Vladimir Pavlovich Paley
Vladimir Pavlovich Paley Prince, Count of High Rock , Russian Владимир Павлович Палей (* December 28, 1896 . Jul / 9. January 1897 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † 18 July 1918 in Alapayevsk ) one was Russian poet and grandson of the Russian Czar Alexander II.
Life
Vladimir was the son of Grand Duke Pawel Alexandrowitsch Romanow (1860-1919) and his second wife Olga von Pistohlkors (1865-1929), later Countess von Hohenfelsen and Princess Paley. After his parents married in 1902, he grew up in Paris with his two younger sisters, Irina Pawlowna (1903–1990) and Natalia Pawlowna (1905–1981). Through his father's first marriage, Vladimir had two older half-siblings, Maria Pavlovna Romanova and Dmitri Pavlovich Romanow . This was partly responsible for the murder of the itinerant preacher Rasputin .
After his father and his family returned to Russia from exile in France and was allowed to live in Tsarskoye Selo (1914), he completed his training at a military school in Saint Petersburg. Vladimir fought in the Russian Army in World War I and was decorated as a war hero with the Order of Saint Anne .
Since his youth, Vladimir showed an extraordinary talent as a poet. He published two volumes of poetry (1916 and 1918) and wrote several plays and essays as well as a French translation of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Romanov's play "The King of the Jews".
In February 1917, a provisional government was formed under Prince Lvov . Shortly thereafter, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated and the Bolsheviks under Lenin and Trotsky seized power after the October Revolution of 1917.
In the summer of 1917 he and his family were placed under house arrest in the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo (today: Pushkin ) after he had written a poem about Alexander Kerensky . In March 1918 he was exiled by the Bolsheviks to Kirov and later to Yekaterinburg and Alapayevsk . He was murdered there together with Elisabeth von Hessen-Darmstadt , Sergei Michailowitsch Romanow , as well as Iwan , Konstantin and Igor Konstantinowitsch Romanow : Members of the Cheka pushed them into a twenty-meter-deep mine shaft and threw hand grenades after them. When the area around Alapayevsk was briefly under the control of the Czechoslovak legions during the Russian civil war , they recovered the bodies of the murder victims. The remains were buried months later in an Orthodox cemetery in Beijing , China . This was destroyed around 1945.
swell
- Jacques Ferrand: Il est toujours des Romanov (Les Romanovs en 1995) , Paris 1995
- Gothaischer Genealogischer Hofkalender 1918 and 1920, Perthes, Gotha
- Ever. W. Ptschelow: Monarchs of Russia (Монархи России), Olma-Press, Moscow 2003, page 547 (Russian)
literature
- Andrei Baranovsky: Biography of Prince Vladimir Paley, 1997
- Jorge F. Saenz: A Poet Among the Romanovs, 2004
Remarks
- ↑ dtv Atlas for World History, Volume 2; First World War / Political Crises, Russian Revolution (1917), 129
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Paley, Vladimir Pavlovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hohenfelsen, Wladimir Pawlowitsch Prince Paley, Count of (full name); Палей, Владимир Павлович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian poet and grandson of Tsar Alexander II. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18 July 1918 |
| Place of death | Alapayevsk |