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Princess Marina Petrovna Golitsyna From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
| Princess Marina Petrovna | |
|---|---|
| Princess Marina Petrovna Golitsyna | |
| |
| Born | 11 March 1892 Nice, France |
| Died | 15 May 1981 (aged 89) Six-Fours-les-Plages, France |
| Spouse |
Prince Alexander Nikolayevich Golitsyn
(m. 1927; died 1973) |
| House | Holstein-Gottorp-Romonov |
| Father | Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia |
| Mother | Princess Milica 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. She was a maternal granddaughter of Nicholas I, King of Montenegro.
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 Saint 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 HMS Marlborough in 1919.[4] She married Prince Alexander Nikolayevich Golitsyn in 1927. She died on 15 May 1981 in Six-Fours-les-Plages, France, at aged 89.
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