Alexis Guedroitz


Alexis Nicolaevich Guedroitz was a Belgian professor of Russian Language and Literature and an interpreter who participated in several meetings between Soviet and Belgian politicians, such as Spaak-Khrushchev, Spaak-Kosygin, Harmel-Gromyko, and the official visit of the King and Queen of the Belgians in USSR.
He was also one of the founders and delegates in Belgium of the International Dostoevsky Society.

Biography

Childhood

Born in exile in Pancevo, Serbia, in 1923, Alexis Guedroitz was the son of the Russian Prince Nicholas Wladimirovich Guedroitz and his wife Alexandra Gregorievna Strigewsky. Shortly after his birth, his father, a young officer of the Imperial Guard, died from wounds of war. The young Alexis, his sister Olga, and their half-brother Andrey were raised by their mother, who remarried in Brussels to George Iovleff.

Private life

Alexis Guedroitz married twice. First, in Dublin in 1948, he married Oonagh Ryan, with whom he had a daughter, actress Ania Guedroitz; then, in Brussels in 1962, he married Countess Jeanne Marie de Hemricourt de Grunne, with whom he had two sons, Nicolas and Michel Guedroitz.

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