Serge Youriévitch
French sculptor
Prince Serge Youriévitch (Russian: Сергей Александрович Юрьевич, 31 March 1876 - 18 December 1969) was a French sculptor of noble Russian birth, a statesman, writer, and one-time chamberlain to Emperor Nicholas II of Russia. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle described Youriévitch as a "Gentleman Farmer in Russia, Scientist in France, Diplomat in Russian Imperial Foreign Service, Painter, Etcher and Sculptor."
Family
Serge Youriévitch was born in 1876 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, into a family of petty Belarusian nobility. His Russian name was Sergei Alexandrovich Yurievich, which was translated into French as Serge Youriévitch.
His parents were Alexander Semyonovich Yurievich and Yelizaveta Andreyevna Yurievich. He had two older brothers, Simon (born 1870) and Alexander (born 1871). His grandfather, Semyon Yurievich (1798—1865), came from a noble family in Mogilyov (supposedly descended from Ivan the Terrible), in present-day Belarus. In 1825, he was appointed as a tutor to tsarevich Alexander Nikolaevich, the future Emperor Alexander II, for which he was later made a Knight of the Order of the White Eagle.
Youriévitch married Princess Helene Lipovatz, daughter of Prince Jovan Popović-Lipovac, a Montenegrin aristocrat and Russian Imperial Army general. General Popović-Lipovac led the 48th Division in the Russian Civil War, where he was wounded. Helene was a cousin of Princess Elena Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro.
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