Matryona Grigorievna Rasputina, who later changed her name to Maria Rasputina, is the daughter of a well-known Russian elder. After the murder of her father, she went abroad, where she became famous for her performances in the circus arena as a trainer, and also as a writer. Matryona Rasputina wrote several books, including the memoirs “Rasputin. Why?" about the father, emperor and patroness of Grigory Rasputin, the Empress, and most importantly - his view on the history of the murder.
Matryona (in her father's arms) with her brother and sister | Wikipedia
Matryona Rasputina was born in the small village of Pokrovskoye, which is located on the territory of the modern Tyumen region. She became the youngest of three children in the family of Grigory Rasputin and his wife Praskovya Fedorovna. Matryona had a brother, Dmitry, and a sister. When the father received a high appointment in St. Petersburg, the daughters moved with him to the capital, and the son remained to live with his mother in Siberia. It should be noted that, according to eyewitnesses, Matryona was the beloved daughter of Grigory Rasputin. The girl studied at the Steblino-Kamensk private preparatory school, and then at the gymnasium, where she lived at the boarding school.
Matryona with her parents | Planet Earth is our home It was there that they began to call her by her new name Maria Rasputina. On holidays and weekends, she and her sister visited the house of her famous father. From him the girl learned to be generous to people, even when she herself was “broke.” Since childhood, Grigory Rasputin taught Matryona not to leave the house with empty pockets, but to take something that she could give to the poor. It was the daughters who reported the disappearance of the old man to the police, the day after the prince took him to his house. And according to legend, it was Matryona who noticed her father’s galoshes that floated out of the river. This is how the body of the dead Grigory Rasputin was discovered.
Emigration
After the revolution, Matryona Rasputina left with her family for the capital of Romania and got a job there as a dancer in a cabaret. She later moved to Paris, where she worked as a governess and again as a cabaret actress. At one of the performances, she was noticed by the brothers Barnum and Bailey Ringling, famous circus owners in their time. They offered her a high payment if the woman could enter the cage with the lions. Matryona gathered all her courage, used the “heavy Rasputin look” and completed the task. So she became a trainer of large predators.
Circus poster of Rasputina the trainer | Russian planet During the first half of the 30s, Matryona Grigorievna toured with the Ringling circus, and then moved to the more expensive Gardner brothers circus. Her performances were advertised as "Tamer of Lions and Tigers, Daughter of the Famous Mad Monk, whose exploits in Russia surprised the world." With Gardner's troupe, Rasputin traveled almost all over the world, but at one of the American performances the woman was attacked by a polar bear, after which her career as a circus performer ended.
Fresher Matryona continued to travel with the circus, no longer performing, until she ended up in Florida, where she got a job at a US Department of Defense plant. She worked as a riveter throughout World War II, and in 1945 she became a United States citizen. Rasputina gave about another 10 years to American defense enterprises, and when she retired due to age, she began working as a nurse in hospitals, as a nanny for families, and as a Russian language teacher.
Books by Matryona Rasputina
The daughter of Grigory Rasputin turned to literary activity after the book by Felix Yusupov was published, in which he described the murder of her father. This was back in the French period of life. First, Matryona sued Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich Romanov, demanding huge financial compensation for moral damage caused. But this claim was rejected by the Parisian judiciary, since, according to French law, it had no right to consider cases that took place in another state.
Photo by Matryona Grigorievna Rasputina | Marie-Mary's Diary Then Matryona Rasputina’s book, memoirs “Rasputin. Why?”, which was followed by two more printed publications in the form of memoirs of Rasputin’s daughter, Matryona. In addition, much later, the woman published a cookbook that contained recipes for Russian cuisine, including Grigory Rasputin’s favorite dishes.
Personal life
The personal life of Matryona Rasputina took shape in October 1917, literally a few days before the October Revolution. She married a Russian officer Boris Nikolaevich Solovyov. Soon the couple's eldest daughter, Tatyana, was born, and the youngest, Maria, was born in exile. It is noteworthy that after many years one of the girls will become a close friend of her daughter.
