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Serge Obolensky
Prince + President
Male
Born
Nov 3, 1890
Hometown
Saint Petersburg,...
Died
Sep 29, 1978
Death Place
Grosse Pointe Far...
Sergei Platonovich 5th Knyaz Obolensky-Neledinsky-Meletzky was a Russian Prince and Vice Chairman of the Board of Hilton Hotels Corporation.
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Serge Obolensky
d.1978
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Frankly, My DearNYTimes - Sep 02, 2007
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Close To HomeNYTimes - Jan 18, 1990
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CHILDHOOD
1890
Birth
Born on November 3, 1890.
TWENTIES
1916
25 Years Old
He married firstly Alexander II of Russia's daughter, Catherine Alexandrovna Yurievskaya (1878-1959) at Yalta on 6 October 1916.
THIRTIES
1924
33 Years Old
He divorced Catherine in 1924 without any issue and then Obolensky married Ava Alice Muriel Astor in London, Middlesex, on 24 July 1924, divorcing in 1932.
FIFTIES
He was a soldier in two World Wars and in the Russian Civil War. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. paratroopers and a member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), forerunner of the CIA, and made his first five jumps in 1943 at the age of 53.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1958
67 Years Old
In 1958, he was Vice Chairman of the Board of Hilton Hotels Corporation.
1971
80 Years Old
Obolensky married Marilyn Fraser-Wall of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan on 3 June 1971, with whom he did not have issue.
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