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Sylvia Guirey
Sylvia Guirey (born Princess Sylvia Obolensky; 18 May 1931 – 27 June 1997) was an heiress, artist and art patron. Life Guirey was born in 1931. Her mother was Ava Alice Muriel Astor and her father was Raimund von Hofmannsthal. Her parents would marry quietly in January 1933 after her mother divorced in 1932, but at the time of her birth her mother was in Austria and still married to Prince Serge Obolensky, a former Tsarist officer. During the Second World War, her mother was in London and she was in New York. She did not see her mother until 1946. She had been educated at home and then went onto the Brearley School. On 1 November 1950, she married at the Church of the Holy Trinity in New York to Jean Louis Ganshof van der Meersch, who was a Belgian financier. In 1957, her husband obtained a divorce based on their separation and her friendship with Prince Guirey. At the time of her divorce, she was working with Eugene Berman as she had become interested in stage design. She wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous city and state. A landlocked country, Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has a population of 9 million. Austria emerged from the remnants of the Eastern and Hungarian March at the end of the first millennium. Originally a margraviate of Bavaria, it developed into a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire in 1156 and was later made an archduchy in 1453. In the 16th century, Vienna began serving as the empire's administrative capital and Austria thus became the heartland of the Habsburg monarchy. After the dissolution of the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |