Natalia Sergeyevna Brassova

Natalia Sergeyevna Brassova

Countess Natalia Brasova , born Scheremetjewskaja , ( Russian Наталья Сергеевна Брасова, called Natasha, * June 27 ^{. Jul} / 9. July  1880 ^greg. In Moscow , † 23 January 1952 in Paris ) was in morganatic marriage with Grand Duke Michael of Russia , brother of the last Russian tsar Nicholas II. , married.

Life

She was born as the youngest daughter of Sergei Alexandrovich Sheremetyevsky and his wife Julia Vladislavovna. Her father worked as a lawyer in Moscow and belonged to the nobility , although her nobility was of little importance. In the first years of her life, Natascha grew up in a good middle-class family.

Natascha was married a total of three times. In 1902 she married the piano player Sergei Mamontow, with whom she had a daughter, Natalja Mamontovna (born June 2, 1903, † 1969), called Tata . In 1905 she married the lieutenant of the imperial bodyguard Wladimir Wulfert. The marriage remained childless. Through her second husband she met her future third husband, the Grand Duke Michael of Russia . Her illegitimate son Georg Michailowitsch Brassow was born on July 24, 1910. Natascha and the Grand Duke secretly married in Vienna on October 16, 1912 in an Orthodox church.

After the Russian Revolution, Natasha was able to flee from the Bolsheviks and lived first in England and later in Paris . She died impoverished in a Paris hospital from complications from cancer.

See also

• Assassination of the tsarist family

literature

• Rosemary Crawford, Donald Crawford: Michail and Natascha. The last tsar and his great love (= Piper 3343). Unabridged paperback edition. Piper, Munich et al. 2001, ISBN 3-492-23343-0 .
• Евгений В. Пчелов: Генеалогия Романовых 1613–2001. Экслибрис-Пресс, Москва 2001, ISBN 5-88161-102-0 (Genealogy of the Romanovs 1613-2001).

Web links

Commons : Natalia, Princess Brassova  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• CV , GeneaNet (French / English)