Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia

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	(1892-03-11)11 March 1892 Nice, France
Died	15 May 1981(1981-05-15) (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

Biography

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 (13 October 1885 - 24 March 1973) in 1927. She died on 15 May 1981 in Six-Fours-les-Plages, France, at aged 89.