Thanks for the information Lisa. Is there anything in any depth about Princess Paley and GD Paul's second family?
Frederic Mitterrand has written a book called "Mémoires d'exil". It's about the royal families after the WW1. I found my informations here.
http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2266104519/qid=1093274128/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_8_1/171-3726130-1171452
http://www.alapage.com/mx/?id=87491054807505&donnee_appel=KELKO&tp=F&type=1&l_isbn=2266104519&devise=&fulltext=&sv=X_L
Natalia was raped?!?! oh my goddness she would had be 16! poor N.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/SMROD/Royalty%202/ArchduchessIsabellaofAustria.jpg)
Isabella wearing her amazing parure of huge peridots and diamonds and the enseble that I mentioned previously.....Sadly the image that I have is rather small - anyone have it larger?
is quite similar in style to Miechen's pearl and diamond circle tiara and Nancy Leeds' pearl and diamond tiara. Apparently, whilst in Paris, GDss Vladimir left her tiara at Cartier to be cleaned at which time they took the opportunity to make copies of it; thus it may have been the inspiration for the designs of the Paley and the Leeds tiaras.
Anyone know anything about her lawsuit to retrieve her belongings in Russia?
Did she have children with Pistolkors?
She had three children with Mr. Pistolkors: (from what i know of; they were born in the 1880s or early 1890s)
Alexander Marianna Olga
I'm at my Aunt's house for the rest of the week :-/, so when i get home ;i'll chick again.
There are still many von Pistolkors living in Estonia and Latvia. The von Pistolkors mansion in the center of Tartu can be seen at the link below:
http://linnamuuseum.tartu.ee/en/museum/history.html
Princess Paley's youngest daughter from her first marriage, Marianne von Pistohlkors, was born on 30 June 1890 at St. Petersburg. On 30 October 1917 at Tsarskoye-Selo, she was married to Nikolai Konstantinovich von Zarnekau, Count von Zarnekau, the son of Konstantin Friedrich Peter von Holstein-Gottorp, Duke of Oldenburg and Agrippina Djaparidze. The couple were divorced in 1930.
Below is a link to a story about Princess Paley's grand-daughter by her son Alexander von Pistolkors and his wife Alexandra. The text is in Swedish but there are some pre-1917 photographs:
http://www.viken.cc/b20.html
David
PS: Marianne von Pistolhkors, later Countess von Zarkenkau died on 14 May 1976 at New York City.
Princess Paley's youngest daughter from her first marriage, Marianne von Pistohlkors, was born on 30 June 1890 at St. Petersburg. On 30 October 1917 at Tsarskoye-Selo, she was married to Nikolai Konstantinovich von Zarnekau, Count von Zarnekau, the son of Konstantin Friedrich Peter von Holstein-Gottorp, Duke of Oldenburg and Agrippina Djaparidze. The couple were divorced in 1930.
What made the Prince Regent of Bavaria create Olga a countess?
I wonder where the "Paley" title came from. It does not sound Russian....
His nickname was "Bot'ka" according to GDss Maria Pavlovna-younger.
I think it is sad that the Paley family did not flourish and produce descendants.... :'(
Why did the Prince Regent of Bavaria give her a title?
Indeed, and by the way, who is the current Count/ Countess Hohenfelsen? is Prince Michael Feodorovich the current count Hohenfelsen?
The girls spent most of their childhood in Paris where their parents were in exile. They lived in Russia for a short time during WWI until they needed to escape the Bolsheviks in 1918. They fled via Finland, where they were eventually reunited with their mother, Princess Paley, and able to return to Paris.
Irina married her cousin, Prince Feodor Alexandrovich, which made her a niece by marriage to Nicholas and Alexandra. They had two children, Michael and Irina, and had descendants from both. By the way, when I read on another thread that there were no Paley descendants, I was going to point out that due to these descendants, that's not strictly true.
Natalia had a career as an actress and model, her last husband was a theatrical producer. I have heard from this man's family, and they arranged her funeral and burial. Natalia Paley had no children.
Does anyone know if Prince Vladimir Paley had any romantic interests?
No it was not question of what you think...Michel was a perfect gentleman, this solution was due to material help towards Tatiana. I can't say anything more about his son's very sad death for a father, because it was too recent... and we must respect on this forum private life of people who proved to be absolutely respectable to such an extent that they found "different" solutions to very difficult situations and who are still alive...
