Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia

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name = Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia


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birth_date = birth date|1892|03|11|mf=y
birth_place = Nice, France
death_date = death date and age|1981|05|15|1892|03|11|mf=y
death_place = Six-Fours-les-Plages, France
spouse = Prince Alexander Galitzine
children =
parents = Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (father)
Grand Duchess Militza(mother).

Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia (March 11, 1892 - May 15, 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, France 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.Zeepvat, "The Camera and the Tsars", p. 154 ] Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna suggested Princess Marina as a likely bride to the Duke of Montpensier, son of the Count of Paris.Zeepvat, "Romanov Autumn", p. 165 ] During World War I Marina served as a nurse with Caucasian troops near Trabzon.Zeepvat, "The Camera and the Tsars", p. 203 ] She escaped the Russian Revolution with the rest of her family aboard the British ship the HMS Marlborough in 1919. Zeepvat, "The Camera and the Tsars", p. 212 ] She married Prince Alexander Galitzine in 1927. She died on May 15, 1981 in Six-Fours-les-Plages, France, aged 89.

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*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