1906	30 August	Zinaida Schakovskoy was born in Moscow

1916	September	entered the Catherine Institute in Saint Petersburg 

			(secondary school)

1917	February	returned to Matovo (family estate in Tul'skaia province)

1918	spring		Schakovskoy's mother was arrested and released in several 

			months

1920			arrived at Constantinople with her mother and sisters

1921-1922		entered an American College at Constantinople

1923			became a boarder at the Catholic convent of Berlaymont

1925-1926		enrolled in the Protestant School of Social Work in Paris

1926	21 November	married Sviatoslav Malewsky-Malevich

1926			left with him for the Belgian Congo

1929			returned to Belgium

1930s			published critical articles and short stories in French 

			for Belgian publications

1934			publication of Ukhod (Departure) in Russian

1935			Doroga (The road) was published in Russian

1937			Vie d'Alexandre Pouchkine and Insomnies were published 

			in Brussells

1939			Une enfance published in Brussells

1940	May-July	worked for the Service de SantŽ of the French army

1941			participated in the French Resistance

1942			left France for London where she worked for the Agence 

			franaise d'information

1945-1947		worked as a correspondent in Germany

1946			received Croix de EvadŽs (Belgian decoration)

1949			Europe and ValŽrius published (Prize de Paris winner)

1951-1952		was elected Executive Secretary of FIAF (International 

			Federation of Film Archives)

1952			Sortie de Secours published

1955			La Parole devient Sang published

1956			Jeu de Massacres published

1958			Ma Russie habillŽe en U.R.S.S. published

1960			became a Knight of Legion of Honour 

1960-1968		worked for the Russian section of the Office of French 

			Radio and Television (in charge of the broadcasts on 

			French culture)

1964-1967		four volumes of memoirs Tel est mon siŽcle published

1970			Pered snom (Before a Bedtime), poems in Russian published

1972			received French Decoration of Arts and Letters

1973			Sviatoslav Malewsky-Malevich died

1968-1978		editor of Russkaia Mysl' (Russian thought) in Paris

1978			Otrazhenia (Reflections) and Rasskazy, stat'i, stikhi 

			(Short Stories, Essays, Poems) published

1979			V poiskakh Nabokova (In Search of Nabokov) published

1980			Became Officer of Legion of Honour