I would think that the title is extinct, as it was German and could not pass through women.
Well, the title was created for a woman; Mrs Olga Pistolkoffrs, later on, she passes her title to her children, therefore if the title was created for a woman it might be logic that could pass through women.
Thus there are descendents of the 1st Countess of Hohenfelsen who can claim their right to this title.
Well, the title was created for a woman; Mrs Olga Pistolkoffrs, later on, she passes her title to her children, therefore if the title was created for a woman it might be logic that could pass through women.
Thus there are descendents of the 1st Countess of Hohenfelsen who can claim their right to this title.
What I do know is that the Tsar regularized their styles when they did. The wife was henceforth known as Princess Paley, and never again as Countess Hohenfelson, which I think if pretty good evidence that it was a style, not a title. Their son Vladimir was known as Prince Paley and their two daughters as Princess (First Name) Paley.
Thank you Lisa Davidson,
What about of the title of Prince Paley, was this a title or a style? If this is a princely title. Who is the current Prince Paley? The Romanov- Paley branch is not extinct and still they can also claim this title.
I think there is some confusion between titles and styles. The reason Paul's second wife needed a style - a way of being addressed - is that her husband's Imperial name was not available to her due to the difference in their ranks. She could be neither HIH The Grand Duchess Paul nor Mrs. Romanov. Thus, the style of Countess Hohenfelson (not 1st Countess of) was given to her so that she could be known by some name. However, there was no title to be passed down the line to her descendants.
Her son by the Grand Duke was at that time legally still the son of her former husband, having been born before the divorce. Their daughters were still unborn. I have no idea what the Paley girls were called before they returned to Russia during WWI.
What I do know is that the Tsar regularized their styles when they did. The wife was henceforth known as Princess Paley, and never again as Countess Hohenfelson, which I think if pretty good evidence that it was a style, not a title. Their son Vladimir was known as Prince Paley and their two daughters as Princess (First Name) Paley.
I have a question about Vladimir Paley: Was his nickname really Bodya?
(source:http://www.nikolairomanov.com/doc/iv13pre/index.html)
It's not quite true that Natalia Paley was alone at the end of her life. I have letters from her husband's family indicating that they looked after her. When she died, they took care of her funeral. In contrast to many of the exiled Romanovs, Natalia had both family and fortune.
But Fimousse, I really can’t say that I see the connection with the Grand Duchess Marie.
Thank you Griffh for your point of view. I didn't know that Hofmannstahl had such an interesting daughter.
As to Cocteau, he was older and a grown-up. He has been socializing with this elegant set of the twenties for a long time. He was already connected with Diaghilev and the artistic "salons" BEFORE WW I. He had already a reputation, a certain fame, and not only : he had a special feeling for connecting with great artists of the time: Picasso, Dali, etc... and Chanel of course. so I think that Nathalie was a "prey" for him.
Raimund, as you quote it, seemed rather a victim of his own infatuation to his idolized love , as Nathalie was a sort of victim of Cocteau's ambition.
As far as Gdss Marie is concerned, I can say that of course she was different in character from her half sister, but they both socialized in Paris in the same set at the beginning. Even if Nathalie was more naïve and younger than Marie.
Nathalie always tried to be an actress ( after being a model) and was helped by the men she matched with. She seduced them but not directly on purpose, with always a sort of ethereal flavour. These men, as I wrote in the previous post, had to be physically NOT involved. She "played" seduction but never "acted" seduction ( that's why perhaps she did'nt succeed in being a first rank actress). So I see a difference with Marie who didn't search for men's support and relied on her own forces. But at the end they both escaped love...
Nathalie never spoke of the past and wanted to forget anything connected with her Russian past. Of course she failed...Her silence was too eloquent. Her scars were so deep that they "speak" for herself. She was mostly raised in Paris and had a very happy and high spirited life with her parents in France. Their return to Russia was linked with a certain humiliation of being the children of Olga, divorced, mundane, and despised by less brilliant but more well-born ladies of the court. And secondly the atrocities of their escape and the assassinations of her father and brother were associated with her native country. All that she wanted to forget about.
