Mary Teissier

Mary Teissier (born Maria Petrovna Perevostchikova; 27 December 1917 – 1 August 1990) was a Ukrainian-French socialite, heiress, interior designer, and art collector.

Teissier was born Maria Petrovna Perevostchikova in Odesa in 1917 to Petr Ghika-Perevostchikov and Countess Elizabeta Alexeevna Belevskya-Zhukovskya.

Teissier's maternal grandparents were Count Aleksey Belevsky-Zhukovsky, a second cousin of Tsar Nicholas II, and Princess Maria Petrovna Troubetskaya.

[1][2] She was a great-granddaughter of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, the son of Tsar Alexander II and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, and his mistress Alexandra Zhukovskaya, Baroness of Seggiano, the daughter of Vasily Zhukovsky and Elizabeth von Reutern (daughter of Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern).

[2][8] When Getty died in 1976, Teissier was listed alongside Lady Ursula, Kitson, Burch, Countess Marianne von Alvensleben, Karin Mannhardt, Hildegard Kuhn, Gloria Bigelow, Mary Maginnis, and Belene Clifford in his will.