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Oct 5, 2016 · Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna. The great-great-granddaughter of Alexander II lives in Spain and is the Imperial House of Russia's official head. Grand Duke George Mikhailovich....
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Apr 5, 2024 · This was the fate of the sister of Emperor Nicholas II — Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. In 1919, on the British warship HMS Marlborough she and her children left Russia forever to build a new life on the shores of Great Britain.
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Ксения Александровна Романова; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1875 – 20 April 1960) was the elder daughter and fourth child of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (née Princess Dagmar of Denmark) and the sister of Emperor Nicholas II.
Aug 4, 2021 · After the Bolsheviks seized Russia in 1917 and executed the Romanovs, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, the tsar’s sister, fled to Canada. She lived in this small apartment above a beauty...
Oct 16, 2017 · It was there, in a small apartment belonging to a friend, that Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna died, a continent and an ocean away from her homeland. She represented the last direct link to the Romanov family, which had ruled Russia from 1613 until the revolution of 1917.
Oct 12, 2018 · He is also the grandson of Duchess Xenia, who fled Russia in 1917 along with her mother and others on a warship sent by her cousin, Britain’s King George V. Born in London in 1923, he has lived...
Apr 6, 2017 · On 6 April 1917, in the midst of violence and unrest, Grand Duchess Xenia Romanov left St Petersburg on a train to the Crimea, never to return again. Xenia’s journey into exile which began on her 42nd birthday, 100 years ago today, eventually brought her to Hampton Court Palace.
