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unusual facts about Obolensky



Dimitri Alexandrovich Obolensky

When news came of the Austro-Hungarian monitor bombardment of the Serbian city of Belgrade beginning on 29 July 1914, Obolensky spoke stirringly to the peasants on his estate of the need for war, and they reacted enthusiastically.

Edward Beddington-Behrens

Irina was born at Luga on 14 September 1917, the daughter of Prince Sergei Alexandrovich Obolensky and Liubov Alexandrovna Narychkine.

Russian Orthodox Cemetery, Nice

3.000 Russians, including the descendants of Russian immigrants and refugees after the October Revolution and the members of royal families were buried at the cemetery such as Galitzine, Naryshkin, Obolensky, Volkonsky, Tsereteli and Gagarin family.


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