Alfonso 4 One of the Picasso favorite pastimes was during the first winter of the First World War was learning Russian. "It was a fasicination with Russia and mostly a fascination with the Barones Helen d"Oettingen. " Part f Picasso seductiveness was his willingness to be seduced, and he and the Barones spent many long evenings together, absorbed, as far as the world was concerned, in advancing his knowledge of Russia" (Cooper 15). At the same time when Picasso was having one of his many flings, Eva became very sick. When Eva was hospitalized, that was the first time Picasso was alone in years. He went to see her everyday at the hospital, but he needed someone to comfort him during his lonely nights. He found someone to comfort him during his lonely nights. Gaby Lespinasse was her name. A beautiful twenty-seven year old Parisian. December 14, 1915, Eva dies. "My poor Eva is dead," he wrote to Gertrude Stein. " It was a great sorrow she was always so good to me." Ever since his little sister had so suddenly died, it seemed that death always winning." (Huffington 52). This was Picasso saddest Christmas of his life. After Eva's death Picasso met Olga Koklova, she was the daughter of a colonel in the Imperial Russian Army and had been bornin in Niezin, in the ukraine. Picassso had always had a fascination with Russian things. On July 12, 1918 Picasso married Olga. On February 4, 1921, Olga gave birth to a baby boy. They named him Paulo. Paulo was one of Picasso favorite subjects for many years. He first sketched him on the day he was born, and he continued and paint pictures of Paulo while he grew up. In 1927, Picasso met Marie-Therese, who would later give birth to his daughter. On September 5, 1935 Marie-Therese gave birth to a girl. This was Picasso second child by a different women. " The baby was given the name of her father's dead sister, Maria de Alfonso 5 LaConcpcion, but on her birth certificate the identity of the father was declared unknown"(Huffington 54).