Serge de Bolotoff married Rosalie Selfridge, daughter of Harry Gordon Selfridge on 7th August 1918; they had one daughter, Tatiana, in 1919..
By Sharon O’Connor
The Dulwich Society local history group receives many enquiries for information, often prompted by articles reprinted from the Journal on its website.
The following enquiry produced surprising results.
My mother was born in 1918 and grew up in Dulwich (I may have the address somewhere). She used to tell the story of having gone to a party as a young girl where there was another girl in a very fine dress who she was told was a Russian princess.
Her father was a Russian prince.
Serge's fortunes should have improved with his marriage in August 1918 to Rosalie Selfridge, daughter of the American-born department-store.
She had no more detail than that and is no longer with us. Can you throw any light on who this might have been?
He was (allegedly) a Russian prince and has been represented on TV recently, in Mr Selfridge. He claimed to be the fifth man ever to fly a powered aircraft.
He lived in Dulwich but spent a fair amount of his time in courts of law. He was Prince Serge Vincent Constantinovitch de Bolotoff, born in 1889 in St Petersburg, the son of Princess Marie Wiasemsky and Constantine de Boloto