Background
Vasil'chikov, Georgii Illarionovich, Prince was born on November 22, 1919 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France. Son of Prince Illarion Sergeevich Vasil’chikov and Princess Lidia Viazemskaia.
Vasil'chikov, Georgii Illarionovich, Prince was born on November 22, 1919 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France. Son of Prince Illarion Sergeevich Vasil’chikov and Princess Lidia Viazemskaia.
Studied at the universities of Rome and Berlin, and the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques et Sociales, Paris. Educated in France and Lithuania. Studied at the universities of Rome and Berlin, and the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques et Sociales, Paris.
Fled from Lithuania with his parents in 1940 after its annexation by the USSR. Lived in Rome, Berlin and Paris, 1941-1946. Journalist on Le Parisien Liberё and with the Agence France Presse. In 1946-1947, interpreter at the Nuremberg war trials.
From 1947-1977, interpreter, and later senior research assistant at the United Nations, first in New York, and later in Geneva. Has written numerous articles and books under various pen-names, as well as his own. Edited the Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945 of his sister Maria (Missie) Vassiltchikov.
Lives in London and Rolle, Switzerland.