28. Princess Katia Golitsyn with her sons George (left) and Nikolai during the civil war in the northern Caucasus. A Red Army soldier was so taken by George’s beautiful blue eyes that he gave him a fifteen-kopeck piece and called off the search of the family home. A grateful Katia spent the money on a church candle and prayed for the man’s safety. (Courtesy of George Galitzine)
29. The British battleship HMS
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anchored off the Crimean coast waiting to take Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna and seventeen members of the imperial family into exile, April 1919. Among those present to see them off were Prince Vladimir Emanuelovich Golitsyn and his wife, Katia. Playmate of the tsarevich Alexei, Princess Sophy Dolgoruky, in hat and braids, stands staring at the camera on the right. (Courtesy of George Galitzine)
30. Golden wedding anniversary of Vladimir and Sofia Golitsyn, Bogoroditsk, spring 1921. Of the twenty-two pictured here, thirteen were to be arrested by the Soviet government, five died or were shot in prison, and five left the country.
Sitting, left to right: Maria “Masha” Golitsyn, Sergei Golitsyn, Grigory “Grisha” Trubetskoy, Alexei Bobrinsky, Nikolai Bobrinsky, Varvara “Varya” Trubetskoy. Middle row, left to right: Anna Golitsyn, Yekaterina “Katya” Golitsyn, Mikhail Golitsyn, Sofia Golitsyn, Vladimir Golitsyn (the mayor), Yelena Bobrinsky, Vera Bobrinsky, Alexandra “Tatya” Trubetskoy (fingers in mouth), Yelizaveta “Eli” Trubetskoy, Andrei Trubetskoy. Standing, top row, left to right: Alexandra “Lina” Golitsyn, Sofia “Sonya” Golitsyn, Vladimir Golitsyn, Vladimir Trubetskoy, Sofia “Sonya” Bobrinsky, Alexandra “Alka” Bobrinsky. (Courtesy of Alexandre Galitzine)
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31. The wedding reception of Varvara Gudovich and Vladimir Obolensky, Ostafievo, August 7, 1921. Among the guests at the reception table are the groom and bride (seated middle left), flanked by Maria Obolensky (Vladimir’s mother) and Pavel Sheremetev. Across from them are Yekaterina Sheremetev (peering out at the camera) and Boris Saburov (extreme right with cigarette, gazing downward). Standing (in back from left) are Dmitry Gudovich, Nikolai Sheremetev, and Yuri Saburov (partially obscured). Yelena Sheremetev stands in white at the far end of the table, just to the right of the centerpiece. (Author’s collection)
32. The wedding party on the front steps at Ostafievo. The bride and groom are flanked by Maria Gudovich and Pavel Sheremetev. Bottom row, left to right: Yevgeny Lvov, Dmitry Gudovich, Boris Saburov (smoking, legs crossed), Nikolai Sheremetev (in bow tie with head turned). Middle row, left to right: Yuri Saburov (smoking, in white), Pyotr Sheremetev (in sailor suit), Lilya Sheremetev (behind him, in white), Praskovya Obolensky (future wife of Pavel Sheremetev, next to Pyotr in large hat with black bow). (Author’s collection)
33. A photograph of Vladimir Golitsyn and Yelena Sheremetev taken around the time of their wedding in 1923. “It’s as if we were born for one another!” Vladimir said of Yelena the previous year. “There’s no way I cannot love her!” (Courtesy of Alexandre Galitzine)
34. Vladimir Trubetskoy and the writer Mikhail Prishvin hunting near Sergiev Posad, 1920s. (Courtesy of Mikhail Trubetskoy)
35. Vladimir and Yelena Golitsyn with Yelena’s mother, Lilya, and three of her siblings (Maria, Natalya, and Pavel) shortly before they left Russia in 1924. (Courtesy of Andrei Golitsyn)
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36. Vasily, Pavel, and Praskovya Sheremetev at the Novodevichy Monastery, ca. 1930. (Author’s collection)
37. Pavel Sheremetev in the Naprudny Tower alongside a photograph of his late mother and surrounded by the remains of the family archive and library that he fought to preserve. (Author’s collection)
38. Vasily Sheremetev in the Naprudny Tower, 1936. (Courtesy of Russian State Archive of Literature and Art)
