Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia

HouseHolstein-Gottorp-RomonovFatherGrand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of RussiaMotherPrincess Milica of Montenegro

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.

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.

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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References

• Zeepvat, Charlotte, The Camera and the Tsars, Sutton Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3049-7.
• Zeepvat, Charlotte, Romanov Autumn, Sutton Publishing, 2000, ISBN 0-7509-2739-9