Alexander Zoubkoff

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Alexander Anatolewitsch Zoubkoff ( Russian Александр Анатольевич Зубков , transcribed Alexander Anatoljewitsch Zubkov ; born September 25, 1901 in Ivanovo-Woznesensk , Russian Empire ; † January 28, 1936 as a husband -in-law from Prussia, a husband -in-law from Luxemburg , for a short time in Luxembourg of the former German Emperor Wilhelm II.

Life

Alexander Zoubkoff with his wife Viktoria, b. Princess of Prussia, 1927.

Zoubkoff posed as a Russian nobleman who had lost everything in the revolution. In 1927 he married Viktoria von Prussia, 34 years his senior, whose first husband Adolf zu Schaumburg-Lippe had died in 1916 during the First World War and who lived in Bonn in what is now Palais Schaumburg . The marriage was a social scandal at the time and broke up just a few months after Zoubkoff had managed to get through a significant part of his wife's fortune.

He fled to Luxembourg (other sources speak of expulsion in 1928), where he lived as an alleged medical student and waiter. The restaurant in Luxembourg City where he worked advertised with a sign saying “The Emperor's brother-in-law is serving you here”.

Zoubkoff published his memoirs in 1928, which read like a picaresque novel. His impoverished wife also tried to justify her life in her own memories, which she published in the Bonner General-Anzeiger .

In 1933, Zoubkoff appeared as a parachutist at an air show, making him the first ever parachutist in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Even after that he was still active as a showman to make a living.

literature

  • Zoubkoff, Alexander: My life and love , unchang. Ed., Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 2005.
  • Zoubkoff, Viktoria, b. Princess of Prussia: What life gave me - and took away , [Book edition of the articles in the Bonner Generalanzeiger from 1928], Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 2005.

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Individual proof

  1. ↑ Proof of the appearance as a parachutist ( memento from September 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Zoubkoff, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zoubkoff, Alexander Anatolewitsch; Зубков, Александр Анатольевич (Russian spelling); Subkow, Alexander Anatolyevich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian emigrant and impostor
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Ivanovo-Voznesensk , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1936
Place of death Luxembourg