The members of this family bear the title Grand
Duke/Grand Duchess of
As with many royal families which have not reigned for a
considerable period of time, disputes have arisen as to who should be
considered the head of the family and heir to the right to be claimant to the
throne. As long as Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich lived there was no question
who it should be. After his execution was confirmed, however, things became
very muddy. The next member of the family in terms of primogeniture was Grand
Duke Kirill Vladimirovich. However, some argue that because Kirill's mother had
never converted to Orthodoxy all three of her sons were ineligible to succeed.
Furthermore, some argue that even if Kirill was entitled to succeed as heir,
his children were not, because Kirill was married to a first cousin and married
her without permission of the Emperor, and furthermore swore loyalty to the
Duma before Nicholas II had abdicated, and all these factors are seen by some
as prohibiting the accession of Kirill's descendants. While many people
eventually recognized Kirill as heir, others persisted in believing that Grand
Duke Dimitri Pavlovich was the rightful heir. Currently there are no surviving
male members of the family born of equal marriages. It is said that unless a
member of the family makes an equal marriage, with the permission of the
Emperor, the issue of that marriage is not eligible to succeed. This raises the
question: if it's unclear who is the Emperor, how can his permission be
obtained? For instance, the late Prince Paul Dimitrievich Ilyinsky is
considered to be the product of an unequal marriage; but, if Grand Duke Kirill
was ineligible to succeed, then Grand Duke Dimitri himself was the head of the
house when he married, and needed no one's permission to do so, and it can be
argued that the head of the house can marry whomsoever he pleases.
Assuming, however, as most experts do, that Kirill was
eligible to succeed as heir to the Russian throne, and assuming also that his
son Wladimir's marriage is to be considered an eligible marriage, then Wladimir
was succeeded in 1992 by his daughter, all male-line members of the family born
of equal marriages having predeceased him. However, others dispute the
eligibility of Wladimir's marriage, and on that basis other descendants of the
family have advanced claims.
Lastly, though few members of the Romanov family ever
seem to care about this, they all appear to be dynasts of the old duchy of
Holstein-Gottorp, through their ancestor Emperor Peter
ALEKSEI, Tsar and Autocrat of all the
1a) Dimitri (
2a) Jewdokia (
3a) Marfa (
4a) Aleksei (
5a) Anna (Jan 1655-May 1659)
6a) Sophia, Regent of
7a) Jekaterina (
8a) Maria (
9a) FEODOR
1b) Ilya (
10a) Feodosia (
11a) Semen, b.Apr 1665; most sources state that he died
young (
12a)
1b) Maria (
2b) Feodosia (
3b) Catherine (Jekaterina) (
1c) Elisabeth Katharina
Christina, known as Anna Karlovna/Anna Leopoldovna, Regent of Russia for her
son 1740-1741 (Rostock 18 Dec 1718-Kholmoghori 19 Mar 1746); m.St.Petersburg 14
Jul 1739 Anton Ulrich, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel 28 Aug
1714-Kholmoghori 4 May 1776)
1d)
2d) Catherine (St.Petersburg 26
Jul 1741-Horsens, Denmark 21 Apr 1807)
3d) Elisabeth (Elisaveta)
(Kholmoghori
4d) Peter (Kholmoghori
5d) Alexei (Cholmogory Mar
1746-Horsens 21 Oct 1787; bur Horsens; his death date reported as 21 October in
some contemporary sources, including official British and French Gazettes; 22
