Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg
Tatiana Hilarionowna Princess of Metternich - Winneburg Gen. Princess of Metternich - Winneburg (born Princess Tatiana Ilarionowna Wassiltschikoff, Russian Татьяна Васильчикова; born December 19 1914jul / January 1 1915greg in Petrograd. . † 26 July 2006, Schloss Johannisberg in Geisenheim ) was a German painter, writer and patron of Russian origin.
Family
Tatiana von Metternich - Winneburg was the daughter of Prince Hilarion Vasilchikov Sergeyevich (1881-1969) and Princess Lidia Leonidovna Wjasemskaja ( 1886-1946 ). She was the widow of Paul Alfons Prince of Metternich - Winneburg and was the last representative of the house Metternich - Winneburg.
Life
After the Russian Revolution her family fled to her about Malta and France to Germany. Tatiana Vasilchikov later studied painting in Munich. In the 1930s, she landed a position at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. During this time she became friends with a circle of regime opponents and learned about her future husband Paul Alfons know. They married on September 6, 1941 in the Berlin Grunewald. Her sister, Marie ( called Missie ) Vasilchikov ( 1917-1978 ), describes the Berlin years in their Berlin diaries.
Tatiana and Paul Alfons von Metternich initially lived at Castle Königswart in Cheb and after the expulsion from Czechoslovakia in 1945 on the war-torn Schloss Johannisberg in Hesse together with the mother of her husband, Isabel Princess of Metternich - Winneburg ( 1880-1980 ), the former Princess von Metternich - Winneburg. The marriage remained childless, with her going back to Prince Metternich Metternich - Winneburg line has gone out.
Together with her husband Paul, she built after the war, the Johannisberg castle again and managed the estate. Together with the Wiesbaden Henkell & Söhnlein was sold under other brand " Fürst von Metternich ". Since 1974, the castle and the vineyards belonging to the Oetker Group.
Tatiana von Metternich - Winneburg was co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Rheingau Musik Festival and was involved in numerous charitable activities, particularly in Lazarus Medal, the second Großbailli in Germany it from 1992 to 2006.
She died on 26 July 2006 at the age of 91 years at Schloss Johannisberg in Rheingau Geisenheim in Hesse.