About: Irina Ilovaiskaya

Irina Alekseevna Ilovaiskaya-Alberti (Russian: Ирина Алексеевна Иловайская-Альберти) (born 5 December 1924, Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia - died 4 April 2000, Königstein im Taunus, Germany) was a Yugoslav journalist of Russian descent and campaigner against communism who edited La Pensée Russe, a Russian-language weekly newspaper published in Paris. She was born into a family who had left Russia for Serbia during the revolution. As a student at a Russian religious school under , she spent years studying religion and maintaining the altar. Ilovaiskaya-Alberti's spiritual father in those years was the prominent Orthodox theologian priest . With his blessing, she married the Italian diplomat Edgardo Georgie Alberti. She moved back to Russia in 1991.