Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia
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| Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia | |
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| Born | March 11, 1892 Nice, France |
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| Died | May 15, 1981 (aged 89) Six-Fours-les-Plages, France |
| Spouse | Prince Alexander Galitzine |
| Parents | Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (father) Grand Duchess Militza(mother). |
Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia (March 11, 1892 - May 15, 1981) was a daughter of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia and his wife Grand Duchess Militza Nicholaevna, born Princess of Montenegro. A great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, she was born in Nice, France and grew up in the last period of Imperial Russia, mostly in Znamenka, her father's summer palace near Peterhof.
Princess Marina was a gifted artist, showing talent for drawing and painting. She studied painting first with a teacher from the senior school in Yalta and then in St Petersburg under professor Kordovsky.[1] Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna suggested Princess Marina as a likely bride to the Duke of Montpesier.[2] During World War I Marina served as a nurse with Caucasian troops near Trabzon.[3] She escaped the Russian Revolution with the rest of her family aboard the British ship the HMS Marlborough in 1919. [4]She married Prince Alexander Galitzine in 1927. She died on May 15, 1981 in Six-Fours-les-Plages, France, aged 89.
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- Zeepvat, Charlotte, The Camera and the Tsars, Sutton Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3049-7.
- Zeepvat, Charlotte, Romanov Autumn, Sutton Publishing, 2000, ISBN 0-7509-2739-9
