Dimitri Obolensky
| Sir Dimitri Obolensky | |
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| Born | Prince Dmitriy Dmitrievich Obolensky 19 March/1 April 1918 St Petersburg |
| Died | 23 December 2001 (aged 83) Burford, Oxfordshire |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Nationality | naturalised British |
| Ethnicity | Russian |
| Notable works |
The Byzantine commonwealth (1971) Bread of Exile: a Russian family, , Harvill Press |
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Sir Dimitri Obolensky FBA (19 March/1 April 1918 in St Petersburg – 23 December 2001 in Burford, Oxfordshire) was a Russian-born historian who settled in Britain and became Professor of Russian and Balkan History at the University of Oxford and the author of various historical works.
Prince Dimitri Dimitrievich Obolensky was born in Russia on 1 April 1918 in St Petersburg, the son of Prince Dimitri Alexandrovich Obolensky (1882–1964) and Countess Maria (Shuvalov) (1894–1973). His family was descended from Rurik, Igor, Svyatoslav, St Vladimir of Kiev, St Michael of Chernigov, and Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov - however, as one of his students has written, "he was a sober enough scholar to know that Riurik may not actually have existed." After the Russian Revolution, the Royal Navy helped the Obolensky family to escape from Russia in 1919, together with the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna and the Grand Duke Nicholas. He was educated in Britain at Lynchmere Preparatory School, Eastbourne, and in France at the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine, before going up to Trinity College, where he distinguished himself with a Blue for lawn tennis and graduated in 1940.
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