With her second husband Grigory Bernadsky and daughters from her first marriage Matryona Rasputina's husband used his last funds to open his own restaurant in Paris, but quickly went bankrupt, since Russian immigrants were often unable to pay for their orders, and Boris Nikolaevich did not know how to refuse them. Having closed the culinary establishment, he got a job at an automobile plant, where he fell ill with tuberculosis and died in 1926. Later in America, Matryona Grigorievna Rasputina gets married again. In 1940, she met an old acquaintance from pre-revolutionary life in Russia, white officer Grigory Bernadsky, with whom she lived for just over five years.
Death
The last years of her life, Rasputin’s daughter lived in Los Angeles, not far from the legendary Hollywood. She received a substantial Social Security benefit and lived to almost 80, outliving her brother and sister by almost half a century.
Matryona Grigorievna Rasputina in Los Angeles | Photochronograph Matryona Rasputina died of a heart attack in the fall of 1977 and was buried in the Angel Rosedale cemetery. The grandchildren of the daughter of the infamous Elder still live in France and the USA, some of them regularly visit Russia.
Matryona Rasputina, the eldest daughter of Grigory Rasputin, was born in 1898. On October 5, 1917, she married officer Boris Solovyov. Soon after the revolution, Matryona and her husband managed to leave Russia. The family settled in Paris. In 1924, the husband died. Matryona was left with two daughters in her arms, practically without funds. The beginning of her career as a (quite successful) dancer dates back to that time. Later, already in America, Matryona mastered a profession that perhaps better suited her temperament - tiger tamer.
She died in Los Angeles (California, USA) in 1977 from a heart attack.
Her notes about her father - she called them in a foreign way “Rasputin. Why?" - Matryona Grigorievna (however, in America she was known as Maria) wrote from 1946 to 1960. For unknown reasons, she did not publish them herself, although she sought - even agreed to their use by her American neighbor in a nursing home (see below).
I acquired this manuscript in 1999 from its last owner, who for some reason did not allow me to announce her name. I'll call her Mrs. X.
Mrs. X herself was born and lives in Paraguay. Her maternal grandfather was one of those Cossacks who, having fled Crimea in 1920, decided to try their luck in South America - hundreds of them were then lured by fertile lands and the opportunity to quickly get on their feet.
Mrs. X's aunt married and went to America in 1957. For some reason, she almost did not maintain contact with her relatives, so the message about the inheritance from a childless relative she did not know well came as a surprise to Mrs. X. In addition to a fairly significant amount of money, she brought business papers and a box with a manuscript from America, which, of course, she looked into, but nothing more. In my opinion, due to insufficient knowledge of the Russian language, Mrs. X. had no idea what the three thick notebooks with a lot of pastings that she inherited from her aunt were filled with. She doesn’t know how Rasputina’s manuscript got to her aunt.
In the fall of 1998, Mrs. X. was shown the books I published, “The Romanovs. The Imperial House in Exile" and "Memoirs" of Prince Yusupov, the murderer of Rasputin. “That’s when I decided that maybe you would like to publish his daughter’s recordings,” Mrs. X explained to me later.
It took us six months to negotiate (after all, everything was done only by mail, she doesn’t have any faxes), another few months for the manuscript to reach Moscow by sea...
What are the notes of Matryona Rasputina?
This, if you try to define it in one phrase, is an explanation with those who consider Grigory Rasputin to be the culprit of almost all the troubles that befell Russia.
And here I must say that, blindly acquiring the notes of Rasputin’s daughter (Mrs. X. did not agree to my preliminary acquaintance with the manuscript), I acted with some apprehension. It was justified to expect from Matryona Rasputina variations on the theme of her own notes about her father, published before the war - a very naive and completely apologetic book. (Separately, it should be said about the book, published in English in the USA in 1977 under two names - Pat Barham and Maria Rasputina - “Rasputin on the Other Side of the Myth.” I even ordered its translation, but did not publish it - my daughter participated in it Rasputin was reduced to conveying episodes of his father’s life, and they, unfortunately, were completely drowned in cranberries and molasses. However, the overlap with the notes that are in front of you is undeniable.)
This time a pleasant surprise awaited me. Now he is waiting for you. Three notebooks, covered in the handwriting of a not too diligent student, turned out to be very interesting reading. A fascinating and educational read for both the general reader and the specialist.
