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Up for sale "Hilton Hotels" Prince Serge Obolensky Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
was a Russian-American aristocrat, U.S. Army paratrooper, socialite and publicist. He served
as vice chairman of
the board of directors of
the Hilton Hotels Corporation.
Obolensky's parents were Prince Platon (1850–1913) and Maria
Konstantinovna Naryshkina (1861–1929). He had a younger brother, Vladimir
(1896–1968), who died unmarried and childless. He was an enthusiastic polo
player and played for his University was a soldier in two World Wars and in the Russian Civil War and fled his native country after
battling Bolsheviks as a guerrilla fighter. He was a lieutenant colonel in
the U.S. paratroopers and a member of
the Office of Strategic
Services (OSS), forerunner of the CIA,
and made his first five jumps in 1943 at the age of 53.
After
his second marriage, he settled in the U.S., working with his new
brother-in-law, the real estate entrepreneur Vincent Astor.[6] He also started a business, Parfums
Chevalier Garde, with fellow emigre, Aleksandre was president until 1940 when they were cut off from their French
suppliers during World War II. When
Obolensky was president of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel,
Tarsaidze became his assistant. Tarsaidze later wrote a novel about the parents
of Obolensky's first wife, Alexander II and Catherine Dolgorukov.
n 1949, he started his
own public relations firm in New York City, Serge Obolensky Associates, Inc., handling
accounts like Piper-Heidsieck champagne. "Serge", a friend once remarked,
"could be successful selling umbrellas in the middle of the Sahara". In
1958, Obolensky was made vice chairman of the board of Hilton Hotels Corporation. In
the same year, he released his autobiography, One Man In His Time. The
Memoirs of Serge Obolensky. He maintained a substantial art collection.