Gdss Marie, who was very proud of her Russian past, on the contrary was lost by the disappearance of Imperial Russia, lost by the exile of her father, lost when being a mother in a foreign boring country and narrow minded Swedish court. She lacked maternal love, as she never knew her own mother and was incapable of being a mother herself.
She was more pragmatic than Nathalie and ran her own fashion business, but she soon got bored, and became a photographer, always running after an ideal of beauty as her half sister did with being an actress. They shared this quest for a an ideal world of elegance and art, because they had so much in common after the brutality ( so to speak...) they witnessed in their younger years.
Their lives were a mix of running after an ideal and escaping any links.
Sorry for my bad English and thank you again with the explanations of the international set you shared with us.
She did not mention it in her own memoirs, but when HSH Princess Olga Paley escaped from Russia after the execution of her husband, she was suffering from untreated breast cancer. She underwent very serious surgery almost immediately after arriving in Finland, and was nearly a year in recovering. The disease recurred and was the eventual cause of her death in 1929. There does not seem to be an end to the tragedy that poor woman suffered!In 1927..Olga already sickening again..went to London to try & recover the contents of her Tsarskoe selo home..which were being sold en bloc in Berlin by the Soviets....she behaved with immense dignity but lost the case..a hard blow both to her morale & financially....Life was very bitter at the end for this charming woman..
This information was related by GD Marie Pavlova in her second book, A Princess In Exile.
Yes, I do wonder what happened to Princess Paley's papers. From what I can recall, she left a few letters from Vladimir in her old home, or that it somehow ended up getting lost there during the whole chaos, and that she had asked her daughters to find some of his lost works/letters. Really sad. Does anyone know if Vladimir and Dmitri got along, or eventually became close? They were brothers after all. I read somewhere on this board that Vladimir wrote pamphlets against Alix- is that true? He seems like one of those really gentle, kind guys. But i don't know much about him, unfortunately. :\
I'm curious about the origin of their surname. Nicholas II granted it to Paul Alexandrovich's children but it doesn't sound very Russian.
I always found it a sad irony that Paul (and Michael for that matter) should have been allowed back into Russia to live at the worst time. Had their exile been complete (like 'Miche-Miche' in England) they would've survived. At the time it probably seemed like a great gift to be allowed to resume their life in their homeland.
Wonderful pics Nadya and Alexandre64, thanks to you !!!
But, any photo of the elder sister of Natalie, Irene ?
The one with Dmitri- Also on the left, the lady is Princess Nicholas of Greece, Grand Duchess Helen!
I think it is two brothers from Kyrill.
Alexandre
Do you think that if Nicholas II had not welcomed them back to Russia and the Paley family remained in exile, that Vladimir, Irina, and Natalie would have been known as Count or Countess Hohenfelsen?
Do you think that if Nicholas II had not welcomed them back to Russia and the Paley family remained in exile, that Vladimir, Irina, and Natalie would have been known as Count or Countess Hohenfelsen?
Well, I just happened to come across this entry on www.thepeerage.com:
Vladimir Pavlovich Hohenfelsen, Count Hohenfelsen was born on 9 January 1897 at Paris, France.1 He was also reported to have been born on 9 January 1897 at St. Petersburg, Russia. He was the son of Pavel Aleksandrovich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia and Olga Valerianovna Karnovich. He died on 17 July 1918 at age 21 executed by the Bolsheviks by being thrown down a mineshaft.1
Vladimir Pavlovich Hohenfelsen, Count Hohenfelsen gained the title of Count Hohenfelsen.1 He was created Prince Vladimir Paley in 1904.
So there's at least ONE site which maintains that Vladimir/Volodia held the title of Count Hohenfelsen. The same page lists his sisters without the surname Hohenfelsen. Is it possible that Grand Duke Pavel/Paul requested a title for his wife, as well as his son? It actually makes sense, as Volodia's contemporaries would most likely have held titles of nobility or royalty of some kind. His sisters would have had the chance to gain titles by marriage, but it doesn't work that way for men.
The reference to Volodia becoming Prince Vladimir Paley in 1904 has to wrong. Possibly a typograpical error, and should read 1914? EDIT: I just realized it should probably read "after 1904."
This is a link to the entire page: http://www.thepeerage.com/p10200.htm#i101999 Scroll down about halfway to find the entry.
