Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato

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Who was Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato?

Count Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato was a Russian industrialist, jurist, philanthropist and nobleman of the Demidov family. His parents were Aurora Karamzina and her husband Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov.

His first marriage was on 1 June 1867 to Princess Maria Elimovna Meshcherskaya. She died two days after giving birth to a son, Elim Pavlovich Demidov, 3rd Prince of San Donato, at Hietzing in the suburbs of Vienna on 6 August 1868. Her loss had a lasting effect on Pavel, who remained inconsolable for a long time, spending a long while in the room in the Villa San Donato where his wife's dresses were kept to try to recover her presence.

In Saint Petersburg on 2 June 1871 he remarried to Princess Elena Petrovna Trubetskaya, with whom he had six children:

Prince and Count Nikita Pavlovich Demidov

Princess and Countess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova, mother of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia

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Born
Oct 9, 1839
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  • Count Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato
  • Pavel Pavlovitch Demidov
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Jan 17, 1885

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on July 23, 2013

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