Sofka Skipwith
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Sofka Skipwith was a Russian princess who, after working for Laurence Olivier and being interned by the Nazis in France in World War II, worked to save Jews from the Holocaust. She was honoured for he
Sofka Skipwith (c. 1925)
Bobrinsky
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The Counts Bobrinsky or Bobrinskoy are a Russian noble family descending from Count Aleksey Grigorievich Bobrinsky, who was Catherine the Great's illegitimate son by Count Grigory Orlov.
Sofka Skipwith
…one of the Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Skipwith was the only child of Prince Peter Dolgorukov and Countess Sophy Bobrinskaya (of House Bobrinsky). Her parents were married in 1907 in a service at a private church in the Winter Palace, followed by a service at the Bobrinsky Palace; the Romanov…
The Bobrinsky Palace on the Admiralty Canal Embankment
The first Count Bobrinsky
The Bogoroditsk Estate of the first count was designed by Ivan Starov and landscaped by Andrei Bolotov
The Bobrinsky burial vault in Bobriki