The book is structured as an interpretation of the father's life - from birth in the village of Pokrovskoye to death in the waters of the Neva in Petrograd. And it is precisely in the unexpected (but always absolutely logical psychologically) interpretation of the actions of Grigory Rasputin that the charm of Matryona’s notes lies. At the same time, it is natural that, answering the question “why?”, Matryona conveys a lot of details that eluded other, as she writes, “memories.”
What is the connection between the deaths of the brothers - Mikhail and Grigory Rasputin, which happened with an almost forty-year gap; between Elizabeth of England and Anna Vyrubova; between Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich’s craving for hunting and Russia’s entry into the war in 1414; between religiosity and eroticism in Rasputin himself, etc.? Matryona Rasputina knows about all this.
How accurate is her knowledge? Just enough so that what she talks about “is quite possible.” The beauty of Matryona Rasputina’s notes is that each reader himself can, if he wants, determine the distance from the possible to the actual. By the way, Matryona Rasputina hints at this - they say both Zhevakhov and Kokovtsov talk about it, but they still didn’t understand what they were talking about...
Reading is not at all hampered by the author’s not always following the chronology exactly - only the timeline is preserved, and some events are “put in the wrong place.” "Why?" wins the battle with “when?”.
The degree of Matryona’s internal involvement in the events she describes is also visible from the way she reflects everyday details. They are far from the most important thing for her, but she is from that time and cannot neglect them. So cute details seem to appear through the foreground.
A special matter is the tone of the notes. No aspiration, just the right amount of sentiment so that it doesn’t irritate. But there is no doubt - Matryona adores her father. But he adores, so to speak, with dignity, leaving others the right to dislike him (if you don’t love him, but at least understand, don’t brush him off). And really, it’s hard to dismiss. At times, the temperament that the daughter clearly inherited from her father simply bursts into the pages of notes.
Probably, it was precisely temperament that forced Matryona Rasputina to neglect the rules of spelling (of course, the old one) in the most tense places, not to mention punctuation. She seems to be in a hurry to speak out, sometimes not finishing words or shortening them in the most bizarre way.
Actually, the publisher’s work came down to deciphering some words, very minor editing of the style (solely due to the fact that as we moved towards the end, Matryona’s Russian language became more and more Americanized), collating quotes and bringing them to the form in which they are reproduced in modern publications.
To make it easier to read, I have divided the text into chapters and sub-chapters and given them titles. Applications are also added by me.
And finally, I conclude this protracted explanation with the reader with a brief reference “Who is who in the memoirs of M. G. Rasputina.” I give only the names and occupations (during the events described) of the main persons mentioned by her.
Alexander Mikhailovich (Sandro)- Grand Duke, uncle of Nicholas II, married to his sister Ksenia.
Anastasia Nikolaevna (Stana)- Grand Duchess, daughter of the Montenegrin Prince Njegosh, wife of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich.
Badmaev Petr Alexandrovich- the son of a wealthy Buryat cattle dealer, a doctor, used the techniques of oriental medicine.
Beletsky Stepan Petrovich- and about. Director of the Police Department, Comrade Minister of Internal Affairs.
Botkin Evgeniy Sergeevich- house doctor of the royal family.
Botkina-Melnik- his daughter.
Buchanan George- British Ambassador to Russia.
Witte Sergey Yulievich- count, statesman.
Voeikov Vladimir Nikolaevich- palace commandant.
Vyrubova Anna Alexandrovna- maid of honor of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and confidant of the royal family.
Hermogenes (Dolganev Georgy Efremovich)- Bishop of Saratov and Tsaritsyn, retired.
Golovina Maria Evgenievna (Munya)- bride of Nikolai, brother of Felix Yusupov, fan of Rasputin.
Gurko Vladimir Iosifovich- Chamberlain, comrade of the Minister of Internal Affairs, was dismissed after a scandal related to financial fraud.
Matryona Rasputina with her parents.
Among the Russian emigrants of the first wave there were many interesting and bright personalities. But one woman attracted special attention, although she did not always want it. She called herself Maria, although her parents called her Matryona. She was the daughter of the famous royal favorite Grigory Rasputin, and the shadow of her father’s controversial and loud fame accompanied her from childhood until the last days of her more than difficult life.
Matryona Rasputin.
