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词条 Dimitri Jorjadze
释义

  1. Biography

  2. Boone Hall

  3. Private life

  4. References

  5. See also

  6. External links

{{No footnotes|date=April 2010}}{{Infobox nobility
| name = Prince Dimitri Jorjadze
| image = Dimitri Jorjadze.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1898|10|26|df=y}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1985|10|26|1898|10|26|df=y}}
| noble family = Jorjadze
| occupation = Ambassador Hotel executive, race car driver
| spouse = Audrey Emery
(m. 1937; div. 19??)
{{marriage|Sylvia Ashley
|1954|1977|end=her death}}
}}

Prince Dimitri Jorjadze ({{lang-ka|დიმიტრი ჯორჯაძე}}) (26 October 1898 – 26 October 1985) was a Georgian nobleman, Ambassador Hotel executive and race car driver.

Biography

He was a member of the Georgian nobility of Tbilisi from the Jorjadze family, who became exiled after the overthrow of Tsarist Russia and the subsequent Bolshevik takeover.

The 6'3" Prince was probably best known in racing circles. In early July 1931, he won the Touring Car Grand Prix, 24 Hours of Spa, in Belgium. He covered the greatest distance, 1,580.7 miles at a speed of 65.8 miles per hour, in a Mercedes-Benz SSK with Goffredo Zehender{{citation needed|date=August 2014}}.

Boone Hall

In June 1940, he bought the historic South Carolina plantation known as Boone Hall, eight miles from Charleston in the US, from Thomas A. Stone of Canada{{citation needed|date=August 2014}}. He raced Thoroughbreds under the nom de course, Boone Hall Stable. Most notable of his horses was Princequillo, who in 1943 was the fastest distance runner in the United States and who became a two-time Leading sire in North America and a seven-time Leading broodmare sire in North America.[1]

Jorjadze was associated with Prince Serge Obolensky in the hotel business in New York City.

Private life

He was married twice. His first wife was Audrey Emery, the American-born former wife of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia; he married her in March 1937 in Maidstone, England). The marriage ended in divorce. He married, secondly, in 1954, to Sylvia Ashley, a onetime English showgirl who was the former wife of Major Lord Anthony Ashley-Cooper and Clark Gable, and the widow of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/princequillo-ire.html|title=Princequillo (IRE)|publisher=American Classic Pedigrees|date=|accessdate= November 16, 2016}}

See also

  • Jorjadze, Georgian surname
  • Gael Elton Mayo, The Man in a Panther Skin: the Life of Prince Dimitri Djordjadze (1985);(Estate of Gael Elton Mayo c/o BookBlast, London [https://web.archive.org/web/20110216115203/http://www.bookblast.com/literary_estates.html].

External links

  • Motor Races 1931 - Belgian 24-Hours-Race
  • Republic of Georgia
  • Princes of the Russian Empire
  • [https://uk.pinterest.com/madamepiggymick/europe-royalty-russia/ Europe Royalty : Russia]
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