One Man in His Time, Signed by Prince Serge Obolensky
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[Signed] Obolensky, Prince Serge. One Man in His Time, The Memoirs of Serge Obolensky. First Edition. 1958. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in good condition—jacket shows extensive repaired tears, fraying, and chipping. It is signed “Serge Obolensky” on the flyleaf.
Prince Obolensky might have been a man in his time, but his roots were in another period, 19th Century Russia. The son of a Russian prince, he was first married to the morganatic daughter of Czar Alexander II, with whom he fled Russia during the Revolution. When they divorced, he married a princess of the Gilded Age, Alice Astor—the daughter of John Jacob Astor. He was also close with his brother-in-law Vincent Astor for whom he managed the St. Regis Hotel. He recounts his incredible life story in this memoir, which begins in the glittering palaces of Imperial Russia and ends in the equally luminous lights of midcentury New York.
“We Obolenskys are always very emotional and not too physical in our relationships with girls.”
--Serge Obolensky
Prince Obolensky might have been a man in his time, but his roots were in another period, 19th Century Russia. The son of a Russian prince, he was first married to the morganatic daughter of Czar Alexander II, with whom he fled Russia during the Revolution. When they divorced, he married a princess of the Gilded Age, Alice Astor—the daughter of John Jacob Astor. He was also close with his brother-in-law Vincent Astor for whom he managed the St. Regis Hotel. He recounts his incredible life story in this memoir, which begins in the glittering palaces of Imperial Russia and ends in the equally luminous lights of midcentury New York.
“We Obolenskys are always very emotional and not too physical in our relationships with girls.”
--Serge Obolensky
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