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Vladimir Galitzine
Prince Vladimir Emanuelovich Galitzine (17 June – 15 July ) was a Russian émigré who lived in England. He was the Chairman of the Russian Society of Support to Russian Emigrants in England.
Early life
Galitzine was born on 17 June in St. Petersburg, Russia.[1] He was one of four children born of Prince Emanuel Vasilievich Galitzine (–) and, his second wife, Ekaterina Nikolaevna Gordeeva.
His father served in the Life Guards Horse-Grenadier Regiment.
Vladimir and his elder brother, Nikolai, became orphans at a very early age and were brought up by their maternal uncle, Nikolai Gordeev and Valentina Sergeevna (née Ushakova) as they had no children of their own. Gordeev served as vice-governor of Riazan, governor of the Polish town of Płock, and governor of Kursk from until his death in After Gordeev's death, Valentina Sergeevna went to the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent (founded by Grand DuchessElizabeth Feodorovna) and gave the Yakshino estate in Tula to Prince Nikolai and Prince Vladimir.
His paternal grandparents were Prince Vasili Sergeevich Galitzine, aide-de-camp to Emperor Alexander I (and a son of Prince Segei Ivanovich Galitzine), and Countess Adelaïda Pavlovna Stroganova (a daughter of Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov and Sophie Stroganova (née Princess Golitysn) and granddaughter of Prince Vladimir Borisovich Golitsyn and Natalya Golitsyna (née Countess Chernyshyova), who was the inspiration for The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin).
In , his grandmother inherited the Maryino Estate, a vast estate in the province of Novgorod (today the Tosno district in Leningrad region), from her mother.
Prince nicholas galitzine wikipedia actor Notes [ edit ]. Branch Alexeevich [ edit ]. He played a wide array of roles as an up-and-coming actor Stefania M. British Vogue.The estate was later inherited by her eldest son Prince Pavel Vasilievich Galitzine and his descendants.[2]
Career
In , Prince Galitzine graduated with honours from the Imperial Lyceum in Moscow. He then moved to St. Petersburg and enlisted as a volunteer in the Horse-Guards Regiment of The Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna;[3] soon he passed his exams and become an officer.
On the eve of the World War I, he was invited to become aide-de-camp to the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, commander in chief of the Imperial Russian Army up until , then Viceroy to the Caucasus. Galitzine emigrated from post Revolutionary Russia in June , arranged by his aunt, Princess Helen of Saxe-Altenburg on a British Naval vessel HMS Grafton from Novorossiysk (accompanied by the HMS Marlborough in which the Tsar's sister, Grand Duchess Xenia and her children, and the Empress DowagerMaria Feodorovna were on), arriving in Taranto, Italy and gradually making their way as a family to Rome, Paris and eventually arriving in London in July [4]
In order to support his family, he "proceeded to make a livelihood out of a hobby in which he had long qualified as a connoisseur",[5] by setting up an Art and Antiques shop in Berkeley Street, in Mayfair, of which Queen Mary was a regular customer.
The family were nationalised as British in He became known as a leader of the White Russian émigré colony in London.[1][6] They initially settled at Coulsdon, Surrey then Nevern Square before they began renting the Georgian country house Chessington Hall in Surrey (the home from which Frances Burney wrote Evelina in ),[7] in They stayed for fourteen years before moving into a house at Croxted Road in West Dulwich, London.[4]
Personal life
In , Prince Galitzine was married to Countess Ekaterina "Katia" Georgievna Carlow (–).
Nicholas galitzine wikipedia actor Seeing their faces and feeling their satisfaction warmed my heart and is a moment that will stay with me throughout my career. Here's a baby Nicholas with his mom:. I mean, people who also work in the industry get it, but the job is definitely not conducive to nourishing relationships. He played football soccer and rugby growing up, before a damaged rotator cuff made him take a break from sports.Born at Oranienbaum, Russia, Katia was the eldest daughter of the morganatic marriage of Duke Georg Alexander of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Countess Natalia Feodorovna Vanljarskya,[4] she was also distantly related to the Princess Marina, the Duchess of Kent.[8] Together, they were the parents of:
- Nikolai "Nicholas" Vladimirovich Galitzine (–),[4] who married Elizabeth Branch, a daughter of Cyril Denzil Branch, in [9] They divorced in and he married Anita Frisch, a daughter of Harald Frisch,[10] in [11]
- George Vladimirovich Galitzine (–),[12] who married Baroness Anne Marie von Slatin, a daughter of Maj.-Gen.
Sir Rudolf von Slatin, in [13] He later married British fashion model Jean Dawnay in [4]
- Emanuel Vladimirovich Galitzine (–), who married Gwendoline Rhodes, a daughter of Capt. Stanley Rhodes of Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland, in [4] His Obituary with details of his family escape from Russia and his part in WW2 as a volunteer during The Winter War in Finland shown in the Picture post magazine[14] and his time as a spitfire pilot is found in The Daily Telegraph 9th Jan [15]
After his first wife was killed in October by a bomb during the first days of The Blitz in World War II,[7] he married Mabel Iris (née FitzGeorge) George (), widow of Robert Shekelton Balfour and daughter of Col.
George FitzGeorge, from whom Mabel was descended from King George III through the king's grandson, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, and his mistress Sarah Fairbrother.[16] From her first marriage, she was the mother of Sir Victor FitzGeorge-Balfour.[17]
Prince Galitzine died on 15 July in a nursing home in London.[18] He was buried at Brompton Cemetery in West Brompton.[1] His widow died in London on 13 April [4]