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Yes, shes wearing that beautiful ruby + diamond tiaraNo she is not wearing her mothers tiara.She is wearing a slightly different one that was a wedding present from her father in law and was lost in the revolution. Grand Duke Michael Nickolaevitch also gave her a pearl necklace with a monumental sapphire set in diamonds on her marriage.That too was lost.
Here another of the same photoshoot , courtesy of the greek archives
Thankyou.I know Princess Obolenskaya was a childless widow when she left Russia in the Dowager Empresses suite. Although this is not the subject of this thread...as I cannot read Russian...what became of her? Did she remain with the Dowager like Countess Mengden then go to Paris? I would be grateful for information..
As for your reason in acquiring more reading material being to find any documentation of the "tidbits" you have been reading here, I can assure you that you will not find any. Since this is the first time many of them might appear in print, you may consider this forum an original source.
If we speak about the sources in English, well, documentation is poor I agree. But what about such sources as correspondence, in Russian? The source of my 'tidbits' on Olga and Xenia's life in 1919-1940 years are their letters to Princess Alexandra Obolenskaya (nee Countess Apraksina), long-time friend of Empress Maria Fedorovna and Xenia itself. There is a recent publication, in Russian, of this correspondence:
http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/24737492/
and a pdf version
http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/24705089/
the book is unigue, there are many letters of Xenia ( who was closer to Princess even more then the Empress and Olga) and not so much of Olga and MF.
She settled in Paris and remained there till her death in 1940. She tried to earn living by needle work, embroidery and sewing as well as selling her objects de arts (to Queen Mary of England via GDss Xenia).
I only found bare bones:Thankyou...I had the same data myself.
Wladimir Pr Obolensky-Neledinsky-Meletzky (Moscow 31 Mar 1847-Yalta 7 Nov 1891); m.3 Feb 1880 Css Alexandra Alexandrovna Apraxine (St.Petersburg 23 Apr 1852-Paris 3 Jan 1943)
I didn't find any mention of her in the book Former People either. She *was* mentioned briefly in The Russian Court at Sea as she was picked up in the Crimea on the Marlborough and accompanied the Dowager Empress from there. (She was called Aprak by some.). After the Dowager Empress's death, it appears she ended up, like many a Russian exile, in Paris.
I know Princess Obolenskaya was a childless widow when she left Russia in the Dowager Empresses suite. Although this is not the subject of this thread...as I cannot read Russian...what became of her? Did she remain with the Dowager like Countess Mengden then go to Paris? I would be grateful for information..
As for your reason in acquiring more reading material being to find any documentation of the "tidbits" you have been reading here, I can assure you that you will not find any. Since this is the first time many of them might appear in print, you may consider this forum an original source.
If we speak about the sources in English, well, documentation is poor I agree. But what about such sources as correspondence, in Russian? The source of my 'tidbits' on Olga and Xenia's life in 1919-1940 years are their letters to Princess Alexandra Obolenskaya (nee Countess Apraksina), long-time friend of Empress Maria Fedorovna and Xenia itself. There is a recent publication, in Russian, of this correspondence:
http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/24737492/
and a pdf version
http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/24705089/
the book is unigue, there are many letters of Xenia ( who was closer to Princess even more then the Empress and Olga) and not so much of Olga and MF.
Minny got some nice pieces. I wonder if she got them out when she left Russia ?Minnie when leaving for England in 1914 did not take the bulk of her jewels and they were thus lost in the revolution.
LOLThanks. Too bad I cannot read the three books in German
Learning a language usually goes rather quickly if one is learning it for a specific end, especially if it's an enjoyable interest, like royalty. Perhaps getting a passive understanding of written German is no harder than writing 17.000 APF posts bemoaning the lack of English-language information about German royals?
Duchess Anastasia von Mecklenburg-Schwerin with her husband Duke Friedrich Ferdinand von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg wearing the tiara that Grand Duchess Alexandra wore:A great find...as Alexandra MS was not resplendent with gems after WW2 and her daughter in law Barbara only seems to have worn jewels inherited from her own grandmother this makes one think that the bulk of the MS gems were left in Ludwiglust/Schwerin when the family fled ahead of the Soviet but Anastasia being already married and living in West Germany had received the aquamarine tiara (which was reputedly her fathers wedding gift to her mother and from Faberge) on her marriage.
She looked beautiful in that dress. I read the Empress Frederick helped arranged her dress and trousseau.Isn't that something a mother always does
That was a private visit. Count Alfred Potocki of Łańcut - one of the wealthiest man in prewar Poland - send a private invitation to Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, but they were too busy, so Duke and Duchess of Kent came to Poland instead of the royal couple. Besides Łańcut and Kraków, they also visited Katowice, where lived Zofia Poklewska Koziełł - a friend of the Duchess, which she knew from the time when she lived in Paris.Zofia and her family including her aged mother Baroness de Stockel later made their home in a cottage at Coppins...
I found the same clip on British Pathe:
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/duke-and-duchess-of-kent-in-poland
Polish monarchists wanted to make Duke Of Kent King Of Poland:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/68442639
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/57632195
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2810551
That was a private visit. Count Alfred Potocki of Łańcut - one of the wealthiest man in prewar Poland - send a private invitation to Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, but they were too busy, so Duke and Duchess of Kent came to Poland instead of the royal couple. Besides Łańcut and Kraków, they also visited Katowice, where lived Zofia Poklewska Koziełł - a friend of the Duchess, which she knew from the time when she lived in Paris.Alfred Potocki wrote fascinating memoird "Master of Lancut" .His flight from Lancut just before the Soviet arrival was legendary...taking with him via Vienna to Vaduz over 60 railway cars of the amazing contents of the castle. Alfreds mother "Betka" nee Princess Elisabeth Radziwill was the hostess during the visit.
I found the same clip on British Pathe:
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/duke-and-duchess-of-kent-in-poland
Polish monarchists wanted to make Duke Of Kent King Of Poland:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/68442639
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/57632195
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2810551