Irina at her wedding in 1923 with Theodor Alexandrovich.
From l. to r.: Dmitri Pavlovich, Xenia, Theodor Alexandrovich, Irina Pavlovna, Alexander Mikhailovich, Olga Paley and Maria Pavlovna.
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HERMANAS DE LA CARIDAD
Hermanas de la caridad, ángeles terrenos,
buenas y gentiles, un poco tristes,
vosotras, bálsamo derramado sobre los corazones pacientes,
vosotras, amigas luminosas, regalo de Dios.
A vosotras – bendiciones, hermanas de las almas cansadas,
rosas florecidas, allí, en el campo de batalla,
y en la radiantez de las cruces, el brillo – brillo rubí,
las plegarias tranquilamente tomadas de las heridas...
Crimea. Junio de 1915.
OOH, what Beautiful image of Princess Irene!!! Where, then, but did you found?
Hello,
What happened to the first husband of Princess Paley after divorce and after the revolution?
Irene and Dimitri:
(http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj213/Alexandre64_2007/Paley/vlcsnap-212735.png)
But are there any photos of Irene with her son Michel ?
Can someone explain me the difference of a Style and a noble title? I don't understand why the title of countess Hohenfelesn was a merely style and not a noble title granted by a sovereign king to the morganatic wife of Grand Duke Paul.
Beautiful portrait
Marianne managed to flee Soviet Russia?
She was Countess von Zarnekau?
Does anybody have photos of Natalia's second husband John Chapman Wilson ?There are photos of Wilson in at least one of the biographies of Cole Porter whose circle the Wilsons moved.
And of Irina's second husband the Comte de Montbrison ? And his biological daughter Irene Feodorovitch ?
Thanks in advance.
(http://i713.photobucket.com/albums/ww139/Romanov_06/eulaliapcsspaleyjr41.jpg)Princess Paley is wearing her diamond diadem (centre pearshaped stone 27 carats) as a corsage garland and her diamond and pearl stomacher brooch as a hat badge..both items were by Cartier.The occassion was a fancy dress ball given by Countess de Yturbe in Paris
I didn't know there was a book about her, I guess it's never been translated into English. I liked the quote you posted from the book. Her brother of course was a poet, and some of his poems earlier on this thread, aren't so different from the perspective she expressed in that quote when she mentions" sad things, poetry", etc, although he didn't survive the Revolution.
GD Pavel Alexandrovich
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/2369/59762728.jpg (http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/2369/59762728.jpg)
Volodya
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/2179/vladpalei3.jpg (http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/2179/vladpalei3.jpg)
Thank you. I have been there before.
But it seems his personality and such is still very vague to me.
Do you know if there is more insightful information on this Prince?
where in the world did jean noel liaut hear that Vladimir was spoiled?
I wonder was Vladimir close to Maria Pavlona jr?
His mother Princess Paley, seems like Maria, but disliked Dmitri.
where in the world did jean noel liaut hear that Vladimir was spoiled?
He was spoilt as a child,what's wrong with it? That doesn't mean he was a nasty boy or a digusting young man. Many children, especially those born of a great love of the parents, are spoilt. GDss Maria Pavlovna in her memoirs admitted that her half-brother was very charming and spoilt.
I wonder was Vladimir close to Maria Pavlona jr?
His mother Princess Paley, seems like Maria, but disliked Dmitri.
You know I don't have an impression that Olga Paley liked Maria, she mentions step-daughter only once in her memoirs and somewhat passing reference. Maria with her conflicting character was not an easy daughter and step-daughter, but she obviously really was fascinated with Vladimir and his talent.
where in the world did jean noel liaut hear that Vladimir was spoiled? i just find it ridiculous, i've read a lot of his poetry and i find it frankly stupid that anyone would say Vladimir was spoiled, his poems are very humble imo and showing of a personality that is the opposite of arrogant.
I wonder was Vladimir close to Maria Pavlona jr?
His mother Princess Paley, seems like Maria, but disliked Dmitri.
I wonder was Vladimir close to Maria Pavlona jr?
His mother Princess Paley, seems like Maria, but disliked Dmitri.
dmitri didn't like her either, i have read his letters to tsar nicholas about not being sorry he never sees her or her family...
I wonder was Vladimir close to Maria Pavlona jr?
