Editing Tamara de Lempicka (section)

===Warsaw and St. Petersburg (1894–1917)===
She was born on 16 June 1894<ref name="Soru_2024"/><ref name="Gioia_Mori"/> in either Warsaw, which was then part of [[Congress Poland]],{{sfnp|Commire|2002}} or in [[St. Petersburg]], though the widely accepted place of birth is Warsaw.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63ucGV0weFU |title=A conversation on Tamara de Lempicka |date=2024-10-13 |last=Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |access-date=2025-02-06 |via=YouTube}}</ref> Her father was Boris (born Benno)<ref name="rmf24">{{Cite web |last=Smaga |first=Dominik |date=3 October 2024 |title=Sensacja w Lublinie. Część życiorysu słynnej artystki do kosza |trans-title=Part of Tamara Łempicka's biography thrown into the bin. Sensation in Lublin |url=https://www.rmf24.pl/regiony/lublin/news-czesc-zyciorysu-tamary-lempickiej-do-kosza-sensacja-w-lublin,nId,7828629#crp_state=1 |access-date=2024-10-05 |website=www.rmf24.pl |language=pl}}</ref> Gurwik-Górski, a [[Russian-Jewish]] attorney for a French trading company,{{sfnp|Commire|2002}}<ref name="Guardian 2004" /><ref name="culture.pl" /><ref name="NYT1999" /> and her mother was Malwina Dekler, a [[Polish-Jewish]]<ref>{{cite journal | url = https://czasopisma.ispan.pl/index.php/bhs/article/view/698 | title = W cieniu Tamary | author = Joanna Sosnowska | journal = Biuletyn Historii Sztuki | publisher = Warszawa, Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk | date = 21 January 2021 | volume = 82 | issue = 4 | pages = 643–658 | doi = 10.36744/bhs.698 | s2cid = 234191873 | access-date = 8 August 2022| doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://niezlasztuka.net/o-sztuce/tamara-lempicka-dziesiec-nieznanych-faktow-na-jej-temat/ | title = Tamara Łempicka: dziesięć nieznanych faktów na jej temat | author = Sylwia Zientek | date = 8 March 2022 | access-date = 8 August 2022}}</ref> socialite who had lived most of her life abroad and who met her husband at one of the European spas.{{sfnp|Claridge|Lempicka|1999|pp=15, 377}} Both of her parents were baptized in 1891 in the Warsaw congregation of the [[Polish Reformed Church]]; Tamara and her two siblings, Stanisław and Adrianna, were  baptized as [[Protestant]] converts at Moscow's Reformed Church in 1897.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://zamek-lublin.pl/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tamara-Lempicka-between-facts-and-creation-ENG.pdf |title=Tamara Lempicka between facts and creation |website=zamek-lublin.pl |access-date=2024-10-06}}</ref>

Tamara was raised in Warsaw by her mother and grandparents, Bernard and Klementyna Dekler, who were members of the social and Polish cultural elite – they were friends with [[Ignacy Jan Paderewski]] and [[Artur Rubinstein]].<ref name="culture.pl" /> Their family grave is located in the [[Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw]].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cemetery.jewish.org.pl/id_5158/info/back_1:0/_Bernard_Dekler.html | title = The tomb of the Dekler family in the database of Jewish tombstones in Poland | access-date = 8 August 2022}}</ref> When Tamara was ten, her mother commissioned a pastel portrait of her by a prominent local artist. She detested posing and was dissatisfied with the finished work. She took the pastels, had her younger sister pose, and made her first portrait.{{sfnp|Néret|2016|page=93}}

In 1911, her parents sent her to a boarding school in [[Lausanne]], [[Switzerland]], but she was bored and she feigned illness to be permitted to leave the school. Instead, her grandmother took her on a tour of Italy, where she developed her interest in art. After her parents divorced in 1912, she chose to spend the summer with her wealthy Aunt Stefa in Saint Petersburg.{{sfnp|Claridge|Lempicka|1999|p=44}} There, in 1915, she met and fell in love with a prominent Polish lawyer, Tadeusz Łempicki (1888–1951). Her family offered him a large dowry, and they were married 30 December 1915 in a Roman Catholic church in [[Tsarskoye Selo]] (earlier studies claimed a 1916 marriage in the chapel of the Knights of Malta in St. Petersburg).<ref name="rmf24" />{{sfnp|Claridge|Lempicka|1999|pp=39–40, 53}}{{sfnp|Néret|2016|page=93}}

The [[Russian Revolution]] in November 1917 overturned their comfortable life. In December 1917, Tadeusz Łempicki, who was believed to be a member of the [[Tsar]]'s secret police,<ref>{{cite news |author1=Elena Cué |author1-link=Elena Cué |title=Elena Cué: retrato de una dama del arte, Tamara de Lempicka |url=https://www.hola.com/hola-living/20250314818469/elena-cue-retrato-dama-del-arte-tamara-de-lempicka/ |work=[[¡HOLA!]] |date=14 March 2025 |language=es}}</ref> was arrested in the middle of the night by the [[Cheka]], the secret police. Tamara searched the prisons for him, and with the help of the Swedish consul, to whom she offered her favors, she secured his release.{{sfnp|Néret|2016|page=93}} They traveled to [[Copenhagen]] then to London and finally to Paris, where Tamara's family had also found refuge.{{sfnp|Henderson|2005|pp=106–109}}{{sfnp|Claridge|Lempicka |1999|pp=39–40, 53}}