Princess Marina PETROVNA of Russia was a Princess of Russia and a member of the House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov. She was born in Nice on March 11 1892. She was a daughter of Grand Duke Peter NIKOLAEVICH of Russia and his wife, Grand Duchess Militza NICHOLAEVNA, born Princess of Montenegro. A great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. She grew up in the last period of Imperial Russia, mostly in Znamenka, her father's summer palace near Peterhof. Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna suggested Princess Marina as a likely bride to the Duke of MONTPENSIER, son of the Count of Paris. But with the World War I, the project was abandoned. Marina served as a nurse with Caucasian troops near Trabzon. She escaped the Russian Revolution with the rest of her family aboard the British ship HMS Marlborough in 1919. On February 4, 1927 in Antibes, Marina finaly married Prince Alexander GALITZINE (1885-1973), son of Prince Nikolai Dimitrievich GALITZINE (last President of the Council of Ministers of Imperial Russia) and Evguenia Andreyevna GRUNBERG. The princess in exile engaged in painting and literary activities. From her childhood, Princess Marina had shown signs of artistic talent. Showing interest for sciences, architecture and a certain talent for drawing and painting. She studied painting first with a teacher from the senior school in Yalta and then in St Petersburg under professor KORDOVSKY. She has worked on an anthology of ballads and ancient songs of the Provencal Christmas entitled "The Holy Night" «La Sainte nuit». She had illustrated and decorated the book herself. In 1926, she published in Paris a book entitled "The Legends of the Crimean Tatars" that she illustrated with four of these drawings. Princess Galitzine died on May 15, 1981 at Six-Fours-les-Plages in the Var and was buried in the private orthodox cemetery of Caucade in Nice.