Eduard von Falz-Fein
Eduard Alexandrovich of folding Fine ( born September 14, 1912 in Gawrilowka, Ukraine, Russian Empire ) is a Russian -born nobleman, entrepreneur, journalist, athlete and sports official. He is a citizen of the Principality of Liechtenstein.
Life
Eduard von folding fine is the son of Alexander and nephew of Friedrich von fold fine. It belongs to the family of the generals Yepanchin. The double-barreled folding fine bears the family since 1864. Fine was the great- grandmother Elisabeth Anna fine maiden name, took place in 1872, bringing in the hereditary status of a " hereditary honorable citizen " ( Potomstwenny Potschotny Graschdanin ) and 1915 as a result of the Tsar 's visit in the previous year 1914 - the survey in the Russian hereditary barony. The family is related by marriage by marriage with the family of the writer Vladimir Nabokov.
Before the October Revolution: Askania -Nova
With the permission of Tsar Nicholas I, his great - great-grandfather Friedrich Fine (1794-1864) had bought a purchase agreement dated August 16, 1856 from Dessau Duke Leopold IV, the 52,000 -acre colony Anhalt Askania -Nova in Kherson, 100 kilometers north of the peninsula Crimea located, with 49,000 sheep, 640 horses and 549 cattle. The name goes back to the Ascanians in Germany.
His uncle Frederick folding Fine developed that gradually the eponymous nature reserve with botanical gardens and exotic animal park - but also half a million sheep - eventually one of the largest in the world and 1921 state property of Ukraine was, today is a UNESCO nature reserve and still many home to exotic animals such as antelopes, bison, zebras, ostriches and Przewalski horses ( cf. Askania -Nova ( nature reserve) ). By 1896, Friedrich - fold fine had bought for Askania Nowa a herd of wild eland, their offspring is still supervised by mounted herdsmen. In 1914, Tsar Nicholas II visited the Natural Park " Askania -Nova " and the family fold fine. The Tsar is to have the 2 -year-old Eduard rocked on his knees and joking here: "Grow my son and become a man!"
After the October Revolution
Sporty commitment
Special, who did much to the Olympic movement in Liechtenstein. His professional and family ties to the International Olympic Committee ( IOC) taking advantage, he was the driving force that Liechtenstein to the IOC for the first time was able to attend the 1936 Olympic Games without membership. Previously, an Olympic Committee in Liechtenstein was founded in 1935, served as vice president of the Baron of folding fine. As an athlete, he went to the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch -Partenkirchen in the two- to 18th place, then he has participated in a total of 16 Olympic Games in various functions.
His second preference is for sports cycling. As Paris cycling champion and known to many European sports stars, Eduard prescribed by folding porcelain since 1951 the Liechtenstein Football. He was in the years 1951 and 1953-1973 President of the Liechtenstein Cyclist Federation and supported at this time many cycling talent.
In 2003 he was presented with the Golden Xaver Frick bay leaf from the Princely Government.
Commitment for the Russian art and history
Folding fine bought at auctions art to then handed over to the Russian state. In Switzerland he was on the Gotthard pass up an equestrian statue of the Russian Generalissimo Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov, who moved in the fight against the French in 1799 at this point with his troops across the Alps.
As head of the family fold fine lives in the villa " Askania -Nova " in the Principality of Liechtenstein, the family archives, he handed in the 2000s, the Ethnographic Museum in Saint Petersburg. He was awarded the Russian Order of Honor in 2002. In 2007 he was awarded " for his significant contribution to the preservation of Russia's cultural heritage" the Pushkin Medal.