“I am the daughter of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin. Baptized by Matryona, my family called me Maria. Father - Marochka. Now I am 48 years old. Almost the same age as my father was when he was taken away from home by a terrible man - Felix Yusupov. I remember everything and never tried to forget anything that happened to me or my family (no matter how my enemies might count on it). I do not cling to memories, as those who tend to savor their misfortunes do. I just live by them. I love my father very much. Just as much as others hate him. I can't make others love him. I don’t strive for this, just as my father did not strive. Like him, I just want understanding. But, I’m afraid - and this is excessive when it comes to Rasputin,” these are words from the book “Rasputin. Why?”, written by his daughter Matryona. The very same one whose hand once dictated his father’s last letter.
The Rasputin family. In the center is the widow of Grigory Rasputin Paraskeva Feodorovna, on the left is his son Dmitry, on the right is his wife Feoktista Ivanovna. In the background is Ekaterina Ivanovna Pecherkina (a worker in the house).
By the mid-1930s, only Martrona remained alive from the whole family. Sister Varya died in 1925 in Moscow from typhus. Brother Mitya was sent into exile in 1930 as a “malicious element.” His mother Paraskeva Fedorovna and his wife Feoktista went with him to Salekhard. Paraskeva Fedorovna died on the way. Dmitry himself, his wife and daughter Lisa contracted dysentery and died in 1933, Dmitry being the last, almost on the day of his father’s death, December 16.
Varvara Rasputina. Post-revolutionary photo, saved by a friend. Damaged deliberately, out of fear of reprisals from the Soviet government.
Matryona in October 1917, literally a few days before the October uprising, married the Russian officer Boris Nikolaevich Solovyov. They had two daughters - Tatyana and Maria. Even before the birth of their second daughter, the family emigrated to Romania, then the Czech Republic, Germany. France…
Boris Solovyov and Marochka.
Boris Nikolaevich opened a restaurant in Paris, but went bankrupt because his fellow emigrants came in for lunch without money. In 1926, Boris Nikolaevich died of tuberculosis, and Matryona had to earn a living for herself and her two children.
Remembering that she had once trained at the ballerina dance school of the Imperial Theaters Devillers in Berlin, she became a cabaret actress.
Matryona Rasputina - dancer of the Imperial Cabaret.
The manager of one of the English circuses noticed her act and offered: “If you enter a cage with lions, I’ll hire you.” I walked in, what should I do? She changed her name - on the posters of that time she was recommended as “Marie Rasputin, daughter of a mad monk.” Her menacing “Rasputin” look could make any predator jump into a burning ring.
Trainer Matryona Rasputina.
One of her famous Rasputin looks is enough to stop any predator.
She was a success - soon entrepreneurs from America drew attention to her and invited her to perform at the Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey Circus, then at the Gardner Circus. One day, during a performance, she was attacked by a polar bear. I had to give up my career as a tamer. The mystical coincidence - once in the Yusupov Palace, her father, mortally wounded, collapsed on the skin of a polar bear - was discussed in all the newspapers.
Maria Rasputina in the hospital.
Meeting at a restaurant.
After such a grandiose career as a tamer, Maria worked as a nanny, governess, and taught Russian. In 1945, she became a US citizen, went to work in the defense shipyards and worked there as a riveter until her retirement.
Maria died at the age of 79 on September 27, 1977 in Los Angeles and was buried in Angel Rosedale Cemetery.
In the minds of most people, Grigory Rasputin is either a magician, sorcerer and sectarian, or a swindler and charlatan, who subjugated the family of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II to his influence and suffered martyrdom from the conspirators for this. What else do we know about him? Meanwhile, the “holy devil,” as he was called, had a completely normal family - a wife and children...
Family life and wandering
At the age of 19, in Alabatsk, at a church holiday, Grigory met a beautiful girl, Praskovya Dubrovina, and married her. They had a child. However, the firstborn soon died. The death of the baby shocked Gregory so much that he lost faith in God, began going to taverns and even took up robbery... In 1892, a village meeting sentenced him to deportation for a year. Having repented, Gregory went to the Verkhoturyevo Monastery, where he learned to read and write, the law of God and other sciences from the elder hermit Macarius. He also advised him to wander. In 1893, together with his friend Dmitry Pechorkin, Gregory went to Greece, where he visited Orthodox monasteries in the mountains of Macedonia. Then, upon returning to Russia, he visited the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Solovki, Valaam, Optina Monastery, Nilov Monastery and other holy places. Meanwhile, every summer he visited his wife Praskovya. They had more children: in 1895 - Dmitry, in 1898 - Matryona, in 1900 - Varvara.
