| Princess Marina Petrovna | |
|---|---|
| Spouse | Prince Alexander Galitzine |
| House by marriage House by birth |
House of Golitsyns House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov |
| Father | Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich |
| Mother | Grand Duchess Militza Nikolaevna |
| Born | 11 March 1892 Nice, France |
| Died | 15 May 1981 (aged 89) Six-Fours-les-Plages, France |
Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia (11 March 1892 – 15 May 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 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 Montpensier, son of the Count of Paris.[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 15 May 1981 in Six-Fours-les-Plages, France, aged 89.