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Re: The Paleys
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Re: The Paleys
« Reply #331 on: April 28, 2009, 11:09:04 AM »
Just a remainder after viewing the whole thread : Please, use this topic only for the Paleys - GD Pavel's second family. GDss Maria Pavlovna-younger and her brother GD Dmitriy have their own threads.

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« Reply #332 on: April 28, 2009, 11:33:03 AM »
That last picture courtesy of Sabbatical from "foros dinastia" ;-)

Awesome one. Both ladies looking great ;-)








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« Reply #333 on: June 07, 2009, 09:51:47 AM »
Natalie Paley :

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« Reply #334 on: June 15, 2009, 09:54:44 AM »
A very curious fact about Natalie! I've just started reading "Natalie Paley: Princesse en exil" by Jean Noel Liaut and, in the first pages he talks about a rumor that said that Queen Mary was impress by Natalie's beauty and tried to marry her off with one of her sons!
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« Reply #335 on: June 15, 2009, 11:42:40 AM »

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

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« Reply #336 on: June 19, 2009, 12:22:57 PM »
Natalie Paley with Serge Lifar:



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« Reply #337 on: June 19, 2009, 12:31:48 PM »
And a little p.s. Where did the information about Natalie's supposed rape came from? I couldn't find any references to it in Jean-Noel Liaut's book, unless I've missed something... she did become distant and could only maintain friendships with men who looked physically like her brother Vladimir for a while, but does that necessarily mean that she was sexually assaulted? There is quote that explains her state of mind in the time that followed the events of the revolution, when she entered a private school in Switzerland and couldn't mix with everybody else because she felt different:

"At twelve, French girls were still reading Robinson Crusoe and watching Douglas Fairbanks movies. At twelve, I was taking some bread to my father in jail. How could I have been like them? I was mute, I would not play. But I was reading a lot. I had faced death, so close. My father executed, my brother, my cousins, my uncles, executed, all Romanov blood splashed on my adolescence. This gave me a taste for sad things, poetry, the icy and lightning antechamber of death. Soon, my classmates understood me. And respected the way I was, as strange as it have may seemed."

I may be wrong, of course and my French, I'm afraid, is not what you would call impeccable, but where did that came from?
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« Reply #338 on: June 19, 2009, 03:18:42 PM »
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.
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« Reply #339 on: July 03, 2009, 10:19:59 AM »
"And their love was called - Vladimir"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1x_JyRuFCI

R.I.P Vladimir, who died for love and devotion at a time when the world was filled with hatred and distrust

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« Reply #340 on: July 03, 2009, 11:40:17 AM »
beautiful video!. I tried to post a comment there but i couldnt so, thanks for posting it and thanks for using my colorized picture =D!

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« Reply #341 on: July 07, 2009, 07:01:26 AM »
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.

No, unfortunately it has never been translated into English, which made it a lot harder to understand! Both Irina and Natalia were extremely close to their brother, which may have somehow affected their vision of the world (if that makes any sense). Irina had a particulary close relationship with her father and he doted on her because she reminded him of his own mother, Empress Maria Alexandrovna. Prince Felix Youssupov is also quoted in the book saying that Irina Pavlovna reassembled her grandmother physical. But, anyway, the point is that their deaths during the revolution were hard blows for both sisters, but Irina seems to have dealt with it a little better than Natalia.

As for books about the Paleys, I was surprised to know that there are a few of them. I don't recall all the titles and authors right now, but I will post them latter!
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« Reply #342 on: July 12, 2009, 03:06:18 PM »


With Maurice Chevalier
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« Reply #343 on: July 26, 2009, 03:09:48 AM »


Vladimir Paley:
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Re: The Paleys
« Reply #344 on: August 11, 2009, 09:25:08 AM »
Grand Duke Pavel (can´t find a topic on him alone....)