Prince Vladimir Emmanuelovich Galitzine

Prince Vladimir Emanuelovich Galitzine (17 June 1884 – 15 July 1954) was a Russian émigré who lived in England. He was the Chairman of the Russian Society of Support to Russian Emigrants in England. Early life Galitzine was born on 17 June 1884 in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was one of four children born of Prince Emanuel Vasilievich Galitzine (1834–1892) and, his second wife, Ekaterina Nikolaevna Gordeeva. His father served in the Life Guards Horse-Grenadier Regiment. Vladimir and his elder brother, Nikolai, became orphans at a very early age and were brought up by their maternal uncle, Nikolai Gordeev and Valentina Sergeevna ( Ushakova) as they had no children of their own. Gordeev served as vice-governor of Riazan, governor of the Polish town of Płock, and governor of Kursk from 1903 until his death in 1906. After Gordeev's death, Valentina Sergeevna went to the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent (founded by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna) and gave the Yakshino estate in Tula to Prince Nikolai and Prince Vladimir. His paternal grandparents were Prince Vasili Sergeevich Galitzine, aide-de-camp to Emperor Alexander I (and a son of Prince Segei Ivanovich Galitzine), and Countess Adelaïda Pavlovna Stroganova (a daughter of Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov and Sophie Stroganova ( Princess Golitysn) and granddaughter of Prince Vladimir Borisovich Golitsyn and Natalya Golitsyna ( Countess Chernyshyova), who was the inspiration for The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin). In 1845, his grandmother inherited the Maryino Estate, a vast estate in the province of Novgorod (today the Tosno district in Leningrad region), from her mother. The estate was later inherited by her eldest son Prince Pavel Vasilievich Galitzine and his descendants. Career