Place of Birth: Mantua, Lombardy, Italy
Date of Birth: January 20, 1950
Ethnicity:
*Italian (father)
*Russian, some German (mother)
Franca Sozzani is an Italian journalist. She has been the editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia since 1988.
Franca is the daughter of Vincenzo Sozzani and Katia Maltzov/Maltzoff.
Franca’s maternal grandparents were Nicolaï Sergeïevitch Maltzov (the son of Sergei Ivanovitch Maltzov and Princess Irina Vladimirovna Bariatinskaïa) and Prascovia Apollinarievna Boutenieva (the daughter of Count Appolinari Constantinovitch Chreptowitch-Boutenev and Princess Maria Sergeievna Trubetskaya). Princess Maria’s father was religious philosopher Prince Sergei Nikolaevich Troubetzkoy.
Source: Genealogy of Franca’s maternal grandparents, Nicolaï Sergeïevitch Maltzov and Prascovia Apollinarievna Boutenieva – http://www.genealogics.org
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