The Personal & Private World of Tzaims Luksus aka Prince Dmitri Ivanovitch Yusupov-Luksiev

Captain & Master 

Tzaims Luksus, FRSA

OF

 2.0 AMERICA

 Schooner

Key West, Florida 

2014

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Tzaims has been wearing Sailors uniforms since he was 2 years old in 1934.

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Tzaims' 1904 144 foot 

Barkentine 

"Regina Maris" 

Tzaims' Schooner 

"Unicorne"

Buckthorne Hall

Residence of 

Tzaims Luksus, FRSA

Front entrance with pair of antique

London Street lamps from 

1800s Charles Dickens era.

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Tzaims found the estate one early misty morning with a for sale sign nailed to a tree.  He was traveling through Vermont to New Hampshire on a 1963 Labor day weekend.  It struck his soul since he had a recurring dream when a child of this very property.  Dark gabled mansion, long circular drive, old trees and him burning leaves in the gravel drive on Halloween afternoon.  Same dream over and over.

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He immediately called the number and lease/purchased the mansion that same weekend and moved in on 1 October 1963, burning leaves on the gravel drive on Halloween.

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It turned out that his mother's great aunt's youngest son, her cousin, built it in 1901. 

Tzaims 

Country Cottage

Village of Old Bennington,

VERMONT

New England's most beautiful, historic village.

The 1842 George Stevens

14 rank double keyboard 

Tracker Pipe Organ

One of a kind priceless

14 feet high, 12 feet front X 10 feet side.

Built in

Cambridge

Massachusetts

In 1963 Tzaims heard that antique tracker church organs were being broken up with sledge hammers, removed and replaced by electronic organs, and were offered free to anyone willing to move it out of the church.

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  Tzaims wanted one built before 1850 suitable to play Bach and Handel and found this Stevens Tracker.  He got two trucks and took his fabric mill hands to move it and lift it in peices, all unscrewed and unpegged, through an attic window where he reessembled it himself one Labor day weekend, refinished and restored it as seen today.

Buckthorne Hall

Winter

The Serbian ( Olympic) Spruce 

was planted by Tzaims and his 

Younger brother Gene (John)

to replace a specimen Elm that died from Dutch Elm desease.

Buckthorne Hall Garden

Winter

An early Autumn Snow fall.

Buckthorne Hall

South Lawn, Forest, Winter View to

Mt. Anthony

Mt Anthony

Spring

Forsythia in full bloom.

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Buckthorne Hall

Entrance front

 Driveway

Buckthorne Hall

Entrance front, Flower beds

Buckthorne Hall

Stone steps and entrance to formal gardens

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Tzaims

27 years old

1959

THE MEDIEVAL TROUBADORE

Studied Classical Music,

Fine Art & Classical Dance

Playing the Elizabethan Lute, Theorbo, and singing 

Early Medieval English & French Ballads

at his 

GOLDEN HORNE CAFFE

IN THE CASTLE

ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA

December 1958 - APRIL 1960 

Tzaims' Continental Caffe 

was in the 

Stone Carriage House

&

He lived in the 

Stone Studio

above it

see: Wikipedia for History.

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The world of Tzaims Luksus is quite different from  

An ordinary American being of 

Landed Gentry of Patria

1912

Viking Russian, Mongolian, 

&

British heritage

1603

Cape James (Cape Cod), 

Nantucket & Martha's Vineyard

1607

Founder and Builder of 

Fort James

Jamestown, Virginia.

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Buckthorne Hall

Garden Front

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Tzaims' English Rose Garden

Tzaims' White "Himalayan" Climbing Roses

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Buckthorne Hall

Dining Room

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Tzaims is the scion of a noble, royal and aristocratic European and early American family of Landed gentry 

of the 

English, Scottish, Welsh, French, 

founding families of the 

Finch-White-Sanford-Collins-deVere- Baldwin-deRiver families of the

Massachusetts Bay Colony 1603, 

and 

Founders of New Haven Connecticut 1636, through the Wingfield-Cecil-Charteris-Wemyss-Douglass-Stuart-Gosnel families, 

builders of 

Fort James of Jamestown Virginia 1607.

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Buckthorne Hall

Great Hall

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Tutored by his Princely father, Ivan Yusupovitch, 

a master of caligraphy, 

in his early years until 6 years old, then by his father's examples he was educated under the strict guidelines to be a king, emperor, of Nobless Oblige.

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Tzaims' father tutored his sons up to their 6th year in Reading, wrting, calligraphy, arithmatic, stoic philosophy and logic based on Princely values and scholarship so they were advanced above all other students in their primary, elementary and high schools.

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Garden Front of Buckthorne Hall 

from formal gardens

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Though growing up modestly in the praries of Oak Lawn, Illinois, from 1936 to 1950, four miles South of Chicago, Illinois, West of Lake Michigan, he had constant access to Chicago's finest cultural attributes, Chicago Art Institute, Field Museum of Natural History, Planetarium, Acquarium, the Rosenwald Museum of Science & Industry , and mixing with people of all economic and nationalist levels of society.

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Buckthorne Hall

Great Hall

Crystal Chandeliers 

on candle light dimmers.