October is the date on his monumental inscription, but dates on that
inscription for his sisters may also be in error)
4b) ANNA, Empress and Autocrat
of all the Russias 30 Jan 1730, Duchess of
5b) Praskovia (
13a) PETER I, Tsar and Autocrat of all the Russias,
jointly with his brother Ivan 7 May 1682 until Ivan's death, then sole Emperor
and Autocrat of all the Russias (Moscow 9 Jun 1672-St.Petersburg 8 Feb 1725);
m.1st Moscow 6 Feb 1689 (div 1698) Evdokia Ilarionovna Lopukhina (10
Jul 1670-Moscow 7 Sep 1731); m.2nd, allegedly, 8 Nov 1707, and
publicly in St.Petersburg 19 Feb 1712 Martha Samuilovna Skavronskaya, who took
the name Catherine on her Orthodox baptism and who succeeded him as Empress
CATHERINE I on his death (Rengen, Estonia 5/15 Apr 1685-St.Petersburg 17 May
1727)
1b) Alexei (
1c) Natalia (St.Petersburg
2c) PETER II, Emperor and
Autocrat of all the
2b) Alexander (
3b) Paul, b.and d.1693
4b) Paul, b.1704, d.by 1707
5b) Peter, b.Sep 1705, d.by 1707
6b) Anna (Moscow 7 Feb 1708-Kiel
15 May 1728); m.St.Petersburg 1 Jun 1725 Karl Friedrich, Duke of
Holstein-Gottorp (30 Apr 1700-18 Jun 1739)
1c) Karl Peter Ulrich, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp;
succeeded as PETER
1d) PAUL, Emperor and Autocrat
of all the Russias (Summer Palace 1 Oct 1754-murdered at Summer Palace 24 Mar
1801); m.1st St.Petersburg 10 Oct 1773 Wilhelmine (who took the name
Natalia Alexeivna), Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt (Prenzlau 25 Jun
1755-St.Petersburg 26 Apr 1776); m.2nd St.Petersburg 7 Oct 1776
Sophie (who took the name Maria Feodorovna), Dss of Württemberg (Stettin 25 Oct
1759-St.Petersburg [some sources say Pavlovsk] 5 Nov 1828)
1e) ALEXANDER I, Emperor and
Autocrat of All the Russias (St.Petersburg 23 Dec 1777-Taganrog 1 Dec 1825);
m.St.Petersburg 9 Oct 1793 Luise Pss of Baden, who took the name Elisabeth
Alexeievna (Karlsruhe 24 Jan 1779-Bjelev 16 May 1826)
1f) Maria (St.Petersburg 29 May
1799-St.Petersburg 8 Jul 1800)
2f) Elisabeth (St.Petersburg 15
Nov 1806-St.Petersburg 12 May 1808)
2e) Constantine, renounced his
succession rights 26 Jan 1822, which renunciation became official 28 Aug 1823
(Tsarskoie-Selo 8 May 1779-Vitebsk 27 Jun 1831); m.1st St.Petersburg
26 Feb 1796 (div 1820) Juliane Pss of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, who took the name
Anna Feodorovna on her Orthodox baptism (Coburg 23 Sep 1781-Elfenau 15 Aug
1860); m.2nd Warsaw 24 May 1820 Css Joanna Grudzinski, cr Pss
Lowicka (Serene Highness) 1820 (d.Tsarskoie-Selo 29 Nov 1831; NOTE: l'Allemagne Dynastique does not show a birth
date for Pss Lowicka, but shows that sources give four different possibilities:
Warsaw 21 Sep 1799, Poznan 29 Sep 1799, 29 Nov 1791 and 29 Sep 1795)
3e) Alexandra (St.Petersburg 9
Aug 1783-Vienna 16 Mar 1801); m.St.Petersburg 30 Oct 1799 Joseph, Archduke of
Austria (Florence 9 Mar 1776-Ofen 13 Jan 1847)
4e) Elena (St.Petersburg 24 Dec
1784-Ludwigslust 24 Sep 1803); m.Gatchina 23 Oct 1799 Friedrich Ludwig,
Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Ludwigslust 13 Jun
1778-Ludwigslust 29 Nov 1819)
5e) Maria (St.Petersburg 16 Feb
1786-Belvedere, nr Weimar 23 Jun 1859); m.St.Petersburg 3 Aug 1804 Karl
Friedrich, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar (Weimar 2 Feb 1783-Belvedere 8 Jul 1853)
6e) Catherine (St.Petersburg 21
May 1788-Stuttgart 9 Jan 1819); m.1st Peterhof 3 Aug 1809 Georg,
Duke of Oldenburg (9 May 1784-Twer 27 Dec 1812); m.2nd St.Petersburg
