Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia

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Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia

Born March 11, 1892(1892-03-11)
Nice, France
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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  1. ^ Zeepvat, The Camera and the Tsars, p. 154
  2. ^ Zeepvat, Romanov Autumn, p. 165
  3. ^ Zeepvat, The Camera and the Tsars, p. 203
  4. ^ Zeepvat, The Camera and the Tsars, p. 212

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