Pavlovsk Park Long Ago and Forever: Scouting as a Factor in 20th Century Russian Self-Identity An online lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Zelensky This talk will discuss the relationship between liberalism, scouting, and childhood in both late Imperial Russia and among the Russian diaspora from 1920-1991. [...]
Nicholas Nicholson, Curator Another Narrow Escape Princess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia had only thirty minutes to pack her things and leave the castle of Altenburg in Germany where she had lived since 1938. The Soviet forces could arrive at any [...]
On January 11, 2001, Vera Konstantinovna of Russia, Princess of the Blood Imperial and great-granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I, died in Valley Cottage, New York, where she had lived for many years at the home for the elderly at the Tolstoy Foundation. On the 20th [...]
On April 12, 2007, the State Museum "Pavlovsk", near St. Petersburg, opened an exhibition dedicated to Princess Vera Konstantinovna Romanova, daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov (also known as the poet "K.R."), and the 100th anniversary of her birth. Representing the Russian History [...]