Petersburg
In 1905, in the Kiev monastery of St. Michael, Gregory met Grand Duchess Anastasia. She persuaded Rasputin to come to St. Petersburg to help Tsarevich Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia.
The “elder” (as Rasputin was called) treated the prince with herbs, prayers and the laying on of hands. After the “old man’s” treatment, the boy noticeably improved, and Rasputin settled down at court. He acquired enormous influence over the imperial family, which, naturally, did not please the courtiers. They began to spread monstrous rumors about the royal favorite - that he organized orgies, kept a harem of concubines in his house... How true all this was is unknown.
In 1910, his daughters Matryona and Varvara moved to Rasputin’s apartment on Gorokhovaya in St. Petersburg. Their father arranged for them to study at the gymnasium. His wife Praskovya and son Dmitry remained in Pokrovskoye, where the head of the family sometimes visited.
Unlucky fate
After the murder of Rasputin, initiated by Prince Felix Yusupov, the family of the “elder” had a hard time. Son Dmitry married Feoktista Pecherkina in 1918. Until 1930, he and his family lived in Pokrovskoye, then they were “dispossessed” and sent into exile as “evil elements” in Obdorsk (Salekhard). Praskovya Feodorovna died along the way, and three years later Dmitry Feoktist’s wife also died of tuberculosis. Their little daughter Lisa also died. Three months later, dysentery claimed the life of Dmitry Grigorievich. It happened on December 16, 1933, just on the anniversary of my father’s death...
Rasputin's youngest daughter Varvara never married and died in Moscow in 1925, suffering from both typhoid and tuberculosis.
Matryona - lion tamer
The fate of Matryona's eldest daughter, as her father called her, Marochka (she herself preferred to call herself Maria), was much more successful. Literally a few days before the October Uprising of 1917, she married officer Boris Nikolaevich Solovyov, the son of the Holy Synod official Nikolai Vasilyevich Solovyov, who during his lifetime was a close acquaintance of Rasputin. Boris participated in the attempt to free Nicholas II during the royal family's stay in Siberian exile. From this marriage two daughters were born, named after the murdered grand duchesses - Tatiana and Maria. The youngest is already in exile.
The family lived in Romania, the Czech Republic, Germany, France... In Paris, Boris opened a restaurant for Russian emigrants, but soon went bankrupt, as he often fed his compatriots for free... In 1926, Solovyov died of tuberculosis, and his widow was forced to look for a livelihood. At first she went to work as a dancer in a cabaret. Once the manager of an English circus approached her and offered to hire her as a trainer if she could enter a cage with lions. Matryona agreed. She crossed herself and entered the cage with the predators. They didn’t touch her - perhaps thanks to the special “magnetic” look inherited from her father... So “Marie Rasputin, the daughter of a mad monk, famous for her exploits in Russia!” appeared on the posters!
Matryona began touring around the world.
In the late 30s, American entrepreneurs became interested in her. Soon she moved permanently to the United States, working in the Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey circuses, as well as in the Gardner circus.
In 1940, Matryona remarried the Russian emigrant Grigory Bernadsky, whom she knew back in Russia. But the marriage lasted only five years.
After she was once injured by a polar bear in the arena, Rasputin's daughter left her circus career. She worked as a nanny, governess, and nurse in a hospital, gave Russian language lessons... Finally, she published a book about her father, “Rasputin. Why? ”, in which in every possible way whitewashed the personality of Rasputin and rejected the accusations attributed to him. “I love my father very much,” she wrote. “Just as much as others hate him.”
Matryona Grigorievna, née Rasputina, having received American citizenship in 1945, worked as a riveter in defense shipyards until her retirement and died in 1977 in California from a heart attack. She was the only one of Rasputin's children to live to old age.
By the way, one of Matryona’s daughters, Maria, was married to a Dutch diplomat, and in the late 40s, their family met the daughter of Prince and Princess Yusupov, Irina, in Greece. Their children - Serge and Ksenia - played together, not suspecting that the grandfather of one became the murderer of the great-grandfather of the other...
