30-692: Vyazemsky (masculine), Vyazemskaya (feminine), or Vyazemskoye (neuter) may refer to: People [ edit ] Lidiya Vyazemskaya (1886–1946), mother of Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg , German patron of the arts, and of Marie Vassiltchikov , Russian princess Nikifor Vyazemsky , Russian prince and owner of Afrosinya , a royal mistress of Alexey Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792–1878), Russian poet Places [ edit ] Vyazemsky District , several districts in Russia Vyazemsky Urban Settlement,
60-577: A Romanesque basilica in honour of John the Baptist , and the hill became known as Johannisberg ("John's mountain"). It was constructed on floor plans similar to that of its mother house, St. Alban's Abbey, Mainz . The monastery was a prime target for the Anabaptists in the German Peasants' War of 1525, and it was destroyed. In 1716, Konstantin von Buttlar, Prince-Abbot of Fulda , bought
90-468: A loam- loess topsoil lying on Taunus quartzite. The soils are quite stony and gravelly, enabling them to retain the day's temperature and to buffer temperature fluctuations. The estate offers guided tours with tastings, a wine bar, shop, and various special events. The church, Basilika , was originally built for the Benedictine monastery and dedicated to St. Johannes (St. John the Baptist ). After
120-563: A municipal formation which the town of Vyazemsky in Vyazemsky District of Khabarovsk Krai is incorporated as Vyazemskoye Urban Settlement, an administrative division and a municipal formation which the town of Vyazma in Vyazemsky District of Smolensk Oblast is incorporated as Vyazemsky (inhabited locality) ( Vyazemskaya , Vyazemskoye ), several inhabited localities in Russia Vyazemskaya railway station ,
150-582: A railway station on the Trans-Sibirian Railway in the town of Vyazemsky , Khabarovsk Krai, Russia Vyazemsky Lane , a side street in St. Petersburg, Russia See also [ edit ] Anne Wiazemsky (1947–2017), French actress and novelist Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Vyazemsky . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
180-793: A secretary at the British Embassy. She moved to England but was unable to get a work permit, so she moved to Germany , where she eventually employed as a translator by the German Foreign Office . Her sister Missie joined her shortly before they settled in Berlin . Due to the tendency of the Nazi party members to bypass the Foreign Ministry staff when formulating policy, as described in the Berlin diaries by Princess Marie,
210-555: A shell by the air raids on Mainz in 1942 . By the mid-1960s it had been largely rebuilt by Paul Alfons von Metternich-Winneburg and his wife Princess Tatiana , who had fled there on a farm cart in 1945 after the Russians had advanced on their other estates. Prince Paul died in 1992, leaving no heir, but a significant portion of his fortune to his mistress. With his death the House of Metternich became extinct. Although Princess Tatiana
240-814: A son of a Spanish noble woman with close links to Spain, the Spanish Embassy provided support for the wedding. The couple lived in Berlin and then in the Metternich family's Schloss Königswart in the Egerland (now in the Czech Republic). During the war, she administered the Metternich estates while her husband served in the German army. When her husband told her of his transfer to the Russian front, she went to Army HQ without his knowledge to ask for
270-668: A transfer. A few days later, she received a call informing her that her husband would be transferred as Liaison officer to the Spanish Blue Division . After the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia in 1945, they lived in Schloss Johannisberg , the family's estate in Geisenheim , in the Rheingau . It had been destroyed by bombing in 1942. They rebuilt the estate and ran the winery. The East Wing
300-675: The Bolshevik October Revolution by joining a group of people who had been evacuated by the British fleet. King George V of the United Kingdom was the cousin of the last Tsar and maternal nephew of widowed Empress Maria Feodorovna . King George V persuaded Prime Minister David Lloyd George to send a ship to Crimea to save his aunt, but the Empress refused to leave unless those who wished to flee
330-924: The Metternich family . His great-grandfather was Austrian Chancellor Prince Klemens von Metternich , who established a lasting peace at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In recognition of the Chancellor's services, the Emperor of Austria gave him a title and the estate of Johannisberg on the Rhine. In the Spanish Civil War, he volunteered on the Nationalist side to fight with his cousins and friends. They were married on 6 September 1941 by Father Shahovski, later Archbishop of John of San Francisco. As
