Esper Beloselsky
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| Birth name | Эспер Константинович Белосельский-Белозерский | |||||||||||||
| Full name | Esper Konstantinovich Beloselsky-Belozersky | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | Russian | |||||||||||||
| Born |
October 8, 1870 St. Petersburg, Russia | |||||||||||||
| Died |
January 5, 1921 (aged 50) Paris, France | |||||||||||||
| Sailing career | ||||||||||||||
| Class(es) | 10 Metre | |||||||||||||
| Club | St. Petersburg River Yacht Club, St. Petersburg (RUS) | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Updated on 17 October 2016. | ||||||||||||||
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Esper Konstantinovich Beloselsky-Belozersky (8 October 1870 – 5 January 1921) was a Prince and sailor from the Russia, who represented his native country at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Nynäshamn, Sweden. Beloselsky took the bronze in the 10 Metre.
His brother Sergei was member of the International Olympic Committee.
Prince Esper Konstantinovich, was an officer of the Baltic Fleet in the elite "Guarde-Marine" corps and had served as an officer on the imperial yachts "Alexandria (yacht)" and the "Polar Star (yacht)" (both yachts had served the Emperor and his family until the "Standart" was built, after which the more modern of the older two, the Polar Star served exclusively the Dowager Empress, Maria Feodorovna mother of Nikolai II). During the violent first mutinies by the Baltic Fleet's sailors, based in Kronstadt island naval base outside of Petrograd, Esper Konstantinovich barely avoided capture -and likely murder- by the sailors. Together with his two young sons Georges Esperovich, Paul Esperovich, their mother Madeleine Jakovlena, née Moulin (and nannies, household servants) he fled to Finland at first, during the summer of 1917. Together with the rest of the extended family at that time in Finland, they awaited the developments until it was clear that there was little hope to return to Russia. They made their way to Paris and France in late 1919. Meanwhile, Esper Konstantinovich' oldest son Konstantin Esperovich, a freshly promoted ensign of the Horse Guards in October 1917, an 18-year-old officer, was with his Horse Guards detachment in Kiev where he was murdered on January 28, 1918 by a red guardist sailor who shot him in the back of the head in the streets of Kiev(he is buried in Kiev in the "Pokrovsky" monastery) in connection with the first revolutionary and nationalistic waves of fighting in Kiev, where Russian imperial officers were targeted by all.
See also
Sources
- "Esper Beloselsky Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympic Sports. Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- The Swedish Olympic Committee (1913). Erik Bergvall, ed. The Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912 – Official Report (PDF). Wahlström & Widstrand. Retrieved 7 February 2015.