Who was Gala, the Russian woman who married Salvador Dali & made him famous?

When one speaks of Gala (with the stress on the second syllable), the first thing many remember is where she came from. Dali's muse was a Russian girl who grew up in Moscow. Her real name was Elena Gomberg-Dyakonova; she was born in Kazan in 1894 and, later, moved with her family to the capital.

At the age of 18, Elena came down with tuberculosis and her family (who were quite wealthy) sent her to the Swiss 'Cla