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Nikolai Tsiskaridze in the Bolshoi’s “The Nutcracker”. 1995. Photo by Mikhail Logvinov.
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Nikolai Tsiskaridze in the Bolshoi’s “The Nutcracker”. 1995. Photo by Mikhail Logvinov.
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ReDaily Ancestor: Captain George Eugene Prujan
Part 2 of my research into "The Captain" to aid in the rerelease of the book Escape From Destiny by Philip J. Sipkov.
What I Found: Today is an online search day, done from home during this snowstorm. An initial Google search for "George Eugene Prujan" 1897-1986 only brought up links to this blog. I then adapted the search to "George Prujan" 1897-1986 and had some more options:
Here is a link to his record on the Social Security Death Index on DeathData.org
This memorial on Sysoon also uses information from the Social Security Death Index.
Here's the Ancestry.com page on the Prujan surname. There is no record on surnamedb.com
There is no information about the Prujan family on Wikitree. I may have to add some info in order to aid my search.
Success! I have found his obituary in the Historical Archives of the Washington Post. There was also an article about him called "Russian Horse, Russian Rider" by Michael Kernan ran on 5 Sept 1976 in the Metro section. I had to purchase both of these articles and only have access to them for 90 days.
I can't reproduce the Obituary due to permissions, but it identifies his date of death as 27 Apr 1986, with him dying of heart ailments caused by a stroke. It confirms some of the other data I had. It gives me a solid timeline in the U.S., arriving in 1923, settling in Quincy, Illinois, then in Cleveland, and moving to DC in 1960. It identifies his survivors as wife Tatiana, stepdaughters Nina Balint of Carmel Village, CA, and Helen Logvinov of Hendersonville, TN.; six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
The Post does not have an obituary for Tatiana. Here's an article about a Russian Easter Feast featuring her.
This page identifies Tatiana's date of death as 29 June 1996. It is confirmed on this page on Ancient Faces, which identifies her last residence as Bonners Ferry, Idaho, thanks to the Social Security Death Index.
This blog post references her as working at a Russian Orthodox Church in DC.
Tatiana's death information from the Social Security Death Index is repeated on DeathData.org.
Tatiana's daughter Nina (Balint in George's obituary) died on 29 May 2006 in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Here is a memorial to her on virtual-memorials.com.
Tatiana's other daughter Helen was involved in a car accident in 1960 in Florida.
From what I can find online, Helen, and her husband, Vadim, are both still living in Nashville, TN.
This has been a good breakthrough day. Unfortunately the obituary had no information about his earlier marriages or any children from those marriages. A next step is to stop by Montgomery County records to find his Last Will and Testament. If you have any information about his family or are a member of his family, please contact [email protected], the new e-mail address for aois21 publishing, LLC.
Yosemite black bear by Misha Logvinov on Flickr.
Peruvian wild life by Misha Logvinov on Flickr.
Yosemite bear by Misha Logvinov on Flickr.