Alexis Obolensky in the UK National Portrait Gallery
Prince Alexis Obolensky, Jr. (May 8, 1914 – February 8, 1986),[1][2] of New York, New York, was a member of the Virginia Glee Club during the Glee Club 1934-1935 season. A first year "special student" during the season, he was also a member of Zeta Psi.[3]
Obolensky was a member of a Russian emigré family, the Rurik dynasty, who emigrated to the United States in the 1920s. He was married to Princess Luba Trubetskoy, also a member of pre-revolution Russian nobility. He was a socialite who traveled widely, promoting backgammon as a gambling and tournament game and serving as the president of the World Backgammon Club.[4]
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- ↑ "Alexis Obolensky". US Social Security Death Index, 1935-present (Ancestry.com). http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn=alexis&gsln=obolensky&msbdy=1916&msypn__ftp=New+York+City+(All+Boroughs)%2c+New+York%2c+USA&msypn=1652382&msypn_PInfo=6-%7c0%7c1652393%7c0%7c2%7c3244%7c35%7c1652382%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c&cpxt=0&uidh=qoc&cp=0&pcat=34&h=45962642&recoff=13+14&db=ssdi&indiv=1&ml_rpos=1. Retrieved 2015-01-14.
- ↑ "Alexis Obolensky". New York Times. 1986-02-11. http://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/11/obituaries/alexis-obolensky.html. Retrieved 2015-01-14.
- ↑ Corks and Curls. 1935. p. 139.
- ↑ "World Championships of Backgammon", Dale Kerr,
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