The
Board of Directors of the Russian Nobility Association in America is
sad to announce the death on July 9 of Princess Irina S.
Bagration-Mukhrani.
Princess Bagration was 89 years old, she was a cornerstone of the Russian and Georgian emigration in New York.
Countess
Irina S. Chernyshev-Bezobrazov was born in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France,
26 September 1926, and was the youngest daughter of Count Sergei
Alexandrovich Chernyshev-Bezobrazov and his wife, nee Countess
Elizabeth Sheremetevoie.
She was educated privately.
Irina S. and her older sister grew up in the center of emigre circles in France and Germany between the wars.
The
elder sister of Irina, Countess Xenia S. Chernyshev-Bezobrazov was
married to Archduke Rudolf of Austria Syringus, the younger son of
Charles I, the last emperor of Austria-Hungary.
After World War II Irina S. moved to the United States, where she met Prince Teymuraz Konstantinovich Bagration of Mukhrani.
The marriage took place on November 27, 1949 in New York.
He was 37 years old, she was 23 years old.
They had no children.
Prince
Bagration was the son of Prince Konstantin Aleksandrovich
Bagration-Muhranskogo, a descendant of the senior branch of the former
Georgian Royal House, and his wife, Russian Princess Tatiana
Konstantinovna
.
Tatiana
K., the daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich and his wife,
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievny, nee Princess of Saxe-Altenburg.
After emigration during the revolution with her mother and sister, Prince Teimuraz moved to Serbia, where during the war he served in the Royal Yugoslav Army.
In 1947, he moved to New York.
Prince Teimuraz in 1949 was invited to the Tolstoy Foundation, where in 1979 he became Executive Director and directly supervised the Fund from 1986 until his death in New York in 1992.
July 5, 2007, Princess Bagration gave her husband's unique archive, to the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia.
The
funeral of Princess Irina S. Bagration-Mukhrani will be held at Holy
Trinity Russian Orthodox Church in Astoria, New York at 10:00 am on
Saturday, July 11, followed by burial in the cemetery of Novo-Diveevo
monastery in Spring Valley, New York.
Photo: Princess Irina and her husband, Prince Teimuraz.
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