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  1. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (née Hahn von Rottenstern; 12 August [O.S. 31 July] 1831 – 8 May 1891), often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian and American mystic and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875.

  2. Aug 20, 2015 · The imposter in question was Madame Helena Blavatsky. Born in Russia in 1831, she had, by her own account, left home at the age of 18 to wander the world.

  3. Helena Blavatsky was a Russian spiritualist, author, and cofounder of the Theosophical Society to promote theosophy, a pantheistic philosophical-religious system. At the age of 17, Helena Hahn married Nikifor V. Blavatsky, a Russian military officer and provincial vice-governor, but they separated.

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  4. Jun 29, 2019 · Madame Blavatsky, born Helena Petrovna von Hahn, was the oldest child of Helena Andreyevna von Hahn (a novelist) and Pyotr Alexeyevich von Hahn, both of aristocratic heritage. She was born in the Ukrainian town of Yekaterinoslav, which was at the time part of the Russian Empire.

  5. Oct 25, 2016 · Madame Helena Blavatsky was the 19th century's most famous and notorious occultist. She was also the godmother of the New Age movement.

  6. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), Russian-born Occultist and co-founder of The Theosophical Society, demonstrated psychic powers of a startling nature and claimed personal contact with highly developed Masters living in Tibet and India.

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  8. Oct 24, 2022 · It was a short-lived union that ended when Helena Blavatsky escaped to Constantinople. Details of what happened during the following quarter-century remain sparse.

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