One of Rasputin’s great-granddaughters, Laurence Io-Solovieva, lives in France, but often visits Russia. She also visited Pokrovskoye, the homeland of her famous ancestor.
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Maria Rasputina(born Matryona Grigorievna Rasputina; March 27, 1898 – September 27, 1977) - daughter of the Russian mystic Grigory Rasputin and Praskovya Dubrovina.
Writer Vera Zhukovskaya later described sixteen-year-old Maria as having a broad face with a square chin and “bright lips.” Her strong body seemed about to burst from her cashmere dress and smelled of sweat. Society ladies affectionately called her Mara and Marochka. Zhukovskaya thought it was strange to see Rasputin's daughter receiving so much attention from princesses and countesses.
Maria later told her grandchildren that her father taught her to be generous even when she was in need. Rasputin said that she should never leave home with empty pockets, and should always have something in them to give to the poor.
Death of Rasputin
Rasputin's daughters were living with him in a small apartment in St. Petersburg in December 1916 when he was lured and killed at a party at the house of Felix Yusupov, whom Rasputin calls "Little". The next day, they reported the disappearance of their father to the operatives and discovered galoshes floating out of the river that belonged to their father.
In April 1918, the Tsar and Tsarina were traveling to their last exile in Yekaterinburg, Alexandra Feodorovna looked out of the train window to Pokrovskoye and saw Rasputin's family and friends looking at them from the window of Rasputin's house. According to Radzinsky, but if you look at the geographical map, this is impossible. Since the village is located far from the railway.
Exile
Boris Nikolaevich Soloviev (Rasputina's husband) and Maria fled first to Bucharest, Romania, where Maria was a cabaret dancer. They later emigrated to Paris, where Soloviev worked in a car factory and died of tuberculosis in 1926. Maria worked as a governess to support her two young daughters. After Felix Yusupov published his memoirs, in which he described in detail the murder of her father, Maria sued Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich in a Paris court for damages in the amount of 800,000. She condemned them as murderers, saying: "any decent person is disgusted by the brutal murder of Rasputin." The claim was rejected. A French court has ruled that it has no jurisdiction over a political assassination that took place in Russia.
Maria published the first of her three memoirs about Rasputin in 1932. In addition, she later co-wrote a cookbook that includes recipes for jellied fish head and her father's favorite cod soup. After working as a cabaret dancer, Maria found work as a circus performer at the Ringling Bros. Circus.
In the 1930s, she toured Europe and America as a lion tamer, promoting herself as "the daughter of the famous mad monk whose exploits in Russia surprised the world." She was in Peru, Indiana, and stayed with the circus until she reached Miami, Florida, where she left the circus profession and took a job as a riveter in a defense shipyard during World War II. She settled permanently in the United States in 1937 and became a US citizen in 1945. In 1940, she married a man named Grigory Bernadsky.
Maria worked in US defense companies until 1955, after which she was forced to retire due to age. She then worked in hospitals, as a nanny for friends and giving Russian language lessons.
In her final years, she lived near the Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles, California, receiving Social Security benefits. Mary is buried in Angel Rosedale Cemetery.
Heritage
Married to Boris Solovyov, she had two daughters. The eldest, Tatyana (1920 - 2009), was born in the Far East. Another daughter, Maria (1922 - 1976), was born in Baden, Austria. Maria married the Dutch Ambassador to Cuba in 1947, Gideon Walrave Boissevein (1897 - 1985). Tatyana Borisovna Frerjea (presumably her married name was Frerjean) gave birth to three children: Serge (b. 07/29/1939), Michelle (b. 08/06/1942) and Laurence (b. 11/30/1943). Her last daughter, Laurence Io-Solovieff, visited Russia several times, including the village of Pokrovskoye. Serge has children: Valerie (b. 1963) and Alexandra (b. 1968); Valerie gave birth to Basil in 1992. Michelle had a son, Jean-François (1968–1985). Laurence herself has two children: Maud (b. 1967) and Carol (b. 1966). Maria Borisovna gave birth to a son, Serge (07/10/1947–01/03/2011) and had two granddaughters: Katya (b. 1970) and Embr (b. 1978). It is interesting that while in Greece with my husband in the late 1940s. Maria met and became friends with Felix Yusupov's daughter Irina (1915–1983), and their children, Serge and Ksenia (b. 1942), played children's games together.
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