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Nicolas Olimpieff

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  • Name Nicolas Olimpieff
    Birth 21 May 1897  Serafimovich, Volgograd, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male
    Person ID I1784  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2026

    Father Viktor Mikhaylovich Olimpiev,   b. 10 Nov 1867, Martynovskii, Volgograd, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Mother Aleksandra Eugrafovna Shiryaeva,   b. 23 Apr 1873, Don Host Oblast, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F1135  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Catherine Werblowsky or Verblovski,   b. 8 Oct 1893, Saint Petersburg, Russia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jan 1972, Nice, Alpes Maritimes, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    Marriage 9 Oct 1923  Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. André Olimpieff,   b. 26 Dec 1926, Nice, Alpes Maritime, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jul 1929, Nice, Alpes Maritime, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 2 years)
    Family ID F1134  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2026

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Hotel worker in same hotel as Nicolas Filonov and Catherine Olimpieff.

      2. Also known as Nikilai Viktorovich Olimpiev.

      3. Website found by Konnor Petersen <http://duhovenstvovd.ru/olimpievi1.html> with the Olimpieff ancestry.
      "The clergy of the region of the Don army:
      Olympiev
      Generation 1
      1. Olimpiev Nikolay Nikolaevich (1833)
      Wife: Matrona Ivanovna (1836 - 01 (20) .09 (08) .1878)
      Sexton Nikolai Nikolaevich Olimpiev was born in 1833, the son of a sexton of spiritual origin.
      After his exclusion from the lower branch of the Voronezh Seminary on December 15, 1852, he was assigned to the Gulyaevka settlement to the Mother of God Church as a deacon.
      On June 6, 1854, he was initiated into the surplice.
      On July 23, 1855, he was transferred to the Church of the Ascension in the village of Uryupinskaya as a sexton. Upon request, in 1859 he was moved to the Crimean farm of the Kochetov stanitsa to a Ponomar place.
      On May 23, 1861, it was moved to the Intercession Church in the village of Elizavetovskaya.
      Generation 2
      1.1. Olimpiev Mikhail Nikolaevich (X - until 1906)
      Wife: Olimpieva Anastasia Vasilievna (1836)
      Generation 3
      1.1.1. Olimpiev Viktor Mikhailovich (20 (10) .11.1867)
      Wife: Olimpieva (Shiryaeva) Alexandra Evgrafovna (05 (23) .05 (04) .1873)
      Priest Viktor Mikhailovich Olimpiev was born on November 10, 1867 in the Martynovsky farm, the son of a deacon of spiritual origin.
      At the end of the course at the Don Theological Seminary in the second category, he was appointed a psalmist to the Assumption Church of the Kalitvenskaya stanitsa in 1889.
      Upon request, he was transferred to the same position at the Nativity of Christ Church of the Kamenskaya stanitsa on February 23, 1890.
      Upon request, he was ordained a priest to the Trinity Church of the Verkhne-Buzinovsky farm in the Sirotinskaya stanitsa on October 3, 1890.
      Upon request, he was transferred to the Mother of God Church in the Gulyaevka settlement on September 30, 1891.
      On request, he was approved as an observer of parish schools and letters of letters of the Ust-Medveditsky district on October 8, 1900.
      By the decree of the Don Spiritual Consistory, he was appointed supernumerary priest of the Resurrection Church of the village of Ust-Medveditskaya without the right to use the proceeds on June 1, 1904.
      Since February 7, 1911 he has served in the Nativity of Christ Church of the Berezovskaya stanitsa.
      He held the positions of:
      - the head and teacher of the law of the Gulyaevsk parish school from 1897 to 1900.
      - served as Chairman of the Ust-Medveditsk district branch of the Donskoy diocese school council from September 1, 1908 to March 4, 1909;
      - Member of the Ust-Medveditsky District School Council of the Ministry of Public Education since August 23, 1902;
      - director of the Ust-Medveditsky prison department on October 25, 1906;
      - member of the commission for the opening of the diocesan female school in the village of Ust-Medveditskaya on October 12, 1907;
      - a member of a special meeting on the application of the law on conditional early release of prisoners on October 27, 1909;
      - Observer of church schools in the Ust-Medveditsky district on October 8, 1900.
      Awarded: - a thigh-gaiter in 1896;
      - a velvet purple skufia in 1898;
      - a velvet purple kamilavka on May 6, 1905;
      -gold pectoral cross on May 6, 1909.
      The wife is the daughter of the tradesman Shiryaev Alexandra Evgrafovna.
      1.1.2. Olimpieva ( Dioniseva ) Alexander M. (1867)
      Husband: Dionysus Peter D. (26 (14) .07.1861)
      1.1.3. Olimpiyeva (Yakovleva) Olga Mikhailovna (1872)
      Husband: Yakovlev Ivan Romanovich (13 (01) .02.1873)
      1.1.4. Olimpiev Vladimir Mikhailovich (23 (11) .07.1875)
      Generation 4
      1.1.1.1. Olimpiev Vladimir Viktorovich (15 (03) .11.1892)
      1.1.1.2. Olimpiev Nikolay Viktorovich (27 (15) .05.1898)
      1.1.1.3. Olimpiev Alexander Viktorovich (14 (01) .05.1901)
      1.1.1.4. Olimpieva Evgeniya Viktorovna (23 (10) .05.1903)
      1.1.1.5. Olimpiev Georgy Viktorovich (31 (18) .01.1906)

