Princess Nika Yourievitch

Princess Nika Yourievitch (formerly Lady Hulton; 2 August 1916 – 17 September 1995) was a French-born socialite and author, descended from Russian and Montenegrin nobility. She married Sir Edward George Warris Hulton, son of Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet.

Princess Nika Yourievitch
Born2 August 1916
Paris, France
Died17 September 1995(1995-09-17) (aged 79)
BuriedSainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery, Paris, France
Spouse(s)Sir Edward Hulton (1941-1966)
Issue3
FatherPrince Serge Youriévitch
MotherPrincess Helene de Lipovatz
RelativesSir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet
Elena of Montenegro

Yourievitch was described as "very good-looking, wild and extravagant" by Woodrow Wyatt,[1] regularly hosted grand parties in London, and was very involved in the high society social scene of the time. She was also known for her large art collection.[2]

Biography

Princess Nika Yourievitch was born on 2 August 1916, the second daughter of Prince Serge Youriévitch, a sculptor and diplomat of Russian nobility, and Montenegrin Princess Helene de Lipovatz.[3] Princess Lipovatz was the daughter of Prince Jovan Popović-Lipovac (Serbian: Јован Поповић-Липовац), a Montenegrin prince and Russian Imperial Army general.[4] General Popović-Lipovac led the 48th Division in the Russian Civil War, where he was wounded.[5] Princess Lipovatz was also cousin of Princess Elena Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro, making Yourievitch first cousins once removed to the Queen of Italy.[6]

Princess Nika's father Serge had served as chamberlain to the last Emperor, Nicholas II of Russia.[7] He was a friend and pupil of the sculptor Auguste Rodin before becoming an accomplished sculptor himself, connecting his family to French art society.[8]

Princess Nika was brought up in Paris, where many Russian nobility fled after the Russian Revolution. Her parents lived between Paris and Russia, and after the fall of the Imperial reign lost their Russian property in Saratov.[9]

In 1941, Yourievitch married media magnate Sir Edward George Warris Hulton as his second wife.[10] Hulton had formerly been married to Kira Goudime-Levkovitsch, another Russian aristocrat who had fled Russia after Nicholas II's fall.[11]

Together, Yourievitch and Hulton had two sons and one daughter: Edward Alexander Sergius Hulton, Cosmo Philip Paul Hulton, and Elizabeth Frances Helen Hulton.[12]

The marriage between Yourievitch and Hulton was dissolved in 1966, though the two lived together again for the last nine years of Hulton's life before he died on 8 October 1988.[13]

Death

Yourievitch died 17 September 1995. She was buried in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery in France, alongside her parents and Hulton.

Other

Yourievitch was also noted for her renowned collection of Paul Klee artwork.[14]

Works
  • Lady Nika Hulton (1958). First Steps in Art Appreciation. New York: Pitman Pub. Corp.
  • Lady Nika Hulton (1960). The Witch. Rupert Hart-Davis.
  • Lady Nika Hulton (1977). The General. London: Springwood Books Ltd. ISBN 9780905947105.

References
  1. Wyatt, Woodrow (1998). The journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Volume 1. Macmillan. ISBN 9780333741665. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  2. Wynne-Tyson, Jon (2004). Finding the Words: A Publishing Life. Michael Russell. p. 105. ISBN 9780859552875.
  3. Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died, Volume 8. A. & C. Black. 1981. p. 373. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  4. The Spectator, Volume 190. F.C. Westley. 1953. p. 117. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  5. Gorky, Maksim (1974). History of the Civil War in the U. S. S. R.: The Prelude of the Great Proletarion Revolution. Academic International Press. p. 176. ISBN 9780875690582. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  6. "The Amazing Serge Yourievitch". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 22 March 1925. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  7. Sinclair, Andrew (1989). War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the 'Forties. Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 9780241125311.
  8. Mackay, James Alexander. The animaliers: a collector's guide to the animal sculptors of the 19th & 20th centuries. Dutton. p. 137.
  9. Hopkinson, Tom (1982). Of this Our Time: A Journalist's Story, 1905-1950. Hutchinson. p. 253. ISBN 9780091478605.
  10. Fleming, Ann (1985). The Letters of Ann Fleming. HarperCollins Publishers Limited. p. 108. ISBN 9780002170598.
  11. International Who's Who, 1983-84. Europa Publications Limited. 1 January 1983. p. 622. ISBN 9780905118864. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  12. Suid-Afrikaanse Hofverslae, Volume 1. Juta. 1954. p. 465.
  13. Seymour-Ure, Colin. "Hulton, Sir Edward George Warris". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  14. Van Horne, Janice (2013). A Complicated Marriage: My Life with Clement Greenberg. Counterpoint. p. 155. ISBN 9781619021570.
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