Nicolas de Staël – January 5th, 1914

Nicolas de Staël was born on January 5, 1914 in the family of a Russian Lieutenant General, Baron Vladimir Stael von Holstein, (a member of the Staël von Holstein family, and the last Commandant of the Peter and Paul Fortress) and his wife, Olga Sakhanskaya. De Staël’s family was forced to emigrate to Poland in [...]