Prince Sergei Poutiatine: The Fate of the Second Husband of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna

Prince Sergei Mikhailovich Poutiatine was born in the Russian Empire on 7 December 1893 at St Petersburg. He was the eldest son of Prince Michael Mikhailovich Poutiatine (1861-1938) and his wife Princess Sofia Sergeevna (1866-1940; née Paltova). Sergei had one younger brother, Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Poutiatine (1897-1953). The Putyatins (Poutiatines) were a Rurikid family with princely and…

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DEATH OF A ROMANOV PRINCE SELLING NOW ON AMAZON!

Death of a Romanov Prince – Prince Oleg Konstantinovich’s Promising Life and Early Death “The coffin was lowered into the grave……    “Soon there was a burial mound above. It was quickly covered with wreaths, flowers and crowned with a plain wooden cross. Prince Oleg’s promising life was finished.”    Death of a Romanov Prince…

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The Marquise de Ganay (1925-2022)

Philippine de Ganay in Venice, 2006.Photo (c) Getty Images / Bertrand Rindoff Petroff.   Earlier this month, Philippine, Marquise de Ganay, died at the age of ninety-seven.   Born on 4 September 1925 at Paris, Philippine Louise Charlotte Marie de Noailles was the second child and first daughter of Henry de Noailles, Duc de Mouchy,…

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