24 Jan 1816 King Wilhelm I of Württemberg (Lüben 27 Sep 1781-Schloß Rosenstein
25 Jun 1864)
7e) Olga (St.Petersburg 22 Jul
1792-St.Petersburg 26 Jan 1795)
8e) Anna (St.Petersburg 18 Jan 1795-The
Hague 1 Mar 1865); m.St.Petersburg 21 Feb 1816 King Willem II of the
Netherlands (The Hague 6 Dec 1792-Tilburg 17 Mar 1849)
9e) NICHOLAS I, Emperor and
Autocrat of all the Russias (Tsarskoie Selo 6 Jul 1796-St.Petersburg 2 Mar
1855); m.St.Petersburg 13 Jul 1817 Charlotte (who took the name Alexandra
Feodorovna) Pss of Prussia (Charlottenburg 13 Jul 1798-Tsarskoie Selo 1 Nov
1860)
1f) ALEXANDER II, Emperor and
Autocrat of all the Russias (Moscow 29 Apr 1818-assassinated at St.Petersburg
13 Mar 1881); m.1st St.Petersburg 28 Apr 1841 Marie Pss of Hesse and
the Rhine (Darmstadt 8 Aug 1824-St.Petersburg 3 Jun 1880); m.2nd
Tsarskoie Selo 18 Jul 1880 Pss Catherine Dolgoruky, cr Pss Yurievska (Serene
Highness) 17 Dec 1880 (Moscow 14 Nov 1847-Nice 15 Feb 1922); his issue by this
second marriage was legitimated after the marriage, though born before
1g) Alexandra (St.Petersburg 30
Aug 1842-St.Petersburg 10 Jul 1849)
2g) Nicholas, Tsarevich
(Tsarskoie Selo 20 Sep 1843-Nice 24 Apr 1865)
3g) ALEXANDER
1h) NICHOLAS II, Emperor and
Autocrat of all the Russias, abdicated for himself and his son 2/15 Mar 1917
(St.Petersburg 6 May 1868-executed at Ekaterinburg 17 Jul 1918);
m.St.Petersburg 26 Nov 1894 Alix (who took the name Alexandra Feodorovna) Pss
of Hesse and the Rhine (Darmstadt 6 Jun 1872-executed at Ekaterinburg 17 Jul
1918)
1i) Olga (Tsarskoie-Selo 15 Nov
1895-executed Ekaterinburg 17 Jul 1918)
2i) Tatiana (Peterhof 10 Jun
1897-executed Ekaterinburg 17 Jul 1918)
3i) Maria (Peterhof 26 Jun
1899-executed Ekaterinburg 17 Jul 1918)
4i) Anastasia (Peterhof 18 Jun
1901-executed Ekaterinburg 17 Jul 1918)
5i) Alexis, Tsarevich (Peterhof
12 Aug 1904-executed Ekaterinburg 17 Jul 1918)
2h) Alexander (St.Petersburg 7
Jun 1869-St.Petersburg 2 May 1870)
3h) George (Tsarskoie-Selo 6 May
1871-Abbas-Touman, Caucasus 9 Aug 1899)
4h) Xenia (St.Petersburg 6 Apr
1875-Wilderness House, Hampton Court 20 Apr 1960); m.St.Petersburg 6 Aug 1894
Alexander, Grand Duke of Russia (13 Apr 1866-26 Feb 1933; below)
5h) MICHAEL, Emperor and
Autocrat of all the Russias briefly after his brother's abdication 2/15 Mar
1917; the next day he signed a manifesto declaring that he would not assume the
position of Emperor until and unless a representative body should decide on the
continuation of the monarchy (St.Petersburg 22 Nov 1878-executed near Perm 13
Jul 1918); m.(morganatically) Vienna 16/29 Oct 1912 Natalia Cheremetevskya, cr
Pss Romanovskaya-Brassova (Serene Highness) 1928 (Moscow 27 Jun 1880-Paris 26
Feb 1952)
1i)
Ct George Brassov (Moscow, or Udinka, nr Moscow 24 Jul 1910-k.in car wreck at
Auxerre 22 Jul 1931)
6h) Olga (Peterhof 13 Jun
1882-Toronto 24 Nov 1960); m.1st Gatschina 9 Aug 1901 (div 1916)
Peter, Duke of Oldenburg (St.Petersburg 21 Nov 1868-Biarritz 11 Mar 1924); m.2nd
Kiev 1 Nov 1916 Nikolai Kulikovsky (Evstratovka, Ukraine 11 Nov
1882-Cooksville, Ontario 11 Aug 1958)
4g) Wladimir (St.Petersburg 22
Apr 1847-St.Petersburg 17 Feb 1909); m.St.Petersburg 28 Aug 1874 Marie, Dss of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Ludwigslust 14 May 1854-Contrexéville 6 Sep 1920)
1h) Alexander (Tsarskoie-Selo
31 Aug 1875-St.Petersburg 16 Mar 1877)
2h) Kirill (Tsarskoie-Selo 30
Sep 1876-Neuilly 12 Oct 1938); m.Tegernsee 8 Oct 1905 Victoria Melita Pss of
