Irina Belotelkin

Irina Roudakoff Belotelkin (January 1, 1913 – January 21, 2009) was an American artist and fashion designer.
Early years
Irina Belotelkin, nee Roudakoff, was born in Elisavetgrad, Ukraine (alternatively: Yelisavetgrad, now Kirovohrad or Kirovograd) to the Russian noblesse ancienne as recorded in the imperial registers of Tver. A morganatic descendant of Catherine the Great, she was a student at the Mariinsky Noble Ladies' Institute , Novocherkassk, Russia (former capital of the Don Cossacks). She was orphaned at the time of the Russian Civil War after her father, General Paul Roudakoff, was fatally wounded in battle; 5 days later her mother died of typhus.
Her surviving brother, Paul Roudakoff, was at school in the elite Corps des Pages, and was evacuated to the banks of the Nile in Egypt with the entire Corps by their patron, King George V of England who took responsibility for the school after the assassination of his cousins. (King...