Wood, Ludmilla Molodovsky 1906-?

Ludmilla Molodovsky was born in 1906 in Russia, the youngest daughter of Privy Counsellor Michael Molodovsky, the Charge d'Affaires for Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov. During the Bolshevik Revolution, the Grand Duke was arrested, imprisoned and eventually executed. The Molodovsky's escaped with their lives to Taganrog, in southern Russia. In December 1920, the Molodovsky's went to Novorossisk with the British military mission on the Black Sea and then sailed into permanent exile on the last boat to leave before the Bolsheviks seized the City. The Molodovksy's settled in Paris where Ludmilla and her three siblings all earned law degrees. Ludmilla became associated with the Paris office of the New York law firm of White and Case. In 1937, she married Charles A. Wood, a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy and Columbia Law School. Charles and Ludmilla came to own his family businesses, The Charles S. Wood Company and the Insulation Realty Company. Ludmilla served at Charles S. Wood Company as executive vice-president and for five years had to run the company alone as Charles was in ill health. The Woods retired to Mexico in 1967 and Mr. Woods died there in late in 1968. At that time, Mrs. Wood moved to the Washington, D. C. area. Mrs. Charles M. Wood gave her collection of Russian books, biographies, and portraits of historical figures from Tsarist Russia to the Clark Special Collections Branch of the United States Air Force Academy in 1986 during the Twelfth Military History Symposium.