Prince
A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. Th ...
Alexander Vladimirovich Baryatinsky (22 May 1870 – 8 March 1910) was a Russian nobleman, staff captain, and ''bon vivant'', widely known for his romance with the beautiful Italian
Lina Cavalieri
Natalina "Lina" Cavalieri (25 December 1874 – 7 February 1944) was an Italian operatic dramatic soprano, actress, and monologist.
Biography
Lina Cavalieri was born on Christmas Day at Viterbo, some north of Rome. She lost her parents at the a ...
. He was born 22 May 1870,
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
, gorod Sankt-Peterburg, Russia.
[https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-227593771-1-504325/alexander-vladimirovich-baryatinsky-in-myheritage-family-trees ] He died 8 March 1910 in
Florence
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, Italy.
Early life
Baryatinsky was the eldest son of Prince Vladimir Anatolyevich Baryatinsky (1843–1914), a general in the army, by his marriage to Countess Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Stenbock-Fermor (1847–1920). He was the grandson of Lieutenant-General Prince Anatoly Baryatinsky (1821–1881) and a cousin of Field Marshal
Prince Alexander Baryatinsky (1815–1879). On his mother’s side, he was descended from the millionaire business man S. Y. Yakovlev.
[М. S. Baryatinsky, ''Моя русская жизнь: Воспоминания великосветской дамы 1870–1918'' (2006), p. 367 (in Russian)]
He was educated at home and then at the
Page Corps
The Page Corps (russian: Пажеский корпус; french: Corps des Pages) was a military academy in Imperial Russia, which prepared sons of the nobility and of senior officers for military service. Similarly, the Imperial School of Jurisprud ...
, becoming a ''page du chambre'' in October 1889. With his younger brother Anatoly, he hoped to be commissioned into the Horse Guards, but at the request of the
Emperor Alexander III
Alexander III ( rus, Алекса́ндр III Алекса́ндрович, r=Aleksandr III Aleksandrovich; 10 March 18451 November 1894) was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894. ...
he instead went into the Nizhny Novgorod Regiment of Dragoons. As a headquarters-captain, he was an adjutant to
Eugen, Duke of Leuchtenberg. In 1896 he was awarded the Order of St Stanislav (third class). In 1901, for family reasons, he resigned his commission.
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Lina Cavalieri
Baryatinsky was one of the richest men in Russia, which allowed him to lead a life of luxury. In 1897, he began an open affair with the famous opera singer and beauty Lina Cavalieri
Natalina "Lina" Cavalieri (25 December 1874 – 7 February 1944) was an Italian operatic dramatic soprano, actress, and monologist.
Biography
Lina Cavalieri was born on Christmas Day at Viterbo, some north of Rome. She lost her parents at the a ...
and spent huge sums of money on her. His passion for her was serious, and he asked the Emperor Nicholas II to give him permission to marry her, but his parents did all they could to prevent this from happening. In the summer of 1896, they had already had similar trouble, as they saw it, when their youngest son, Vladimir Baryatinsky, secretly married an actress, Yavorskaya. Their oldest son was heir to the dynasty of the Baryatinsky, and a marriage with Cavalieri would have discredited the whole family. They were supported by the Emperor, and Baryatinsky obeyed their will.[
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Marriage and final years
On 5 October 1901, in Biarritz
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, Baryatinsky married the “amazingly beautiful” Princess Catherine Alexandrovna Yurievskaya
Princess Catherine Alexandrovna Yurievskaya (Russian: Екатерина Александровна Юрьевская, ''Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Yurievskaya''; 9 September 1878 ( O.S.) – 22 December 1959) was the natural daughter of Alexander ...
(1878-1959), a daughter of the Emperor Alexander II by his morganatic marriage with Catherine Dolgorukov
Princess Catherine Dolgorukova (; 15 February 1922) was a Russian aristocrat and the daughter of Prince Michael Dolgorukov (from Rurik dynasty) and Vera Vishnevskaya.
Catherine was a long-time mistress of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and late ...
. After the wedding, they lived mainly abroad, where Baryatinsky was well-known in high society
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. In Paris, they lived at number 6, Place des États-Unis
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It consists of a plaza, approximately long and wide, tree ...
, where their son Andrei Alexandrovich was born in 1902. A second son, Alexander, was born at Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
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The city is located in the heart o ...
, in 1905.
The Baryatinskys spent the winter of 1909–1910 in Florence
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, where they rented a villa. There, Baryatinsky suffered his first apoplectic attack, but began to recover. A few months later, while playing bridge with friends, he fell to the floor and passed out. A few days later, on 8 March 1910, without having regained consciousness, he died of acute meningitis
Meningitis is acute or chronic inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, collectively called the meninges. The most common symptoms are fever, headache, and neck stiffness. Other symptoms include confusion or ...
and was buried in a cemetery in Florence. He was survived by his widow and two young sons.“Princess Yourievsky, Who as Princess Dolgorouki Wed Alexander II”
in ''New York Times
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'', March 11, 1913
On 6 October 1916, at Yalta, Catherine Baryatinsky married secondly Prince Serge Obolensky (1890–1978), a son of General Prince Platon Sergeievich Obolensky.[
According to a contemporary
]
Family
After the death of his father in 1910 and his grandfather in 1914, Andrei Alexandrovich Baryatinsky (1902–1944) inherited one of the richest estates in Russia, but was made destitute by the revolution. In 1925, he married Marie Paule Jedlinski (1906–1971), and they had one daughter, Elena (1927–1988), who was married three times. Andrei Alexandrovich earned a living by physical labor and died in Libya.
Alexander Alexandrovich Baryatinsky (1905–1992), a godson of Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich, was twice married, but did not have children. He died in Grants Pass, Oregon
Grants Pass is the county seat of Josephine County, Oregon, United States. The city is located on Interstate 5, northwest of Medford, along the Rogue River. The population was 39,189 at the 2020 census.
History
Early Hudson's Bay Company hunt ...
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See also
*Yury Baryatinsky
Yury Nikitich Baryatinski (russian: Юрий Никитич Барятинский; born in 1610, died in 1685) was a Tsardom of Russia, Russian knyaz, boyar and Voivode, voyevoda from the Rurikid house of Baryatinsky.
Baryatinsky was born as a so ...
*Aleksandr Baryatinsky
Prince Aleksandr Ivanovich Baryatinsky (russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Баря́тинский, tr. ; – 9 March 1879) was a Russian General and Field Marshal (from 1859), Prince, governor of the Caucasus.
Early life a ...
*Leonilla Bariatinskaya
Princess Leonilla Ivanovna Baryatinskaya, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (russian: link=no, Леонилла Ивановна Барятинская; 9 May 1816 – 1 February 1918) was a Russian aristocrat who married Ludwig, Prince of ...
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1870 births
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Russian princes
Socialites from the Russian Empire
Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 3rd class