Prince Sergei Platonovich OBOLENSKY NELEDINSKY-MELETZKY — known as Serge Obolensky — was a Russian-American aristocrat, U.S. Army paratrooper, socialite and publicist. Serge OBOLENSKY receives a very neat education in Russia and Oxford. He fought in the Russian army during the First World War and then in the White Army during the Russian Civil War. In 1924 he appears on a list of members of the Martinist Lodge Petrograd. He settles in the United States and obtains the nationality. During the Second World War, he joined the American paratroopers, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After the war and the return to the United States, Serge Obolensky created in 1947 a public relations company and then a publishing house, and wrote his memoirs. He is in charge of the interests of the Astor family and in 1958 was appointed Vice President of the Hilton Group. Deceased at the age of 88, he rests with his third wife at Holy Sepulcher Catholic Cemetery in Southfield, Michigan. His important Russian and American collections were scattered in 2008 after the death of his wife.