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Nobility murdered during the Revolution
AkshayChavan:
I wanted to know which high ranking nobles were killed during the revolution. From what i see, most of high ranking nobles like Yussupovs, orlov-davydovs, vorontsovs and stroganovs escaped safetly during the revolutions. I know a few who were killed
1) Two sons of Count SD Sheremetev, Boris and Dimitri were murdered at ostafievo.
2) Princess Maria Scherbatoff nee Stroganoff along with her children Alexandra and Vladimir were killed at their estate in ukraine.
3) Prince SS Abamelek-Lazarev was murdered by bolsheviks in caucasus.
4) One of Princes Ourousoff was also killed.
I would like others to add to this list. Did all others manage to escape?
David_Pritchard:
Thousands of nobles died during the October Revolution, and the Civil War and the Stalinist Purges, some additional names for your list:
Prince Mikhail Sergeevich Lopuhin, arrested and shot in the Summer of 1918 in Moscow by the ChKa.
Prince Mikhail Aleksandrovich Golitsyn of the White Cossack Forces. Arrested and shot in 1918.
Prince Konstantin Aleksandrovich Golitsyn, arrested and shot in Kiev, 1931.
Prince Aleksander Aleksandrovich Golitsyn, arrested and shot in Lipetske, 1937.
Prince Dmitri Aleksandrovich Golitsyn, arrested and shot in Dzheskazgan, 1938.
Prince Mikhail Vasilievich Golitsyn, arrested and shot in 1937.
Prince Vladimir Lvovich Golitsyn, shot in 1937.
Prince Vladimir Sergeevich Trubetskoy, shot on 30 October 1937.
Prince Petr Petrovich Urusov, died in a prison camp at Tomsk, 1936.
Prince Andrei Petrovich Urusov, arrested and shot by the NKVD in 1937.
Prince Aleksander Dmitievich Shirinsky-Shihmatov, died at Kuban in 1920 while serving with the White Army.
Prince Andrei Mikhailovich Obolensky, arrested at Orenburg as a counter-revolutionary on 7 September 1937; died 27 November 1937.
Prince Mikhail Fedorovich Obolensky, arrested at Moscow as a counter-revolutionary on 3 February 1937; shot on 2 July 1937.
Prince Aleksander Fedorovich Obolensky, arrested at Saratov as a counter-revolutionary on 28 November 1937; shot on 4 December 1937.
Prince Nikolai Aleksandrovich Obolensky, arrested at Saratov 17 December 1937; shot on 31 December 1937.
Prince Vladimir Vasilievich Obolensky, perished at the hands of the NKVD in 1937.
With a bit more research, I am certain that I could double or triple the numbers of princes killed by the Communists. This of course leaves the largest catagories, the Counts, Barons and ordinary Nobles to be added to the list of the murdered.
David
David_Pritchard:
I have found the names of some additional Princes of the Russian Empire that died at the hands of the Communists:
Prince Oleg Grigorevich Gagarin, disappeared during the Civil War in Vladikavkaz, 1921.
Prince Andrei Andreevich Gagarin, Colonel of the Imperial Life Guards Artillery. Disappeared in 1937.
Prince Petr Andreevich Gagarin, Executed 1938, posthumously rehabilitated.
Prince Leonty Alekseevich Shakhovskoy, Colonel of Cavalry, shot by the Bolsheviks in 1918 at Pyatigorsk.
Prince Vladimir Alekseevich Shakhovskoy, Colonel of Imperial Life Guards and Adjutant to Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich. Shot by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
Daria Yevgeneevna, Countess de Beauharnais, daughter of HSH Prince Yevgeny Nikolaevich Romanovsky, 5th Duke von Leuchtenberg. She died in 1931 at a Soviet prison camp.
Prince Andrei Giorgievich von Leuchtenberg, died in 1919 while serving with the White Army forces at Narva.
David
David_Pritchard:
More princes who died at the hands of the Communists:
Prince Dadash Andreevich Gelovani executed by the ChKa in 1924.
Prince Solomon Gavrilovich Karalovy, shot by the Bolsheviks in 1924.
HSH Nikolai II Nikolaevich, Prince Mingrelsky, arrested and died in Petrogradsky Prison in 1919.
Prince David Nikolaevich Dadiani executed by the Bolsheviks in 1924.
Prince Samson Platonovich Dadiani, perished at the hands of the NKVD in 1937.
Prince Ivan Konstantinovich Dadiani, shot by the Bolsheviks in 1924.
Prince David Konstantinovich Dadiani, shot by the Bolsheviks in 1924.
Prince Islam Janshovich Dadeshkeliani, shot by the NKVD in 1937.
Prince Irakly Giorgivich Amirejibov, shot by the NKVD in 1938.
Prince Yasse Nikolaevich Andronikov, shot by the NKVD in 1937.
Princess Maria Nikolaevna Kavkasidze, disappeared during the Civil War.
Princess Elena Nikolaevna Kavkasidze, died with White Army forces.
Belochka:
Nobility who were not "high ranking" also lost their lives with the encroachment of red terror. It is not fair to isolate one group above the others who could also claim nobility.
Let us not forget those who were imprisoned and forced to remain as stateless citizens for the rest of their lives until they died without their their identity, not in exile, but placed into exile.
It was a slower more agonizing death.
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