      BIRTH:
      1. Transcription of birth record made by Irene Petersen from government records in Nice France: "André Olimpieff. The 26 December 1926 at 21 hours [7 p.m.] was born 4 Place Duffy, André, of masculine sex, of Nicolas Olimpieff, hotel employee, born at Oust. Medveditzkaia (Russia) the 21 of May 1897 and of Catherine Werblovsky, his wife, hotel employee, born in Petrograd, Russia, the 8 October 1893 residing 33 Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France. Document of 29 December 1926 at 9 o'clock upon declaration of Victorine Sanrat, 34 years old, midwife residing in Nice."

      2. Complete spelling of birthplace: Province of Don, Stanitza, Oustniedveditzkaya (Russia).

      3. Per Konnor Petersen research: The village of Ust-Medveditskaya, Region of the Donskoy army was renamed Serafimovich in 1933.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Olimpieff: Stamped copy dated 14 May 1976 of the official marriage extract from the Ville de Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, France, on the southwest outskirts of Paris, translated by Kerry Petersen:
      No. 98, Olimpieff/Werblov[s]ky. "9 Oct 1923, 11 a.m., before us, Nicolas Olimpieff, without profession, living at 86 Rue de Mayence, at Wiesbaden, 26 years old, born at Oust. Medvéditzkaia (Arormie?[Province] du Don, Russia) 8 (21 May) 1897, son of Victor Olimpieff and Alexandra Chiraieff, his wife, without profession, living at Oust. Medvéditzkaia, and Catherine Werblovsky, without profession, living at Avenue Magenta in this town, and before at Wiesbaden, 73 Boulevard de l'Empereur Frederic, 30 years old, born at Petrograd, Russia, 25 Sep (8 Oct) 1893, daughter of Adolphe Werblovsky, banker, and Elisabeth Herzenberg, his wife, without profession, living at 73 Boulevard du l'Empereur Frederic at Wiesbaden; divorced from Victory Boutzkoy 7 Sep 1922... [standard marriage language]." Both sign: Catherine Werblovsky and Nicolas Olimpieff.

      2. A marriage announcement for "Nicolas Olimpieff and Mademoiselle Catherine Werblovsky" appeared 4 Oct 1923 in the "Le Semeur to Versailles" newspaper of Versailles, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France.

      3. Olimpieff: According to Irene Petersen, Catherine never divorced Nicolas. Later Nicolas disappears and they lose track of him. Supposedly he made off with some money from his employer and was hiding.

      BURIAL:
      1. Per cemetery burial record found on FILAE. Nicolas Olimpieff, 50, buried 5 Dec 1947 at Cimetière Parisien de Thiais, Thiais, Val-de-Marne, Île-de-France, France. Burial paid for by Vladimir Olimpieff, age 53, most likely his brother. Image posted on FamilySearch.