Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameConstantin Donici
Birth?
Death?
Note 1“Constantin’s grandfather had been a celebrated Moldavian writer and translator of Pushkin, but he himself was a practical, easy-going man who didn’t have much thirst for literature...”
Note 2“... He was attractive to women and had taken part in two or three duels in his youth–always as the challenged party. But he had now settled down to life as a country gentleman, and his greatest pleasure was hunting.”
Marriage21 Oct 1923, Baleni, Moldavia, Romania
SpousePrincess Elena ‘Pomme’ (Leon) Cantacuzene, 10C3R
BirthSep 1900, Bucharest, Romania
Death?
Note 1Princess Ileana Sturdza writes: "Of course I knew Helene Cantacuzino, married to Constantin Donici. She was a very agreeable person, very cultivated and full of fantasy. She died at 80 in Puciora, a small town not far from Targoviste...
Note 2“... She had become a very popular and able teacher of English and French to children and students whom she pulled through their classes up to university. The local authorities had a great respect for her and she was always provided with excellent food...
Note 3“... I used to come for the weekend in Puciora where she had passed through great difficulties until she started using her knowledge of foreign languages."
Note 4“Pomme too was a countrywoman, and a bee-keeper. She and Constantin had a daughter just into her teens called Ina, whom Paddy thought resembled Millais’ Ophelia.” Her portrait (in at least two versions) is in the V&A Lafayette Collection, London.
Note 5Also known as Hélène. Did she have a brother Prince Gregoire Lwovitch Cantacuzene, Councellor at the Romanian Embassy, London?
Flags***, Callimachi, Cantacuzene, Caradja, Ghika, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo
FatherPrince Leon (George) Cantacuzene (1869-1923)
MotherAna Vacarescu (?-?)
Children
SpouseMichel Catargi (?-?)