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#1732793397699360-671: The Neue Rheingauer Kantorei performed Haydn's Die Schöpfung with soloists Elisabeth Scholl , Daniel Sans and Andreas Pruys . The Ostflügel (East Wing) was rebuilt after the destruction to serve as a tennis court. Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg , a co-founder of the Rheingau Musik Festival , turned the hall into a public concert venue, staging 10 of the 19 concerts of the first summer season in 1988, and many recitals and chamber music performances every year following. After her husband's death
390-555: The Basilika of Schloss Johannisberg. Schloss Johannisberg Schloss Johannisberg is a castle and winery in the village of Johannisberg to the west of Wiesbaden , Hesse, in the Rheingau wine-growing region of Germany. It has been making wine for over 900 years. The winery is most noted for its claim to have "discovered" late harvest wine . The palace is a venue of the Rheingau Musik Festival , made available by co-founder Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg . A mountain on
420-548: The Foreign Office effectively became a gathering place for civilian members of the anti-Nazi resistance . Her sister kept diaries of her life in the plotters' circle. Princess Marie described these years in her memoirs The Berlin Diaries 1940–1945 of Marie "Missie" Vassiltchikov (1985). Tatiana met her future husband, who was then an ordinary soldier in the German army. He was a half-Austrian and half-Spanish member of
450-567: The Schloss until her death; suffering ill health in her last years. She adopted a relative, Don Alvaro de Salinas, as her heir. She sponsored charity projects, especially in the Order of Saint Lazarus , which she joined in 1978. She succeeded her husband as the organization's "Grand Bailiff" in Germany until her death at Schloss Johannisberg on 26 July 2006. She and her husband are buried next to
480-704: The country with her were also rescued. The British sent additional ships to evacuate the entire group, including the Vassiltchikov family. They took refuge, initially in France , where she and her sister Princess Marie Vassiltchikov (1917–1978), called Missie, were educated at the Lycée of St Germain-en-Laye . She studied painting in Munich and later the family rejoined her father in Lithuania where she worked as
510-796: The destruction during World War II it was rebuilt as a Romanesque basilica and has served as the Catholic parish church for the village Johannisberg . It is also used for concerts of sacred music, of local groups and for concerts of the Rheingau Musik Festival , such as a performance of the Huelgas Ensemble . In 1999, combined choirs of Geisenheim and St. Martin, Idstein , performed Giacomo Puccini 's Messa di Gloria and, in 2001, Rutter's Requiem and Benjamin Britten 's The Company of Heaven for speakers, soloists, chorus and orchestra (1937, not performed again until 1989). In 2009,
540-476: The estate from Lothar Franz von Schönborn , started construction of the baroque palace, and, in 1720, planted Riesling vines, making it the oldest Riesling vineyard in the world. The estate changed hands several times during the Napoleonic Wars, but in 1816 Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor , gave it to the great Austrian statesman Prince von Metternich . In 1942, the Schloss was bombed and reduced to
570-464: The estate. She served as the first president of the festival's curators until her death and was kept on the list as "Gründungsvorsitzende" (founding president). Upon her husband's death in 1992 she faced that he had left a considerable portion of his fortune to a mistress, which meant she was forced to sell her remaining share of Schloss Johannisberg to the Oetker family. She was permitted to remain at
600-967: The festival and served as the president of its Kuratorium until her death. Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg was born in Saint Petersburg , the second daughter of Prince Hilarion Sergueïevitch Vassiltchikov (1881–1969), a member of the Russian Imperial Parliament Fourth Duma , and his wife, the former Princess Lidiya Leonidovna Vyazemskaya (1886–1946). On 6 September 1941 in Berlin-Grunewald , she married Paul Alfons von Metternich-Winneburg , Prince of Metternich-Winneburg , Grandee of Spain , 1941 of Portella and Count of Königswart (1917–1992), son of Clemens von Metternich, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg, and Isabel de Silva y Carvajal, countess of Castillejo. The family fled Russia in 1919, following
