Princess Marina Alexandrovna Chavchavadze

Russian Princess. Writer, author of "Man's Concern with Holiness" (1970). Her father Alexander Chavchavadze was executed in Georgia in 1931. Mother Maria Vladimirovna Chavchavadze, nee Rodzianko, sister of Paul Rodzianko. Marina was cremated 6.10.1994.

Princess Marina liked to be known as just "Miss Chavchavdze" in the UK despite her Imperial origins and having been born in an Imperial Palace in St Petersburg. Her family had been heavily inter-married with the Romanovs for generations. She is most well known in England for being a co-founder of the 'Dorothy Kerin Home of Healing', a Christian healing nursing home and retreat (now known as the "Burrswood Trust". Near Tunbridge Wells in Kent,UK.)... it was named after Princess Marina's schoolfriend Dorothy. Princess Marina's mother was a lady in waiting to the last Tsaritsa (Alexandra) and Marina had fascinating memories of Court life in the St Petersburg palaces and remembered details like the starets Rasputin being summoned to Tsarskoe Selo when the tragic Tsesarevitch Aleksei suffered a haemophilic episode. Marina was just a year younger than Aleksei and would probably have been one of the longest surviving people to have known and remembered the heroic 'Heir' as a child before the eventual massacre of the Romanovs at Yekaterinberg. Her brother Paul became a leading Georgian language translator and academic in the USA and the younger of her brothers, George, also in America a noted concert pianist.

“CHAVCHAVADZE. On 27th September 1994, at Burrswood, The Princess Marina Chavchavadze. Private funeral at the Monastery of St John the Baptist, Tolleshunt Knights, at 11 am on Tuesday 4th October. A Memorial Service will be held on Tuesday 11th October at 3 pm at Burrswood.” (The Times (London, England), Wednesday, September 28, 1994.

Писательница, автор книги "Забота человека о святости" (1970 год).
Наиболее известна в Англии как соучредительница "Дома исцеления Дороти Керин" - христианского лечебного дома престарелых.