Serge Yourievitch
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Serge Youriévitch
Сергей Александрович Юрьевич
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| Born | March 31, 1876 Paris, France |
| Died | 18 December 1969 (aged 93) |
| Resting place | Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Statesman, artist |
| Spouse(s) | Princess Helene (née de Lipovatz) |
| Children | 2, including Princess Nika Yourievitch |
| Relatives | Sir Edward George Warris Hulton (son-in-law) |
| Awards |
Officer of the Legion of Honour
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Serge Youriévitch (Russian: Сергей Александрович Юрьевич, March 31, 1876 - December 18, 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."
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 Yurevich, 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 tsesarevich Alexander Nikolaevich, the future Emperor Alexander II, for which he was later made a Knight of the Order of the White Eagle
Youriévitch married Helene Lipovatz, daughter of (), a Montenegrin noble and Russian Imperial Army general and (Serbian: Јован Поповић-Липовац). 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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