630-606: The festival, turning the East Wing of the building into a concert hall. After her husband's death, the hall was named "Fürst-von-Metternich-Saal". Concerts of sacred music are performed in the Basilika ; chamber music, including the annual composer's portrait, in the Fürst-von-Metternich-Saal; open-air concerts are performed in various courts; and the annual "Sommerfest" takes place on all public grounds of
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#1732793397699660-520: The first Spätlese Riesling followed by an Auslese wine in 1787 and an Eiswein in 1858. Unfortunately for the German tradition, the Tokay classification of 1730 relied in part on an area's propensity to noble rot, which suggests that the Hungarians got there first. Historically the estate used different colour seals for grapes of different ripeness. These classifications were used as the basis for
690-527: The grapes. At least two alternative stories exist to explain the delay. One is that the Prince-Bishop was away hunting and was not available to sign the permission to harvest, and the other is that he was intercepted and held by highwaymen. By this time the grapes had become affected with the " noble rot " Botrytis cinerea . The rotted grapes were then given to the local peasants, who ended up making wine of high quality. In 1775, Schloss Johannisberg made
720-654: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vyazemsky&oldid=808865819 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg Princess Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg (born Princess Tatiana Hilarionovna Vassiltchikova ( Russian : Татья́на Илларио́новна Васи́льчикова ); 1 January 1915 – 26 July 2006)
750-548: The new German wine classification of 1971, thus : Schloss Johannisberg is a single vineyard designation ( Einzellage ) in its own right, and one of a handful historic German vineyards which do not have to display a village name on the label. Thus, the vineyard designation on the label is Schloß Johannisberger . Weingut Schloss Johannisberg is a member of the Verband Deutscher Prädikatsweingüter (VDP). The 35 ha of vineyards consist of
780-635: The north bank of the Rhine near Mainz has been associated with the church and with winemaking since the Middle Ages , when the estate of Louis the Pious made 6000 litres of wine during the reign of Charlemagne . In 1100, Benedictine monks completed a monastery on the Bischofsberg ("Bishop's mountain), having identified the site as one of the best places to grow vines. Thirty years later they built
810-562: The right to live on the premises. Tatiana von Metternich published several books, some of them illustrated with her own watercolours . In 1976, she published her memoirs under the title Tatiana: Five Passports in a Shifting Europe , which she updated and republished in 1988 as Tatiana: Full Circle in a Shifting Europe . In 1987, she was a founding member of the Rheingau Musik Festival , together with Michael Herrmann , Claus Wisser , Carl Jung , Walter Fink and others. She made parts of Schloss Johannisberg available as concert venues for
840-469: Was a Russian aristocrat, philanthropist, artist, and patron of the arts. She published her books and watercolours under the name Tatiana von Metternich . She supported charity, especially the Red Cross and the Order of St. Lazarus , which she served as Grand Bailiff for Germany. She was a founding member of the Rheingau Musik Festival , made parts of Schloss Johannisberg available as concert venues for
870-495: Was allowed to reside in the Schloss until her death in 2006, the situation had forced her husband to sell the estate to the German Oetker family in 1974. There are currently about 35 hectares (86 acres) of vineyard. Tradition has it that on one occasion a messenger from Heinrich von Bibra , Prince-Bishop and Abbot of Fulda , was 14 days late in bringing the papers to give the cellar master permission to start harvesting
900-538: Was restored, but not as living quarters, rather it was turned into a hall for indoor tennis. In collaboration with Henkell & Söhnlein , a winery and member of the Oetker Group , they created the sparkling wine, "Fürst von Metternich". In 1974, they shared ownership of the castle and the winery with the Oetker Group. After her husband's death in 1992, she sold the property completely to Oetker, but retained
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