Kateryna Desnytska was a Ukrainian-born nurse, born in Lutsk in 1886, who studied at a medical nursing school in Saint Petersburg and served as a volunteer nurse in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War, receiving the Cross of St. George. She met Prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath of Siam at a ball in 1905, married him in Constantinople in 1906 on condition that she be his only wife, and lived in Siam as Princess of Phitsanulok. After their divorce in 1919 she moved to Peking and worked with the Russian Benevolent Society and the Red Cross, later marrying an American engineer. She died in Paris in 1960.
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Kateryna Desnytska was born on 27 April 1886 in Lutsk, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire (today northwestern Ukraine).
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27 April 1886-3 January 1960) was a Ukrainian-born nurse who became a princess
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Desnytska was buried in Paris following her death on 3 January 1960.
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was a Ukrainian-born nurse who became a princess as wife of the Siamese prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath
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She was a participant in the Russo-Japanese War and was awarded the Cross of St. George (1904).
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Kateryna Desnytska was born on 27 April 1886 in Lutsk, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire (today northwestern Ukraine).
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She was a participant in the Russo-Japanese War and was awarded the Cross of St. George (1904).
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Desnitski volunteered as nurse in Manchuria where she served in the Russo-Japanese War and was awarded three medals.
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