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Piotr Dmitrijevitch Galitzine, Prince Galitzine

b. 1955

Born
25 Mar 1955, Mendoza
Country of birth
Argentina

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A life in time

  1. Born · Mendoza

    Birth, Mendoza

What was it like?

The world around Mendoza, 1955: who ruled, who else was alive, how people lived. This is general history, not a record about the family, and every item shows where it comes from.

Piotr was born around the same time as Hugo Chávez, Jackie Chan, and Tom Hanks.

Born around the same time

  • Hugo Chávez

    1954 · president of Venezuela (1999–2013); revolutionary and military officer

  • Jackie Chan

    1954 · Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

  • Tom Hanks

    1956 · American actor and film producer (born 1956)

  • Martina Navratilova

    1956 · Czech-American tennis player

  • Vladimir Putin

    1952 · President of the Russian Federation

  • Angela Merkel

    1954 · chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)

Fashion

The Magic Suit weight loss product

A product called the Magic Suit, a one-piece garment, was advertised in the mid-1950s with the claim that it could slim the wearer by 600 grams per hour without diet or exercise.

Cost of maintaining a professional appearance

By the late 1920s, working women such as cashiers and typists spent approximately 30 percent of their salary on their appearance, including clothing, footwear, accessories, and cosmetics.

Music

Folklore dance and instruments

During 1950s festivals and gatherings, participants enjoyed traditional dances like the chacarera and zamba, accompanied by instruments including the guitar, violin, and bombo leguero drum.

Around 1947–1950

Folk music record hits

In 1947, the rasguido doble El rancho 'e la Cambicha became a massive hit, selling three million copies and helping kickstart a cultural shift toward folk music in Argentine homes.

Getting around

Train travel times between towns

The "Expreso Epecuen" train service between Puente Alsina and Carhué operated with a travel time of 10 hours between 1945 and 1960.

Tractors used for transport

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, rural producers increasingly used tractors, originally for farm work, to transport people and goods to towns, especially when roads were muddy.

Daily life

Inequity in water access across regions

While nearly all homes in Buenos Aires city had running water by 1960, only 42 percent of homes in the wider province of Buenos Aires enjoyed the same service. Many households relied on manual water pumps until infrastructure improvements expanded access.

School life and breakfast for children

School children in rural peri-urban areas often enjoyed a communal school breakfast consisting of chocolate milk or mate cocido with bread. These schools also served as integration centers, where children of various immigrant backgrounds were required to speak only Spanish in class.

Food

Dining out and smoking were common rituals

Dining out was a significant social ritual for middle-class families, who commonly enjoyed meals accompanied by wine, soda water, and bread, while smoking at the table was a widely accepted and common practice.

Families shared small plates called platitos

In seaside resorts like Mar del Plata, families frequently ate 'platitos', which were small shared plates like mussels, calamari, meatballs, or ham, often consumed with fingers or toothpicks.

Prices and wages

Worker wages and beef prices in 1950

In the 1950s, a worker typically earned over 500 pesos per month, while a kilo of asado beef cost only 5 centavos.

Around 1937–1954

Rising wages for Argentine workers

In the late 1930s, an Argentine worker earned half the income of an English laborer, but by 1954, wages reached 58 percent of national income, the highest in history.

Work

Extremely Long Shifts in Canning Industry

In Mar del Plata's seasonal fish canning industry, workers sometimes endured shifts of 18 to 20 hours when processing fresh fish, often working while standing for over 12 hours.

Rotating Factory Shifts During Harvest Season

During the sugar harvest season, factory workers followed a rotating schedule with shifts from 4 to 12, 12 to 8, and 20 to 4 to ensure continuous production.

News and letters

FonoPostal vinyl audio message service

People used a service called FonoPostal to send audio messages on vinyl records, which cost 1.18 to 1.50 pesos compared to only 0.05 pesos for a regular letter.

Mail transit times by sea and air

Letters sent by ship took an average of 36 to 38 days to arrive, while airmail between 1947 and 1954 took 10 to 18 days.

During their lifetime

  1. 1955

    Major polio epidemic strikes Argentina

    A massive polio epidemic broke out between late 1955 and early 1956, causing widespread fear and prompting the introduction of Salk and Sabin vaccines into the childhood immunization calendar.

  2. 1976

    The Noche de los Lápices persecution

    The Noche de los Lápices in 1976 involved the kidnapping and persecution of secondary school students in La Plata, marking a period of intense state violence.

  3. 1982

    Falklands War begins and ends

    Argentina occupied the British-held Falkland Islands in 1982, initiating a 10-week war that resulted in significant loss and accelerated the end of the military junta.

  4. 1987

    Civil divorce law approved

    The civil divorce law was approved in 1987, representing a significant change in social rights for Argentine society.

  5. 1991

    Peso pegged to the US dollar

    In 1991, the government established a fixed exchange rate, pegging the peso to the U.S. dollar to control hyperinflation.

  6. 1994

    AMIA terrorist bombing kills 86

    A terrorist bombing at a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires killed 86 people in 1994, marking the country's worst terrorist atrocity.

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Four generations back to the right, the children to the left. The number beside a child counts the generations of descendants known after them.