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Russian Noble Families / Re: Lopukhin-Demidov
« on: July 29, 2015, 02:43:57 PM »Interesting how this family seems to have been caught up in the current Russian succession quarrel:
It would be interesting to know why Grand Duchess MARIA of Russia do not acknowledge the Lopukhin-Demidov family of the House of Demidov. I have been thinking about writing to her office and ask why this is the case. What do you think? I do not see any reason for not accepting the legitimizy of The 4th Prince Lopukhin-Demidov.
I recommend a look at the genealogies of Lopukhin-Demidov at An Online Gotha by Paul Theroff: http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/demidov.html I have sent him corrections about the present family and the parents of The 4th Prince Lopukhin-Demidov.
The Princes Lopukhin are listed as extant, although there never were any standard Princes Lopukhin before the elevation of one line to Most Serene Princes. They were just boyars / nobles and other lines continued to flourish as such, also after the extinction of the agnatic Serene Princes. One of them remained in Russia after the Revolution: Oleg Mikhailovich Lopukhin (1924 - 1993) was a Captain in the Soviet Navy and Head of Arkhangelsk Naval College untill 1985. From 1992 he was a Full member of the Russian Nobility Assembly. His son, "Prince" Vadim Olegovich, with a background in Soviet medicine, is apparantly a leading member of the Russian Nobility Association since 1990 and a close collaborator of Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, acting as "Chief Coordinator of the All-Highest Visits to Russia".
Since this line of the Lopukhins never was princely, it must have been GD MV who has granted him the title he sports and is credited with in various press releases connected to GD MV. Was her reasoning perhaps that since the Princes Demidov of San Donato are extinct in the male line since 1943, the Demidovs in Finland can now revert to being merely Princes Demidov? And that remaining untitled Lopukhins can be raised to the princely rank?
The Russian Princely House of Lopukhin became extinct when His Serene Highness Prince Paul Petrovitch Lopukhin died without legitimate issue in 1873. The title Prince Lopukhin was then handed over to the family Demidov in accordance to primogeniture as Prince Lopukhin-Demidov and the qualification "Serene Highness" by Imperial Ukase 21 January 1876.
The 3rd Prince Lopukhin-Demidov died in New Hampshire 28 September 1995. The office of Grand Duchess MARIA of Russia do not know or ignores that his younger brother Aleksander Demidoff had a son Yrjö ONNI Johannes Demidoff in Helsinki on 23 April 1936. He is the present Prince Lopukhin-Demidov. I seek especially a picture of him so if anyone has a picture then please forward it to me. We are distantly related to each other. Thank you!
When The 3rd Prince Lopukhin-Demidov died in 1995 Grand Duchess MARIA of Russia created a new Prince Lopukhin. I do not give much credit to that as she is not a reigning monarch.
Does anyone here have a picture of him or know where I could find one? You can also send it to me on a Personal Message. I am distantly related to him.