Sophia Dolgorukova – a princess, pilot and taxi driver Public domain She was a Russian Princess, Catherine the Great’s descendant – and also a driver, a pilot, a nurse and a real hero.
In the late 1920s in Paris, a lot of talented Russian emigrants, including, of course, many noblemen, had to make ends meet somehow. And one could accidentally get a taxi ride with writer Gaito Gazdanov as the driver, or even a real Russian Princess – Sophia Dolgorukova, whose ancestry went back to Catherine the Great and even farther to Rurik.
Coming from two bastard lines
Alexander Bobrinbskiy and Nadezhda Bobrinskaya, Sophia s parents
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