Background
Vorres, Ian Andrew was born on September 19, 1924 in Athens, Greece. Son of Andrew and Stephanie (Chroussakis) Vorres.
( When she died in exile in 1960, Olga Alexandrovna was ...)
When she died in exile in 1960, Olga Alexandrovna was the last Grand Duchess of Russia, the favorite sister of Czar Nicholas II who was executed with his wife and five children during the Revolution. Born in splendor difficult to imagine today, she endured a lifetime of relentless tragedy with courage and exceptional powers of adjustment. The Last Grand Duchess is a valuable account of the final decades of the house of Romanov as seen through the eyes of its last surviving member. Through Olga, we meet Queen Victoria, George V of England, Rasputin, Mrs. Anderson - on whose story the movie Anastasia was made - and other impostors who plagued the exiled duchess with false hope. In this official memoir, Ian Vorres captures the loneliness and violence of Olga's years in Russia, her loveless first marriage to Prince Peter of Oldenburg, her years of exile in England and Denmark, and her final settlement with her second husband and family in Canada. Long out of print, and now reissued in a handsomely illustrated edition, The Last Grand Duchess is the thorough and engaging official biography of an extraordinary woman.
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Vorres, Ian Andrew was born on September 19, 1924 in Athens, Greece. Son of Andrew and Stephanie (Chroussakis) Vorres.
Bachelor, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1950. Master of Arts, University Toronto, Ontario, 1952.
Partner, John Vorres & Company, Athens, 1964-1974; president, Vorres Museum, Paiania, since 1983; mayor, Municipality of Paiania, Greece, since 1991; president, Vorres Museum, Paiania. Art critic Hamilton Spectator, 1956-1960. Correspondent Southam Press, Greece, 1962-1975.
( When she died in exile in 1960, Olga Alexandrovna was ...)
Board of directors Athens Young Men's Christian Association. Member Greek South Africa Association (honorary president), Hellenic Canada Association of Greece (honorary president), Foreign Press Association Greece, Society Preservation of Greek Heritage (Washington, trustee since 1993).