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As a young adult, having traveled the world first as a Yeoman-Seaman in the US Navy, then on his own, he became an internationally sophistocated gentleman scholar attending and reading at 

St Edmund Hall Oxford

St. Edmund Hall 

Oxford University 

where Tzaims read 

The Greats 

in 1960

& 

Medieval Studies 

in 1991

for his D.Phil, however, Tzaims was already elected by 

HRH Prince Philip, KG 

and the 

Royal Counsel of the Royal Society of Art 

as a 

Life Fellow in 1974 

and

his standing as a FRSA elevated him above an 

Oxford D.Phil degree.

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St Endmund Hall 

Oxford

Staircase to 

Tzaims' Student Lodgings

& 

Tutor's Lodging Staircase

St Edmund Hall 

Oxford

Library Entrance

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Tzaims' College Life

at

The Quad

 St Edmund Hall

 Oxford University

The St Edmund Hall 

Old Dining Hall

St Edmund Hall 

Oxford Library 

formerly

St. Peters Chapel

St Edmund Hall 

Library

St Edmund Hall 

Oxford 

Entrance to Old Dining Hall

St Edmund Hall 

Oxford 

General Architectural Plan

The oldest Academic Hall of 

Oxford University 

Founded 1278 AD

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 Tzaims' extraordinary life at Oxford University, and having always been his own creative superior he chose, in order to make a living, to designing haute couture silk and wool woven fabrics.  Keeping his creative fine art activity non commercial and strictly personal

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Tzaims' Life Drawing 

oil on canvas 3 feet x 7 feet 

Compendium of Male Nudes

Entitled:

Polymachaeroplagadies

created at

 PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS 1980

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Tzaims' Abstract Painting 

of 

"MAN IN SPACE"

 from a group of

25 large oils on canvas

&

 60 oils on fine etching paper

for

Prix di Rome 

AMERICAN ACADEMY 

AT 

ROME

1981

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Deck scaffolding structure to prevent kitchen chimney from collapsing on house and kitchen dining garden.

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Pennsylvania Academy of the  Fine Arts

Tzaims entered as a student in 1956.

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Front of Buckthorne Hall

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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum & School

Benjamin West Painting 

"Death on a Pale Horse"

where Tzaims first studied Fine and Mural art, Anatomy and life drawing.

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Buckthorne Hall

Tzaims Drawing Room

Tzaims with his Mother's Wingfield family visiting from England.

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Tzaims, also known as 

Prince Dmitri Ivanovitch Yusupov-Luksiev 

is a Russian Imperial Aristocrat.

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NOBLESS OBLIGE

HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENCE

AUM MANI PADME HUM

Tzaims'

Buckthorne Hall Estate 

Garden Gate

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Tzaims' Garden

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Buckthorne Hall

Dining Room 

with

 Tzaims'

Mt Everest Tibetan Buddhist Painting

c.1972

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Buckthorne Hall

Entrance Garden Gate

flying

 Templar's Banner

& 

National Flag of England

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Buckthorne Hall

 Formal Garden Restored by Tzaims in 1963

 Designed by 

Martha Brooks Brown

First woman landscape architect

in 1905 

who designed previosly

the famous 

White House Rose Garden 

IN

 Washington,DC

&

The Pratt Family gardens in 

Brooklyn, NY●

Buckthorne Hall

 Great Hall

 Reception Buffet table

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Buckthorne Hall

 Datura In Flower

Grown by

 Tzaims 

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Specimen Hybrid Iris 

named

Starship Enterprise

grown by Tzaims.

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Buckthorne Hall is preserved as a Vermont Historic Heritage Estate dating from 1901 with William BULL Architect and Martha Brooks Brown (Hutchinson) Garden and landscape Designer. 1905

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Historic Heritage properties like Buckthorne Hall plus his famous interior design improvements, decor and collection are priceless.  Tzaims  plans to create it as a house museum.

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Buckthorne Hall

Stone Garden steps Entrance

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Tzaims added 14 delecate Gold Plated French Empire, European, Crystal Chandeliers in different sizes to represent his Princely Father's St. Petersburg Palaces in Czarskoia Selo and the Yusupov-Luksiev Palace on the Moika River in St. petersburg, Russia, where his father was born in 1897.

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Txsims,' mansion containes the entire heritage heirlooms of both his English-American mother's family, his Father's Imperial Russian family heirlooms plus his 88 year collectioms and art works.

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This lifelong Historic family treasure  is an historic Vermont Heritage property 

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Buckthorne Hall

1901

The Historic 

Howard Hart Shields-Tzaims Luksus Mansion

The first house to gentrify the 

Village of Old Bennington 

as it is today.

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SEMPER FIDELIS

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Tzaims 

 a botanist, horticulturist, artist, designer environmentalist, philosopher, and philanthropist

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Tzaims 

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Tzaims' 

UNICORNE CLUB 

Cafe Bistro 

Hauture Couture 

& 

Bespoke Men's Boutique 

Founded 

March 2020

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By Appointment 

&

 VIP Reservation Only

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TZAIMS LUKSUS, LTD

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Zay Yar Aung

President

&

Executive Director

Tzaims Luksus, LTD

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For more information go to:

Tzaims Luksus

Wikipedia.