Princess Varvara Alexandrovna Dolgoruky, Later Kotchoubey: Gone Forever Private Memoir Publication for the Romanof...

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Princess Varvara Alexandrovna Dolgoruky, Later Kotchoubey: Gone Forever Private Memoir Publication for the Romanoff, Kotchoubey and Woronzoff-Dashkoff Families
1973

Kotchoubey, Varvara Alexandrovna (born Princess Dolgoruky) Autograph bound copy, three volumes of her memoirs "Gone Forever" being the unpublished memoirs of Princess Varvara Alexandrovna Dolgorukaya, later Kotchoubey, known to the family as "Aunt Varinka" and written in 1973, with dedication inscription "To Dear Alexander / and Mimi with love / from Aunt Varinka / 1973."



PROVENANCE:
Princess Varvara Alexandrovna Dolgoruky, Mme. Kotchoubey;
Prince Alexander Nikitch Romanoff;
Princess Maria Romanoff.



Princess Varvara Alexandrovna Dolgoruky was born December 7, 1885, in St. Petersburg, the daughter of Prince Alexander Sergeevich Dolgoruky and his wife, Princess Olga Petrovna, born Countess Shouvaloff. Educated privately, she became a lady in waiting to the last two empresses, and emigrated during the revolution. In 1973, she privately published her memoirs "Gone Forever" dedicated to "some of my nephews, nieces, grandnephews and grandnieces, by their Aunt Varinka". She died in Rome on April 8, 1980.

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