Great Britain and Ireland, Pss of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, etc (Malta 25 Nov
1876-Amorbach 2 Mar 1936); NOTE: there is some confusion about his death date;
Almanach de Gotha, as early as 1939, said 13 October, which is also the date
given in GHdA, Europäische Stammtafeln, l’Allemagne Dynastique, and also
in “The Grand Dukes” by Pr David Chavchavadse; however, a
correspondent has pointed out to me that some contemporary newspapers reported
that he died on 12 October, and some generally authoritative books about him
and the family in general also say that he died on the 12th; one of these books
is a biography of Kirill which includes an epilogue written by his son
Wladimir, wherein Wladimir describes being present at the time of death, saying
that it occurred at 1:15 P.M. on 12 October
1i) Marie (Coburg 2 Feb
1907-Madrid 25 Oct 1951); m.Coburg 24 Feb 1925 Karl Fst zu Leiningen
(Strassburg 13 Feb 1898-Saransk, Russia 2 Aug 1946); note: though she and her
sister were not grandchildren of an Emperor, they were generally accorded the
title Grand Duchess on the grounds that their father was head of the house;
meanwhile, Marie's grandson, Karl Emich Prinz zu Leiningen, has advanced a
claim to be heir to the Russian throne
2i) Kira (Paris 9 May
1909-St.Briac-sur-Mer 8 Sep 1967); m.Doorn 4 May 1938 Louis Ferdinand Pr of
Prussia (Marmorpalais 9 Nov 1907-Bremen 25 Sep 1994)
3i) Vladimir (Porvoo [Borgå],
Finland 30 Aug 1917-Miami 21 Apr 1992); m.Lausanne 13 Aug 1948 Pss Leonida
Bagration-Moukhransky (Tiflis 23 Sep 1914-Madrid 23 May 2010); note: as heir to
his father, Vladimir assumed and was generally accorded the title Grand Duke
1j) Maria (b.Madrid 23 Dec
1953); m.Madrid 22 Sep 1976 (div 1986) Franz Wilhelm Pr of Prussia (b.Grünberg
3 Sep 1943); note: as heir to her father, on the grounds that no other eligible
members of the family survive, Maria has assumed and is generally accorded the
title Grand Duchess
1k) George, Pr of Prussia
(b.Madrid 13 Mar 1981); as only child of his mother, George is generally
accorded the title Grand Duke of Russia, and does not use his Prussian title;
m.Moscow 24 Sep 2021 (rel) St. Petersburg 1 Oct 2021 Rebecca Bettarini
3h) Boris (St.Petersburg 24 Nov
1877-Paris 9 Nov 1943); m.Genoa 12 Jul 1919 Zinaida Rachevskya (Dvinsk 3 Nov
1898-Paris 30 Jan 1963)
4h) Andrei (Tsarskoie-Selo 14 May
1879-Paris 30 Oct 1956); m.Cannes 30 Jan 1921 Marie-Mathilde Kchessinska, cr
Pss Romanovskya-Krassinskya (Ligovo 31 Aug 1872-Paris 8 Dec 1971)
1i)
Pr Vladimir Romanovsky-Krasinsky (St.Petersburg 30 Jun 1902-Paris 23 Apr 1974);
Mathilde Kchessinska had been involved with the future Emperor Nicholas II, and
then with Grand Duke Serge Mikhailovich, before settling with Andrei; it is
said that Prince Vladimir was wont to say that he was never sure whether Andrei
or Serge was his biological father; however, Andrei recognized Vladimir as his
son after the revolution
5h) Elena (Tsarskoie-Selo 29
Jan 1882-Athens 13 Mar 1957); m.Tsarskoie Selo 29 Aug 1902 Nicholas Pr of
Greece and Denmark (Athens 22 Jan 1872-Athens 8 Feb 1938)
5g) Alexei (St.Petersburg 14 Jan
1850-Paris 14 Nov 1908); he is said to have m.(morganatically) in Italy 1870
Alexandra Zhukovskya (Düsseldorf 11 Nov 1842-Wendischbora 1899) though it is
not entirely clear whether this marriage actually occurred
1h)
Ct Alexei Belevsky-Zhukovsky (Salzburg 26 Nov 1871, k.by Soviets in the
Caucasus 1930/2); m.1st Ilyinskoye 29 Aug1894 (div) Pss Maria
