Polish and other Slavic nobility in our time

Seanus

The Radziwiłł family

is still very active in this organization:

If New York seemed too quiet this month it's because everyone skipped town for chicer climes. We've been covering the Sundance scene and now turn our attention to the glamorous Alps, where Derek Blasberg tweeted from the top o' the mountain and attended the wedding of Vogue's Devon Schuster to childhood sweetheart Philip Radziwill in the first fairytale wedding of 2010.

The wedding took place on January 15 and 16 in Gstaad, Switzerland, at a chalet belonging to the family of Radziwill, and lasted well into the night (as all good weddings should). As for the guest list, imagine all the cool lunch tables in the high school cafeteria converging on one dance floor. Besides Derek and the equally chatty Lyle Maltz were Minnie Mortimer, Lauren and Andres Santo Domingo,Bettina Prentice, and Devon's fellow Voguettes Meredith Melling Burke and Sylvana Soto-Ward.

Devon is a Vogue staffer, and Philip, grandson of Prince Stanislaw Albrecht Radziwill who was once married to Jacqueline Kennedy's sister Lee, is a London-born banker. They registered at Tiffany, Bloomingdale's, and Williams Sonoma and have a wedding website hosted by Wedding Channel.

Congratulations to the happy couple!

It goes without saying that many people have long been fascinated with Jackie Onassis- no surprise there. But Jackie's sister Lee Radziwill is also a style icon, albeit one who still stands in the shadow of her more famous sister. Certainly Radziwill is known for her keen fashion sense, but she seems to be quite confident in how she chooses to live (I'm talking about the actual interiors of her homes- NOT her personal life!).

The dining room of Radziwill's country house Turville Grange c. 1971. The walls were covered in Sicilian scarves that had been lacquered. Painted panels were superimposed over the scarves. If this was not designed by Mongiardino, it certainly looks it.

The garden room of Turville Grange certainly had an English country house feel, but some of the furniture gave it a modern twist.

The front hall at Turville Grange, again c. 1971

The dining room of Radziwill's Fifth Avenue apartment, c. mid-1970s. The walls were covered in silk moire. Don't you think the Regency dining chairs and pedestal table are stunning?

I think this is one of my favorite rooms in Radziwill's New York apartment. The walls of the library were covered in blue-gray fabric, which was also used for the curtains. You can't really see any delineation between the window treatments and the walls.

The drawing room was also a vision in red.

Stanisław Albrecht "Stash" Radziwiłł (21 July 1914 – 27 July 1976) was a Polish former prince, born in Szpanów, Poland.

His parents were Janusz Franciszek, Prince Radziwiłł (1880-1967) and Anna, Princess Lubomirska (1882-1947). Stanisław had two elder brothers, Edmund Radziwill (1906-1971) and Ludwik Radziwill (1911-1928). His mother, who came from a Polish noble family, died in a Soviet labour camp in the USSR.

Marriages

For the third time, he was married on 19 March 1959, in Fairfax, Virginia, to Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield (1933—); they divorced in 1974. They had two children, Anthony Radziwill (married Carole Ann DiFalco) and Anna Christina Radziwill (Mrs Ottavio Arancio).

Radziwiłł

For their service to theh country (usually miliatry service or defending the lord's castle) especially in the poor Podlasie region entire villages were ennobled.

entire villages were ennobled

Can you imagine "my gram Herr Baron?"

If nobles, aristocracy become such a great number of a people they stop to be noble aristocracy in the sense it is meant to be.

Please elaborate and tell us what things were really like.

For their service to theh country (usually miliatry service or defending the lord's castle) especially in the poor Podlasie region entire villages were ennobled.

Bronisław Komorowski comes from noble family. His coat of arms is Korczak.

Bronisław Maria Komorowski, of Clan Korczak (born 4 June 1952) is the Acting President of Poland. When Lech Kaczyński, the President of Poland, died in a plane crash on 10 April 2010, presidential powers and duties automatically transferred to Komorowski because he was Marshal of the Sejm (Speaker of Parliament). His position as Acting President is temporary, and Komorowski remains in his role as Speaker, at least until a presidential election can be held. Komorowski is also the Civic Platform government's presidential candidate in that election, due to be held on 20 June 2010.

Youth

Bronisław Maria Komorowski was born in Oborniki Śląskie. Komorowski is the son of Count Zygmunt Leon Komorowski (1924–1993) and Jadwiga Komorowska (née Szalkowska) (1921–). His family comes from the territory of Aukštaitija, northern Lithuania, and the Komorowski family for 200 years ruled Żywiecczyzna in Poland. He is distantly related to Princess Mathilde of Belgium, Duchess of Brabant, via her mother Anna Countess d'Udekem d'Acoz born Countess Komorowska. From 1957 to 1959 he lived in Józefów near Otwock. From 1959 to 1966 he also attended elementary school in Pruszków. In 1966 he transferred to Warsaw and graduated from Cyprian Kamil Norwid High School no. 24.

BBC offers this video http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ifs_news/hi/newsid_4720000/newsid_4 728800/nb_rm_4728800.stm highlighting how the descendents of the Tsars--and the nouveau riche of Russia and abroad--are looking back to Imperial Russia for inspiration to create identities in post-Communist Russia. Because most everyone who was alive during the last reign of the Romanovs survive now in the genes of their grandchildren, the titled nobles can imitate but a perception of the Russia that existed before Nicholas II was deposed. Is this romantic, pathetic, or something else? Share your thoughts about the heirs of the Russian throne in the forum or start a discussion on a topic of your choice.

The Russian Nobility Association was incorporated in America in 1938. It is a non-political, non-profit organization. Its aims are philanthropic and genealogical.

The Association directs donations to charitable organizations which provide food, shelter and medical treatment for disadvantaged persons in Russia, Europe, South America and the United States. It also provides direct aid to orphanages, the indigent elderly, seminaries and other people in need.

Voting membership is exclusively reserved to descendants of individuals who were listed in the nobility archives of the former Russian Imperial Senate. Other membership categories exist. For historical purposes, titled members are recorded with their ancestral titles.

It is our pleasure to announce that the First Russian Nobility Ball in Texas, on the 10th of November, 2006, preceded by the Pre-Ball Reception (on the 9th of November, 2006) at Mr. L. Hokanson and Mr. M. Siller's Russian House in Houston(http://www.artsstudio.com/reproductions/new_archdesign-dec2001 .htm), were complete and astounding SUCCESS!!!

do you have some info on any existing Polish nobility?

You mean like nobilty, Aristocrats, or family's with rich titles?

My family come from a Polish/German poor noble family

Those who read Polish

yes, yes

Opponent of the reforms of the Great Sejm (1788-1792), supporter of the Targowica Confederation. Sentenced to death in absentia by the Supreme Criminal Court during the Kościuszko Uprising (1794).