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A JEWELED AND ENAMELED GOLD IMPERIAL PRESENTATION SNUFF BOX MARKED K. HAHN, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF CARL BLANK, ST. PETERSBURG, 1899 Presented by Emperor Nicholas II to Dimitri Stancioff, Bulgarian Diplomatic Agent in St. Petersburg, on the occasion of the Hague Convention of 1899. 3 ¾ in. (9.5 cm.) wide $120,000-180,000

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03849-109274_RussianNobilityAsso RSN nobility 1 Ball Journal 2015.indd 2 4/30/154/3/15 9:541:40 PM Russian Nobility Association Spring Ball 2015 Under The Gracious Patronage of T.H. Prince and Princess Dimitri Romanoff T.H. Prince and Princess AndrewRomanoff H.H. Princess NicholasRomanoff H.H. Princess Nikita Romanoff H.H. Princess Alexander Romanoff Executive Committee

Chair

mrs. olga miklashewsky

Co-Chairs

mr. warren c. hutchins mrs. maria holodny mr. nicholas b. a. nicholson

Executive Secretary

princess elizabeth galitzine

Honorary Chairs

Princess Tatiana V. Galitzine Mrs. Veronica Atkins Mrs. Irina Dvorjitsky San Filippo Prince Ivan Obolensky

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Board of Directors

dr. cyril e. geacintov president

prince vladimir c. galitzine vice president

prince ivan obolensky vice president & treasurer

mrs. irina dvorjitsky-san filippo secretary

dr. pavel efremkin

mr. warren c. hutchins

mr. igor miklashewsky

mr. alexandr neratoff

mr. konstantin pio-ulsky

mr. john pouschine

mr. peter tcherepnine

mr. paul wadkovsky

miss tatyana zakharova

Presidents

prince alexis obolensky, sr. 1936 - 1939

mr. vassilii wadkovsky 1939 - 1941

count boris von berg 1941 - 1942

count paul de kotzeboue 1942 - 1953

prince leonid eletskoy 1954 - 1958

prince serge belosselsky-belozersky 1958 - 1963

col. peter martynov 1963 - 1971

prince alexis scherbatow 1971 - 2002

dr. cyril e. geacintov 2002 -

9274_RussianNobilityAsso Ball Journal 2015.indd 4 4/30/15 1:40 PM International Committee Honorary Chairs

princess david chavchavadze

count and countess nicholas cheremeteff

mr. and mrs. rajaa chouairi

h.s.h. prince jerome von colloredo-mansfield

prince and princess andré p. gagarin

mrs. marina wolkonsky galesi

prince andrei k. galitzine

princess katya galitzine

prince piotr galitzine

h.r.h. princess alexandra of greece

rev. dr. and mrs. kenneth gunn-walberg

t.i. and r.h. archduke and archduchess géza von habsburg

baroness maya de haynau

countess monica ignatiew

countess marina von kamarovsky

mr. and mrs. nicholas kotchoubey

t.h. duke and duchess huno von oldenburg

h.r.h. prince jean d’orléans, duc de vendôme

count and countess andrei tolstoy-miloslavsky

h.s.h. the prince karel zu schwarzenberg

count and countess andrei stenbock-fermor

h.s.h. princess stephanie zu windisch-graetz

h.r.h. prince michael of yugoslavia

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count pierre apraxine mrs. lucy puig neis

