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Olgivanna Lloyd Wright wife and
companion of famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright Marko Miljanov was born and buried in the old ancient town of Medun (Meteon), Montenegro. The town of Medune was an ancient Illyrian-Roman Fortress around 167 A.D. There is a museum of Marko Miljanov in Medun, Montenegro. Present at the opening ceremony of the Marko Miljanov Museum in Medun was his grand daughter Olgivanna Lloyd Wright. Marko Miljanov through his famous writings built a bridge of friendship between Montenegrin and Serbian people with Albanian people. The old town Medun (Meteon),
more of a fortress, situated 13 kilometers northeast from Podgorica, has
origins in the classical period. It was erected originally as a fortress,
later on as a town, between IV and III century B.C. Well preserved walls
of the fortress were built of big blocks of trimmed stone, placed in a
number of rows. With respect to solidity and size of the construction it
substantially differs from the construction of other, less significant
Illyrian towns. Olgivanna Wright was born in Montenegro on 1898. Olgivanna Wright was a writer, dancer, composer, philosopher, teacher, she was in effect "A Partner to Genius" of Frank Lloyd Wright. She went to Russia in Tiflis, where her married sister resided and became a student in 1917 of the Greek-Armenian philosopher G.I. Gurdjieff. Because of the Bolshevik Revolution, she fled Czarist Russia with Gurdjeff's group and went to Turkey, France and finally the United States. She met Frank Lloyd Wright at a dance performance in a Chicago theater in 1924. Frank Lloyd Wright and Olga Ivanovna Lazovich fell in love. It was "love at first sight" like "two powerful magnet being drawn together". They married 1928 and made a lovely productive life until Frank Lloyd Wright died on April 9, 1959. Olgivanna Lloyd Wright died at a Scottsdale Hospital on a March morning 1985. The ashes of Olgivanna Lloyd Wright and Frank Lloyd Wright now lie together on the grounds of Taliesin West in Arizona, United States.
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