His mother Princess Paley, seems like Maria, but disliked Dmitri.
dmitri didn't like her either, i have read his letters to tsar nicholas about not being sorry he never sees her or her family...
It would be interesting to read those letters... I never felt there was any special animosity between them. I actually think Dmitri thought very well of her. At least it was the impression I got from this part of her memoirs:
During our stay at Mohileff the Grand Duke Dimitri, who was on duty with the Emperor, often came to lunch and. dine with us. Very well informed about war matters and what was in progress at the headquarters of the General Staff, endowed with remarkable intelligence and with the faculty of grasping facts and drawing from them the necessary conclusion, this young man of twenty-five was a mature man and a shrewd observer. He also recognised the imminent danger which the country was running, and he had conversations on the subject more than once with the Emperor . and with his own father. I remember that one day at Mohileff, at tea time, he said to me:
"Ah, mamotchka (a tender diminutive of mama), if only you knew what is going to happen!"
My gosh. I had no idea Vladimir was considered spoiled and such, let alone unpleasant to others outside his family. Thank you for that new information!
I know this is a morbid question to ask but, is there any surviving photographs of his corpse. It seems there are photos of the others but I never came across a post mortem of Prince Paley. Does anyone know any information regarding this?
where in the world did jean noel liaut hear that Vladimir was spoiled? i just find it ridiculous, i've read a lot of his poetry and i find it frankly stupid that anyone would say Vladimir was spoiled, his poems are very humble imo and showing of a personality that is the opposite of arrogant.
And I've just found a picture I'd never seen before of Grand Duke Paul:
(http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/2258/paulot.jpg) (http://img301.imageshack.us/i/paulot.jpg/)
Along with further information about Princess Paley's relationship with Empress Alexandra, which indeed didn't seem to be very colourful. This is an excerpt from "The Court of the Last Tsar" by Greg King:
"Empress Alexandra dictated further humiliation: the countess could be presented to members of the Romanov family, but not formally through their official suites, as ordinary aristocratic women were - only in private and only by her husband. She also required, when visiting the imperial palaces, to leave her card rather than sign her name in the guest-book, as were other ladies of the court. Such deliberated slights left Paul Alexandrovich angry. He latter spoke of the many "insults at the hands of my Imperial relatives and their satellites, mostly men and women of social degeneracy and referred to his uncle, the emperor [a little error as he was his nephew] as one of the principal persecutors of myself and my family", terming him "a political imbecile".
Which leads me to the conclusion that uncle and nephew were not in very good terms either... :D
On the subject of the Pistolkors coat-of-arms, which came first, the name or the arms?I think they came at the same time - in 1645, when Queen Kristina of Sweden ennobled the Lieutenant Jöran Olufsson of the Karelian Cavalry. He, like so many Scandinavians ennobled by letters patent, obviously emulated the "armorially derived surname" of the ancient Scandinavian noble families like Vasa, Oxenstierna, Rosenkrantz, Gyldenstierna, Gedde, Banér, Bielke, Sparre, Stenbock, Galtung, Natt och Dag, Leijonhuvud etc. But simultaneously he needed arms to derive that surname from!
1913-14 Павел Александрович
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HRH Pavl Alexandrovich, Prince Peter Alexandrovich, Countess Shuvalova, Klenmikel, Duke Dona-Shlobittyen, Prince Trubyetskaya, Duchess Pistolkers. . .A. P. Polostov, Count Starzhenski, Prince Bargration, Count Totylebyen, Grabbe, Kaufmann, Nikolaev, Rayevskaya, Neklyoodov, Lazareva.
Sorry if i missed a few it's hard to read some of it. . .looks like Paul and his wife Olga were there. Can anyone find them in either pictures?
HRH Pavl Alexandrovich, Prince Peter Alexandrovich, Countess Shuvalova, Klenmikel, Duke Dona-Shlobittyen, Prince Trubyetskaya, Duchess Pistolkers. . .A. P. Polostov, Count Starzhenski, Prince Bargration, Count Totylebyen, Grabbe, Kaufmann, Nikolaev, Rayevskaya, Neklyoodov, Lazareva.
Sorry if i missed a few it's hard to read some of it. . .looks like Paul and his wife Olga were there. Can anyone find them in either pictures?
