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[[File:Vera Johnston.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Vera Jelihovsky Johnston<br>in St. Petersbourg, 1894.]]
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'''Vera Vladimirovna de Zhelihovsky''' was the daughter of Madame [[Vera Petrovna de Zhelihovsky]] and niece of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|H. P. Blavatsky]].
 
In August, 1888, she married Sanskrit scholar [[Charles Johnston]]. The ceremony took place at Mme. Blavatsky's home, 17, Lansdowne Road, London. [[Henry Steel Olcott|Col. Olcott]], visiting London at the time, represented Vera's mother and the rest of the family at the civil marriage at the registrar's office.<ref>Henry Steel Olcott, ''Old Diary Leaves'' Fourth Series (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1974), 71.</ref>
 
At the request of [[William Quan Judge]], she translated her aunt's Russian-language letters to her family so that they could be published in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']] from December, 1894 to December, 1895.<ref>Mary K. Neff, ''Personal Memoris of H. P. Blavatsky, (New York: Dutton, 1937), 241.</ref>
 
The Johnstons became members of the [[Theosophical Society in America (Hargrove)|Theosophical Society in America, (later renamed Theosophical Society)]] headed by [[Ernest Temple Hargrove]].
 
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[[Category:TS Hargrove|Johnston, Vera]]
[[Category:Associates of HPB|Johnston, Vera]]
[[Category:Nationality Russian|Johnston, Vera]]

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