1. Prince Dimitri Dimitrievich Obolensky was born in the Russian Soviet Republic on 1 April 1918 in Saint Petersburg, the son of Prince Dimitri Alexandrovich Obolensky and Countess Maria.
11 Facts About Dimitri Obolensky
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Dimitri Obolensky was educated in Britain at Lynchmere Preparatory School, Eastbourne, and in France at the Lycee Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he distinguished himself with a Blue for lawn tennis and graduated in 1940.
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Dimitri Obolensky was elected a Fellow of Trinity College and Lecturer in Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge.
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From 1949 to 1961, Dimitri Obolensky was Reader in Russian and Balkan Medieval History at the University of Oxford and subsequently Professor of Russian and Balkan History.
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Dimitri Obolensky was a Student of Christ Church, Oxford.
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Dimitri Obolensky later became Vice-President of the Keston Institute, Oxford.
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Dimitri Obolensky's most enduring achievement was The Byzantine Commonwealth, a large-scale synthesis on the cultural influence of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Dimitri Obolensky was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, as well as Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and appointed a Knight Bachelor.
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Dimitri Obolensky was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1990.
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Dimitri Obolensky married Elisabeth Lopukhin in 1947; they had no children, and the marriage was dissolved in 1989.
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Sir Dimitri Obolensky died on 23 December 2001 at Burford in Oxfordshire.