Thank you Sasha! The name Kleinmichael reminds me of Princess Paley writing about Vladimir being allowed to attend a ball (along with his parents) given by Countess Kleinmichael when he was 17, which would make it 1914, it was a costume party like this one and he was wearing, to quote Princess Paley, "coat of white cloth, embroidered in gold, and close-fitting, showed off his slender figure. Loose trousers made of blue silk, boots of soft red shagreen, and a cap of white cloth with wide bands of sable". maybe he is in this picture as well?
Does anybody have a picture of the Paley arms? (To be found in Часть 20 Общего гербовника дворянских родов Всероссийской империи, стр. 1 = Part 20 of the General Armorial of Noble Families of the All-Russian Empire, page 1)I am still so curious about their arms. If somebody knows, please post! :-)
I would venture a translation, but my guess is that it would make both Natalie and Cocteau come out of their graves and kill me, so I'll keep it simple. Cheesy
Agonie
Elle disait:"je veux par les
Sentiers ombrageux m'en aller
Pour ne voir et n'aimer personne...
Me sentir delivrer enfin
Et n'entendre dans le lointain
Que la vielle cloche qui sonne...
Fuyant tes sournoises revanches
"Je veux me perdre dans les branches
Et tu ne me retiendras pas...
Tu me quitteras à l'orée
Ecoutant, avec l'adorée
S'eloigner le bruit de ses pas"...
W.Hohenfelsen
St Petersbourg
Novembre 1913.
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I think they must be of Vladimir in Corps des Pages uniform.
Ann
Indeed.
Does anyone know who is the thickset elderly gentleman in the picture with Vladimir in corps des Pages summer shirt?
Ann
Yes, plaase look hear you will find more http://www.nashaepoha.ru/?page=obj85299 (http://www.nashaepoha.ru/?page=obj85299)
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Nathalie and Irina Paley
Olga Paley
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if this wasnt a ultra busy forum, i think mods would have more time to delete repeated images as i do in the forums where i moderate.
Really?. Well maybe because the forum is so big and has sometimes different mods for each royal section i ve never noticed that. Its nice to know that someone is doing the job (as Alixz )
A fabulous Mainbocher creation! :)Noel Coward was never married.Cole Porters wife Linda Lee was a great friend of Nathalie Paley.
Here's another one around the same time, but a little more relaxed. It shows Natalie on vacation in Jamaica with her second husband, John Chapman Wilson, his supposed lover, Noël Coward, as well as Coward's wife who would become one of Natalie's closest friend. I'm not sure who the other man is.
(http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/OgAAAGIA1EkjLLNyRA8ADZTJHUoXeF27CmIQV1YjdF3KdnOAYGNgvH9Us-JfgKqHaG36cEA4E1G93OoiYbuHDVHBNBAAm1T1UBg-UNycA1hhq9MEdSVnacvJuvG-.jpg)
Noël Coward was actually inspired by Natalie to create the character of Joanna in one of his short stories, "Nature Studies".
Natalia & Brian Aherne
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/2540/1942250.jpg
A fabulous Mainbocher creation! :)
Here's another one around the same time, but a little more relaxed. It shows Natalie on vacation in Jamaica with her second husband, John Chapman Wilson, his supposed lover, Noël Coward, as well as Coward's wife who would become one of Natalie's closest friend. I'm not sure who the other man is.
(http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/OgAAAGIA1EkjLLNyRA8ADZTJHUoXeF27CmIQV1YjdF3KdnOAYGNgvH9Us-JfgKqHaG36cEA4E1G93OoiYbuHDVHBNBAAm1T1UBg-UNycA1hhq9MEdSVnacvJuvG-.jpg)
Noël Coward was actually inspired by Natalie to create the character of Joanna in one of his short stories, "Nature Studies".
dear Sveta, do you have to photo? :)
Olga's children remained in Russia with their father. I don't believe it was ever even an option for her to take her children into exile with her.
Beautiful portrait
Marianne managed to flee Soviet Russia?
Yes, she died in 1976, though I can't remember exactly there.
Olga's children remained in Russia with their father. I don't believe it was ever even an option for her to take her children into exile with her.
Did they have any relationship with their step-siblings Marie Pavlovna and Dmitri? I was surprised to read that Marianne was present, along with Dmitri, at Rasputin's murder.