miss helena ashton mr. thomas nugent

miss dominique de benckendorff prince sergei ourusoff

mrs. barbara brookes princess alexis n. obolensky

princess maria chavchavadze princess lucretia obolensky

countess kyra cheremeteff and mme. elena orlukova

mr. thomas william richardson mr. and mrs. peter oudolsky

mr. valera danchenko princess eugenia gagarin pujol and

mrs. natalia duncan duke of mayola raoul pujol

mrs. pavel efremkin mrs. konstantin pio-ulsky

mr. and mrs. adrian fedorowski mr. and mrs. andrew pogogeff

prince gregorii galitzine mr. blair pogue

princess nina galitzine mrs. john pouschine

mrs. cyril geacintov miss elizabeth rosen

mr. and mrs. michael markoff george dr. robert ritch and rivichi saito

bryan gere, khan djangir prince chingiz mr. and mrs. peter sareyani

mrs. elizabeth guest mr. and mrs. john schiavetta

mr. and mrs. thomas c. hills mr. and mrs. theodore selinsky

prof. andrei holodny mr. ian serjantov

mrs. elena shemetoff hutchins miss diane m. a. procofieff de seversky

mr. & mrs. peter jachno mr. serge shohov

mr. michael jordan princess anne sidamon-eristoff

mrs. tatiana sarandinaki-kadaria mr. vladimir sushko

mrs. natalya kasyanova mrs. peter tcherepnine

miss virginia kinzey mr. andrei tiajoloff

mrs. milos knorr dr. wellington s. tichenor

miss natasha konon mrs. paul wadkovsky

mme. natalia kolodzei dr. and mrs. donald ross whitaker

mrs. tatiana kolodzei mrs. robert d. wickham

mr. and mrs. vladimir kowalenko h.s.h. princess elena n. wolkonsky

mr. eric alexander kuzmuk h.s.h. prince oleg a. wolkonsky

mr. jacques leviant count and countess alexander

miss elizabeth m. miheyev woronzoff-dashkoff

miss priscilla mcostrich mr. and mrs. ilya zerakhto

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Co-Chairs

miss marisa wadkovsky, mr. christopher spiro

and miss elena holodny

mr. vsevolod belikow mr. and mrs. dmitri konon

miss anna bredikhina mr. and mrs. peter miller

count alexander cheremeteff mr. gregory nedeltscheff

count nicolas cheremeteff mr. daniel oudolsky

miss natasha dashkova mr. and mrs. john paschenko

miss katherine djurdjinovic mr. alexander pouschine

mr. alexander djurdjinovic miss bessie rentzler

princess anna galitzine mr. michael revis

princess alexandra galitzine mr. serge sarandinaki

miss anastasia gouliaeva mr. michael sareyani

miss nadejda grankina miss darya schiavetta

mr. gregory guest mr. aleksandr schiavetta

mr. andre jordan mr. maxim schidlovsky

miss kira jordan mr. isaiah trofimenko

miss nina kafozoff mr. peter wolkow

miss katherine krassovsky

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T H E C I T Y O F N EW Y O RK O FFI CE O F T H E M AYOR N EW Y O RK , NY 10007

May 8, 2015

Dear Friends:

I am delighted to welcome everyone to the Russian Nobility Association in America’s Annual Spring Ball.

Our City’s rich cultural diversity is the source of its singularity and strength and it is sustained by many wonderful organizations throughout the five boroughs that foster fellowship and preserve the storied traditions of their communities. Whether hosting festivities like tonight’s, orchestrating fundraising campaigns for Russian youth, helping seniors access critical health services or providing scholarships for hardworking students, RNA exemplifies the generosity and tenacity that define New York. As my team and I work to lift up New Yorkers from all backgrounds and walks of life, I am grateful for its complementary efforts.

On behalf of the City of New York, best wishes for a wonderful celebration and continued success.

Sincerely,

Bill de Blasio Mayor

9274_RussianNobilityAsso Ball Journal 2015.indd 8 4/30/15 1:40 PM 9274_RussianNobilityAsso Ball Journal 2015.indd 9 4/30/15 1:40 PM TheThe RussianRussian NobilityNobility Association Association TodayToday

Our Goals

The Russian Nobility Association, Inc. was formed in 1933 in order to realize two important goals: T to maintain historical truths about Russia and to provide humanitarian assistance. On the one hand, the Association’s aims are genealogical and historical. It seeks to preserve cultural memories and national truths of Russian history which, during the Communist regime, were threatened with extinction. It maintains a library of historical documents. From time to time, the Association hosts lectures in Russian history to raise funds, a portion of which is directed to educational resources. The Association’s aims are thus also philanthropic. To this end, it hosts an annual Russian Spring Ball. Organized by members of the Ball Committee of the Russian Nobility Association, the Spring Ball is the Association’s largest fund raising event of the year. This event allows the Association to realize its most important humanitarian goal: the assistance of disadvantaged persons both in and outside of Russia who need medical treatment, food and shelter.

Who Receives the Bulk of our Support? The philanthropic and charitable distributions of the RNA are and have been directed to T orphanages, scouts, old age homes, scholarships for college students, literary journals, and other needy projects, organizations and individuals. Funds are distributed both in the United States and abroad.

A Word of Thanks T he Association cannot provide volunteer and financial support for its philanthropic causes T without your help. It wishes to express its heartfelt gratitude to the compassionate benefactors and supporters who have given so generously of their time, services and financial resources – and who have thus made a true and tangible difference in the lives of others. Thanks go to our corporate sponsors, our loyal and generous patrons, entertainers and musicians, and of course to the hardworking members of the Ball Committee, especially the Juniors.

