Mdiwani (noble family)

Serge Mdiwani and Pola Negri, around 1930

Dawid Mdiwani and Mae Murray, around 1926

Alexis Mdiwani and Barbara Hutton, around 1934

The house of Mdiwani ( Georgian მდივანი) came from the lower Georgian nobility. Clever marriage policies and the clear recognition of political opportunities enabled them to achieve tremendous social advancement under the rule of the Tsaresses Elisabeth Petrovna Romanova and Catherine II.

family members

Zaxharias Mdiwani (1867–1933) was a general in the Tsarist Russian Army in World War I and commander in chief of the Caucasian Military District from April to September 1917. He then served in the army of the Democratic Republic of Georgia and later emigrated with his family to Paris . His ambitious wife, Elisabeth Mdiwani, had quickly acquired the princess title and thus made her children princes or princesses. All of the sons made “brilliant” marriages, so that they came into the reputation of dowry hunters, although the family had not left Georgia penniless. In society, the five siblings were only known as the "married Mdiwanis".

• Nina Mdiwani (1901–1987)

⚭ 1925–1936 Charles Henry Huberick, lawyer

⚭ 1936 Denis Percy Conan Doyle (1909–1955), son of the writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

⚭ 1955 Anthony Harwood

• Serge Mdiwani (1903-1936 fatal accident while playing polo )

⚭ 1927-1931 Pola Negri (1897-1987), silent film - Legend

Love affair with Gloria Swanson (1899-1983)

⚭ 1931–1933 Mary MacCormick, opera singer

⚭ 1936 Louise van Alen (1910–1997), member of the Astor family and ex-wife of his brother Alexis

• David Mdiwani (1904-1984)

⚭ 1926–1934 Mae Murray (1885–1965), actress and dancer

Love affair with the French actress Arletty (1898–1992 actually Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat )

⚭ 1944 Virginia Sinclair (* 1922), heiress of Sinclair Oil

• Alexis Mdiwani (1905–1935 fatal car accident)

⚭ 1931–1932 Louise van Alen (1910–1997)

⚭ 1933–1935 Barbara Hutton (1912–1979), granddaughter of Winfield Woolworth and heiress of the Woolworth Group

Liaison with Else (Maud) Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon (* 1909), second wife of Heinrich Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon

• Isabelle Roussadana Mdiwani (1905–1938)

⚭ 1927 Josep Maria Sert (1876–1945), Spanish painter

More family members

• Budu Mdiwani (1877–1937), revolutionary and Soviet party official
• Archil Mdiwani (1911–1937), tennis player, son of Budu Mdiwani
• Andrei Mdiwani (* 1937), composer

literature

• Hermann Grote : Family Tables. European rulers and princely houses , Hahn'sche publishing house accounting, Leipzig 1877.

Web links

• Serge Mdivani in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved March 3, 2016.

Remarks

1. ↑ Biography (Russian)
2. ↑ Emily Astor on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
3. ^ Andrei Mdivani