse's Name OTIS
Certificate Number 25541
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District of Columbia has her birth date as 29 Jul 1909.
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Find A Grave Memorial# 137761323
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CHATFIELD TAYLOR-Marochka age 93 died of a stroke following a fall, in Mystic, CT, November 2, 1999, at Pendleton Rehabilitation Center. She was born in St. Petersburg, Russia July 24, 1906. Her father was the well-known Russian artist, Boris Anisfeld, who designed sets and costumes for the Russian theater and opera before the 1917 Russia revolution and later for the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Ms. Chatfield-Taylor emigrated to the USA with her father and mother at the height of the Russian revolution. She arrived in New York in 1918, when her father's paintings, transported from Russia, were exhibited in a major show at the Brooklyn Museum. Later, her father was employed by the Metropolitan Opera Company from 1918-1927. She was educated at the Ethical Culture Society School in Manhattan. The family moved to Chicago in 1929, where her father became professor of advanced painting at the Chicago Art Institute. While attending the Art Institute as a student, Ms. Anisfeld produced exhibitions of her own work of drawings and paintings. She also created murals for cafes and bars in Chicago and designed high-fashion clothing. In 1936, she married journalist Otis Chatfield-Taylor, from a prominent Chicago family. The ceremony was conducted in her father's art studio in Chicago. They lived in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. Mr. Chatfield-Taylor owned and edited the local newspaper. Following his death in 1948, Ms. Chatfield-Taylor moved to Manhattan and created a company called Maggie Taylor gowns, which produced her own original clothing designs. In 1954, Ms. Chatfield-Taylor moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked for many years as a real estate agent and antique dealer. In 1970 she moved to Stonington, CT. Following her father's death in 1973, she devoted her energies to promoting her father's reputation in the world of Russian and American art. She is survived by one son, Charles Chatfield-Taylor of San Francisco, CA and Stonington, CT and by two granddaughters, Jessica Chatfield-Taylor of San Francisco, and Mercedes Flett of Lotus, CA. No memorial service is planned.
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Mrs. Chatfield-Taylor, 93, died Tuesday in Mystic, Conn., after suffering a stroke.

The daughter of well-known Russian artist Boris Anisfeld, Mrs. Chatfield-Taylor came to New York City in 1918 at the height of the Russian Revolution. The family moved to Chicago nine years later when Boris Anisfeld took a teaching post at the Art Institute.

His daughter studied there and became an artist herself, as well as a fixture in local society pages. She designed clothes, did portraits and painted murals in cafes, her son said. Newspapers chronicled her first painting exhibition and her ambition: "(I) can't see how anybody can live without really doing something," she told one.

The papers were all the more enthralled with her surprise 1936 engagement to Otis Chatfield-Taylor, a newspaperman, playwright and member of a prominent Chicago family. Social pundits had apparently expected her to become engaged to someone else and breathlessly chronicled the "whirlwind courtship," the "rush of parties" celebrating their short engagement, and their wedding in her father's art studio.

The couple settled in a 300-year-old home in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., where he edited the local newspaper. But after her husband died 12 years into their marriage, Mrs. Chatfield-Taylor moved to Manhattan and resumed designing clothes. She called her label Maggie Taylor, using a nickname given by friends who had trouble pronouncing `Marochka,' her son said.

She then went to Washington, where she became a real estate agent and antiques dealer.

But after many years in the capital, she returned to the country--this time, to Stonington, Conn.,--and devoted herself to preserving her father's legacy in the art world, her son said. When a Canadian curator arranged a retrospective of Anisfeld's work in 1989, she shared hundreds of paintings as well as several hours of memories.

Through it all, her son said, "probably the happiest time of her life . . . was in Chicago."

Survivors include two grandchildren. No services are planned.
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Emmigrated with parents Boris and Freda Anisfeld, departing Yokohama 28 Dec 1917 aboard "The Empress of Russia", arriving Seattle, King Co., Washington, USA.

Washington, Seattle, Passenger Lists
Name Marella Anisfeld
Event Type Immigration
Event Date 1917
Event Place Seattle, King, Washington, USA
Gender Female
Age 9
Birthplace Russia
Ship Name Empress Of Russia
Birth Year (Estimated) 1908
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Migration • United Kingdom, Outgoing Passenger Lists
Name Maroch Baldwin
Sex Female
Age 41
Travel Place NEW YORK, New York
Arrival Place USA
Departure Date 11 Mar 1950
Departure Place England
Birth Date 1909
Marital Status Married
Occupation HOUSEWIFE
Source Amended N
Arrival Port NEW YORK
Departure Port SOUTHAMPTON
Ship Name VEENDAM
Shipping Company HOLLAND AMERICA LINE
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Migration • New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists
Name Marochka Baldwin
Sex Female
Age 41
Immigration Date 1950
Immigration Place New York City, New York
Birth Year (Estimated) 1909
Birthplace St Petersburg Russia
Ship Name Veendam