Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia

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Princess Marina Petrovna
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Spouse Prince Alexander Galitzine
House by marriage
House by birth		 House of Golitsyns

House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
Father Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich
Mother Grand Duchess Militza Nikolaevna
Born (1892-03-11)11 March 1892
Nice, France
Died 15 May 1981(1981-05-15) (aged 89)
Six-Fours-les-Plages, France

Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia (11 March 1892 – 15 May 1981) was a daughter of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia and his wife Grand Duchess Militza Nicholaevna, born Princess of Montenegro. A great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, she was born in Nice and grew up in the last period of Imperial Russia, mostly in Znamenka, her father's summer palace near Peterhof.

Princess Marina was a gifted artist, showing talent for drawing and painting. She studied painting first with a teacher from the senior school in Yalta and then in St Petersburg under professor Kordovsky.1 Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna suggested Princess Marina as a likely bride to the Duke of Montpensier, son of the Count of Paris.2 During World War I Marina served as a nurse with Caucasian troops near Trabzon.3 She escaped the Russian Revolution with the rest of her family aboard the British ship the HMS Marlborough in 1919.4 She married Prince Alexander Galitzine in 1927. She died on 15 May 1981 in Six-Fours-les-Plages, France, aged 89.

Notes

  1. ^ Zeepvat, The Camera and the Tsars, p. 154
  2. ^ Zeepvat, Romanov Autumn, p. 165
  3. ^ Zeepvat, The Camera and the Tsars, p. 203
  4. ^ Zeepvat, The Camera and the Tsars, p. 212

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