9274_RussianNobilityAsso Ball Journal 2015.indd 10 4/30/15 1:40 PM Nobility Nobility Today AA t first glance, the idea of nobility – even the word itself – seems rather dated today. When nobility is invoked, it is usually to sell fashion magazines or Hollywood merchandise. Nobility invariably clashes with the strictures of our founding fathers who suppressed titles as incompatible with democracy. Even so, the old word, like another old word, “honor,” has an important cultural value. Americans from all walks of life are paying greater attention to their forbears; we are beginning to admire the achievements of our own and others’ ancestors. In Russia today, there is an intense interest in the direct descendants of the nobility, an interest that occasionally borders on the excessive, and includes the fabrication of titles and the assuming of historical family names. But the search for ancestors and identity and the celebration of the accomplishments of one’s predecessors reflect a legitimate and necessary commitment to the past. This commitment takes on an added urgency after 75 years of communist suppression and the liquidation of the nobility as a class (not to mention the clergy, the intellectuals and kulaks). In Russian history, the nobility, or more precisely the “service gentry” (dvoryanye) was known (the word “noble” is derived from the Latin notus – to know) for the ideal of service to the state and the community. When established the Table of Ranks in 1722, ennoblement was made attainable through state service. The dvoryanye were responsible for defending the state against invaders, for organizing agriculture, and for advising the Czars and their governments. Service carried a sense of honor, and was considered not just a civic duty, but a privilege. It is noteworthy that women participated in this ideal of service, demonstrating civic responsibility through charitable work. During the First World War, the daughters of Tsar Nicholas II actively assisted in the care of the sick and the wounded. In the field of culture, the Russian nobility created the Golden Age of Russian Literature and the Arts, producing Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Diaghelev, Tchaikovsky, Berdayev, Nabokov and Akhmatova. The spiritual heirs and beneficiaries of the culture of the gentry come from all walks of life. Indeed, Russia is united in its love for its literary heroes and today there is a strong movement to restore their houses and emulate their virtues. An important social and aesthetic expression of the Russian nobility was the ball. Introduced to Russia by Peter the Great, the ball was seen as a means of cultivating beauty, manners and morality, and as a way to bring people together in friendship and harmony through music and dance. In our electronic age, such public sharing of values is a rare privilege. Since the Revolution, the exiled nobility that makes up much of the “First Wave” of emigration has become self-sacrificing in exile, entering the priesthood and engaging in charitable work. When we consider the word nobility today, the ideals of service, charity, personal integrity and the importance of community come to mind. To conclude with the words of the aristocratic poet W. B. Yeats (an ideal not always lived up to but always in mind): “Yes, we desire to preserve into the modern life that ideal (of) four ancient virtues: First, honesty amongst one’s friends. Second courage amongst one’s enemies. Third, generosity amongst the weak. Fourth, courtesy at all times, whatsoever.”

Our thanks to Dr. Arkadi Nebolsine for the contents of this page.

9274_RussianNobilityAsso Ball Journal 2015.indd 11 4/30/15 1:40 PM THEThe PRINCE Prince ALEXIS Alexis SCHERBATOW Scherbatow SCHOLARSHIPScholarship Fund FUND

Again this year it is a pleasure to announce that our Scherbatow Scholarship Fund has awarded significant financial grants to several deserving young students for the cur- rent academic year. The Prince Alexis Scherbatow Scholarship Fund was established after his death in 2003 to celebrate his life and achievements. He had served for thirty-one years as Pres- ident of the Russian Nobility Association in America. He taught history and political science, earned a PhD from Columbia University, worked for The Tolstoy Founda- tion, aiding Russian immigrants. He received many honors and tributes from Russian, European and American organizations for his contributions to historical studies. His memoirs are his “Claim to the Past - that past that belongs to Russia because it was for Russia that my forbears worked and wrote”. This year’s scholarship recipients were selected based on a combination of academic re- cord, perceived potential to further RNA ideals and goals, character, and financial need. We are pleased to have been able to assist these young people with part of the cost of their education and are most grateful to those whose donations have made this possible. Additional contributions to the Fund (fully tax deductible) are needed and encouraged. Donations may be made by check to Russian Nobility Association & sent to Att: Mrs. Roberta Maged, DRG International Inc. 841 Mountain Avenue, Springfield, NJ 07081

9274_RussianNobilityAsso Ball Journal 2015.indd 12 4/30/15 1:40 PM The RussianTHE RUSSIAN NOBILITYNobility ASSOCIATION Association MembershipMEMBERSHIP InformationINFORMATION

The Russian Nobility Association has four classes of membership and welcomes applications from interested individuals. The four classes are:

A) Voting members: Direct descendents of individuals listed in Russia’s Nobility Archives.

B) Associate members: Individuals whose lineage is through the maternal line.

C) Lineage Affiliates members: Individuals whose nobility historically predates the immediate maternal line.

D) Colleague members: individuals whose efforts and activities support the goals and ideals of the organization.

