Alexis Guedroitz


Prince Alexis Nicolaevich Guedroitz was a Belgian professor of Russian Language and Literature and an Interpreter who participated in several meetings between Soviet and Belgian politicians ; Spaak-Kosygin ; Harmel-Gromyko ; official visit of the King and Queen of the Belgians in USSR
He was also one of the founders and delegates in Belgium of the International Dostoevsky Society.

Biography

Childhood

Born in exile in Pancevo, Serbia, in 1923, Alexis Guedroitz was the son of the Russian Prince Nicholas Wladimirovich Guedroitz and his wife Alexandra Gregorievna Strigewsky. Shortly after his birth, his father, a young officer of the Imperial Guard, died from wounds of war. The young Alexis, his sister Olga and his half-brother Andrey were brought up by their mother remarried in Brussels with Mister George Iovleff.

Private life

Alexis Guedroitz married twice. First in Dublin in 1948, he married Oonagh Ryan, with whom he had a daughter, actress Ania Guedroitz, then in Brussels in 1962, he married Jeanne Marie :nl:De Hemricourt de Grunne|de Hemricourt de Grunne with whom he had two sons, Nicolas and Michel Guedroitz.

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