Eduard von Falz-Fein
Baron Eduard Oleg Alexandrowitsch von Falz-Fein was a Liechtensteiner businessman, journalist, and sportsman.
Biography
Von Falz-Fein was born in Havrylivka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire. His father Alexander Eduardovich was an agronomist, brother of the founder of the Askania-Nova biosphere reserve in southern Ukraine, Friedrich von Falz-Fein. His mother Vera Nikolaevna was from a family of generals and admirals of the Russian fleet Yepanchins.He served as a "sports diplomat" who under his initiative, alongside Woldemar von Falz-Fein, formed the Olympic movement in Liechtenstein and was vice president of the Liechtenstein Olympic Committee in the mid-1930s.
In 1951 and from 1953 until 1973, he was President of the Liechtenstein Cycling Association. Falz-Fein funded much of the research on the identification of the Romanov family remains. He turned 100 on 14 September 2012. He was a cousin of an Olympic bobsledder Eduard Theodor von Falz-Fein. Falz-Fein died in a house fire in Vaduz on 17 November 2018 at the age of 106. At the time of his death, Eduard was the oldest living resident of Liechtenstein.
Falz-Fein is credited in Russia with helping bring the 1980 Summer Olympics to Moscow. Ideologically unfriendly to communism, he still considered Russia his homeland and lobbied IOC members to vote for Moscow. He was friends with Soviet sports officials.
Honours
;Liechtenstein- "Golden Laurel"
- Baron of Liechtenstein - Liechtenstein nobility.
- Emeritus of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries "For contribution to friendship"
- Order of Friendship of Peoples – for the active long-term advocacy of Russian culture abroad
- Order of Honour – for outstanding contribution to the preservation and promotion of Russian culture abroad, strengthening friendship and cooperation between the peoples of the Russian Federation and the Principality of Liechtenstein
- Pushkin Medal – for outstanding contribution to the preservation of the cultural heritage of Russia
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"
- By the President of the Russian Federation – for outstanding contribution to the preservation and repatriation of Russian art and objects of historical heritage
- Order of St. Sergius, 2nd class – for outstanding contribution to the development of Russian culture and in connection with the anniversary
- Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize
- Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise
- Order of Merit
- Honorary Insignia of the President of Ukraine – for long-term selfless activity to return to the Ukraine national cultural values, personal contribution to the renewal of the reserve Askania-Nova
- Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine with a memorable mark – a personal contribution and active assistance in the restoration of historical and cultural heritage of the Biosphere Reserve Askania-Nova
- International Prize "Crystal Globe"
- Awarded to Nicholas Roerich