For further membership information and application forms please call Mrs. Roberta Maged at 973-564-7555 or email her at “[email protected]

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And thank you to all who support us

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9274_RussianNobilityAsso Ball Journal 2015.indd 30 4/30/15 1:40 PM Silent Auction The Russian Nobility Ball • The Pierre Hotel, May 8, 2015 The Benefit Dance Committee gratefully acknowledges the following donations. See minimum bids at bidding table. Winners will be announced at the ball. Ultimate Getaway to Monte-Carlo Courtesy of the Monaco Government Tourist Office, Swiss International Air Lines and SBM’s Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo. Value $12,000 Faberge Tribute Series “Imperial Eggs” – charcoal and Courtesy of the Artist. Value $10,000 gold on canvas – by Maestro Igor Babailov, Hon. RAA Viking River Cruises – 8 day cruise for (2) – Courtesy of Viking River Cruises. Value from $4,999 choice of 5 itineraries Glimmerglass Festival & Opera – Courtesy of The Glimmerglass Festival management. 2 tickets for each of four summer performances Value $1,000 Décor Gold Plated La Perle Champagne Set for 6 – Courtesy of Mirjana Živković, Consul General of the Zepter International (USA) Inc. Republic of Serbia. Value $900 Amber Necklace Courtesy of Valerio. Value $600

Cue Stick from Henry W. T. Mali & Co. Courtesy of Princess Lucretia Obolensky. Value $525

English Vase – 1860-1870 Courtesy of Mr. John Macenka. Value $500

Pair of vintage Bohemian glass vases Courtesy of Dr. and Mrs. A. Holodny. Value $500

“The Best Seller Luxury Beauty Basket” – Courtesy of Public Relations Team at L’OCCITANE. L’OCCITANE EN PROVENCE Value $375 New York City Helicopter Tour for two Courtesy of Blue Star Jets. Value $300

Three etchings in one frame, limited edition - from the series Courtesy of the artist. Value $300 “Rare Plants”- by Anna Plavinskaya

Museum Reproductions - Faberge style egg necklace Courtesy of Tatiana Sarandinaki-Kadaria. Value $275

Original, custom framed Pierre Balmain fashion print Courtesy of Mr. Michael Revis. Value $200 from 1920 “Ultimate Combo Pack” from Nerium Courtesy of Alexandra Paschenko (AlexandraNY.nerium.com) Value $275 Cufflinks – handmade ornamental texturing Courtesy of Alex Soldier. Value $270

Sirio Restaurant at the Hotel Pierre – Dinner for Two Courtesy of the management. Value $200

“Tulip Tree”– etching – limited edition – Courtesy of artist. Value $175 by Anna Plavinskaya Duet Brasserie – Dinner for two Courtesy of management.

“Tales of Sheherazade” – hand crafted necklace and earrings Courtesy of designer. Value $250 By Kira Koktysh “Royal Russia Annuals” – full set of 7 issues Courtesy of Mr. Paul Gilbert, Royal Russia Bookshop. Value $140 Tsar Alexander lll Commemorative Plate - French markings Courtesy of Rachelle Oatman. Value $175 late nineteenth century Admission tickets to Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Courtesy of RIPLEYSNY. Value $130 Times Square for 4 Coronation of Alexander ll – print Courtesy of Mr. Michael Revis. Value $125

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Sequin Chiffon Capelet Top Courtesy of Joan Rivers Worldwide Enterprises. Value $72 “Poetry of Form” – book by Dimitry Gerrman Courtesy of Ms. Natalia Kolodzei. Value $55

Joan Rivers Tribal Chic 24” Necklace Courtesy of Joan Rivers Worldwide Enterprises. Value $65 Big Apple Bee Pin Courtesy of Joan Rivers Worldwide Enterprises. Value $45 Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library Courtesy of management. Value $40

Longwood Gardens – two complimentary admission tickets Courtesy of Longwood Gardens. Value $40

“Taste of Russia” – 3rd edition Courtesy R.I.S. Publications. Value $25

“Little Humpbacked Horse” Courtesy R.I.S. Publications. Value $16

“Russians in the USA”- by O. Zatsepina & A. B. Ruchkin Courtesy of authors. Value priceless.

Gelsey Kirkland Ballet’s “Don Quioxte” - 2 tickets Courtesy of Gelsey Kirkland Ballet. Value $120

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Ciroc Premium Vodka Courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Jachno

Amber and silver pins Courtesy of Valerio

“AHMAD” assorted teas Courtesy of AHMAD TEA USA, [email protected] Flyers from “Royal Russia Bookshop” Courtesy of Mr. Paul Gilbert, [email protected] Monaco Gift Bags Courtesy of the Monaco Government Tourist Agency

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