- Stella Arbenina published her memoirs in 1930 called "Through Terror to Freedom", in which she narrates about her experiences during the Russian Revolution.
- After the emigration Stella Arbenina appeared at theaters in Tallin and Tartu and in 1921 she went to Berlin.
- The actress Stella Arbenina was born as Stella Zoe Whishaw in St. Petersburg. She grew up in Russia and got married with Baron Paul Meyendorff in 1907. Her husband served as a Captain for the Army of Tsar Nicholas II. When the Russian Revolution broke out they lost her belongings and got arrested. Thanks to the intervention of the Baltic Germans committee they were released again and were able to leave Russia in 1918.
- She had three children: George, Helen and Irene.
- She went to London in 1923 where she continued her acting career both on stage and in movies.
- Born Stella Zoe Whishaw in St. Petersburg to an Anglo-Russian family who had made their home in Russia for several generations and James Whishaw, a British businessman in St Petersburg, who published his memoirs as A history of the Whishaw family in London in 1935.
- When the Russian Revolution broke out they lost her belongings and got arrested. Thanks to the intervention of the Baltic Germans committee they were released again and were able to leave Russia in 1918.
- During the Russian Revolution the family suffered greatly under the Bolsheviks. Their possessions were seized and they were imprisoned.
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