Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley

HSH Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley (Владимир Павлович Палей) (January 9, 1897 -- July 18, 1918) was a Russian poet.
He was born Vladimir von Pistohlkors in Saint Petersburg, Russia. His parents were Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, the youngest child of Emperor Alexander II, and his father's mistress, Olga Valerianovna Paley, who was then still married to her first husband. In 1902, Grand Duke Paul—who had previously been married to Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark and had two children by her—wed Olga morganatically. In 1904, she was created Countess von Hohenfelsen by Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria, making Vladimir Count von Hohenfelsen. In 1915 Olga was created Princess Paley by Nicholas II, making Vladimir a prince.
He spent his childhood in Paris and later graduated from the Corps de Pages, an aristocratic military school in Saint Petersburg. He fought with the Russian army in the First World War and was decorated as a war hero with the Order of Saint Anne.
Even as a teenager Vladimir Paley showed remarkable talent as a poet. He published two volumes of poetry (1916 and 1918) and wrote several plays and essays, as well as a magnificent French translation of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovitch's play The King of the Jews.
In the summer of 1917 he and his family were placed for a short while under house arrest by the Provisional Government, because of a poem he wrote about Aleksandr Kerensky. In March 1918 he was arrested by the Bolsheviks and sent to exile in Vyatka and later Ekaterinburg and Alapaevsk. He was brutally murdered in a mineshaft near Alapaevsk, together with other relatives. Their bodies were recovered and buried months later in an Orthodox cemetery in Beijing, China, which was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

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[fabianoasc]

Another crime in the long list of victims of this odious communist regime.

[nastykurtbadboy]

a brutal killing at the almost end of the video. I just cannot and won't imagine how the few in the hole suffered.

[Duchessclotho]

That was very touching. I love the exerpts in between the pictures they are very informative. Thank you.

[ceasar70alexander]

A talented and handsome poet with tragic end...

[TheLoveBabyDoll]

good video!He is my favourite poet