Troubetskoya (Elezavetino 18 Jun 1872-Paris 20 Mar 1954); m.2nd Bss
Nathalie Schöpping
1i)
Css Elisabeth Belevsky-Zhukovsky (Moscow 8 Sep 1896-Princeton, NJ 30 Jul 1975);
m.1st Moscow Jan 1917 Peter Perevostchikov (Moscow 8 Mar
1872-Florence 28 Jun 1937); m.2nd Jul 1939 Arthur Lourie
(St.Petersburg 14 May 1892-Princeton NJ 13 Nov 1966)
2i)
Css Alexandra Belevskya-Zhukovskya (Moscow 4 Mar 1899-New York 12 Oct 1994);
m.1st Berlin 9 Sep 1925 (div 1950) Henry de Lepp (Alexandrovsk
1896-Dordogne, France May 1955); m.2nd New York City 20 Nov 1956
George Flevitzky (St.Petersburg 1904-New York City 11 May 1960)
3i)
Css Maria Belevskya-Zhukovskya (Moscow 26 Oct 1901-Cormeilles-en-Parisis 18 Aug
1996); m.1st Berlin 17 Sep 1922 Vladimir Sverbeev (Yalta 11 Nov
1890-Paris 3 Jan 1951); m.2nd New York City 28 Oct 1959 Vladimir
Ianouchevsky (St.Petersburg 9 Jun 1897-Paris 13 Feb 1970)
4i)
Ct Sergei Belevsky-Zhukovsky (Moscow 17 Feb 1903 [18 Feb 1904?]-Los Angeles 27
Nov 1956); m.Paris Jan 1926 Nina Botkina (Bern 19 May 1901-Lausanne 16 Oct
1966)
1j)
Css Elena Belevsky-Zhukovsky (Paris 31 Aug 1929-19 Apr 2021); m.1st
6g) Marie (Tsarskoie-Selo 17
Oct 1853-Zürich 24 Oct 1920); m.St.Petersburg 23 Jan 1874 Alfred Pr of Great
Britain and Ireland, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, etc (Windsor 6 Aug 1844-Rosenau
30 Jul 1900)
7g) Sergei (Tsarskoie-Selo 10
May 1857-assassinated Moscow 17 Feb 1905); m.St.Petersburg 15 Jun 1884
Elisabeth Pss of Hesse and the Rhine (Bessungen 1 Nov 1864-executed at
Alapaievsk 17/18 Jul 1918)
8g) Paul (Tsarskoie-Selo 11 Oct
1860-executed at Fortress of SS. Peter and Paul 30 Jan 1919); m.1st
St.Petersburg 17 Jun 1889 Alexandra Pss of Greece and Denmark (Corfu 30 Aug
1870-Ilinskoie 24 Sep 1891); m.2nd Livorno, Italy 10 Oct 1902 Olga
Karnovitch, cr Gfn von Hohenfelsen 1904, and Pss Paley (Serene Highness) 28 Aug
1915 (St.Petersburg 2/14 Dec 1864 [per “metrical record of St. Isaac's
Cathedral”; other sources say 1865 or 1866]-Paris 2 Nov 1929)
1h) Marie (St.Petersburg 18 Apr
1890-Schloß Mainau 13 Dec 1958); m.1st Tsarskoie Selo 3 May 1908
(div 1914) William Pr of Sweden (Tullgarn 17 Jun 1884-Stenhammer 5 Jun 1965);
m.2nd Pavlovsk 19 Sep 1917 (div 1924 [1927?]) Pr Sergei Poutiatine
(St.Petersburg 7 Dec 1893-Charleston, South Carolina 26 Feb 1966)
2h) Dimitri (Ilynskoye 18 Sep
1891-Davos 5 Mar 1942); m.Biarritz 21 Nov 1926 (div 1937) Audrey Emery (New
York City 4/5 Jul 1904-West Palm Beach, Florida 25 Nov 1971)
1i)
Pr Paul Romanovsky-Ilyinsky; on the death of Vladimir Kirillovich he is said to
have succeeded as de jure Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (London 27 Jan
1928-Palm Beach 10 Feb 2004); m.1st Honolulu 29 Jul 1949 (annulled
1951) Mary Evelyn Prince (Memphis, Tennessee Apr 1925); m.2nd Palm
Beach, Florida 1 Oct 1952 Angelica Philippa Kauffmann (Paris 21 Jun 1932 [or,
23 Mar 1932]-Palm Beach 19 Nov 2011)
1j)
Pr Dimitri Romanovsky-Ilyinsky, apparently de jure Duke of
Holstein-Gottorp (b.1954); m.New Haven, Connecticut 22 Sep 1979 Martha McDowell
(b.1952)
1k)
Pss Catherine Adair Romanovsky-Ilyinsky (b.1981); m.25 Jun 2011 Sam Goodyear
2k)
Pss Victoria Bayard Romanovsky-Ilyinsky (b.1984); m.7 Aug 2013 Mbeka Yves Binda
3k)
Pss Lela McDowell Romanovsky-Ilyinsky (b.1986)
2j)
Pss Paula Maria Romanovsky-Ilyinsky (b.1956); m.Cincinnati, Ohio 31 May 1980
Mark Comisar (b.1953)
3j)
Pss Anna Romanovsky-Ilyinsky (b.1958); m.1st 1980 (div 1990) Robin
de Young; m.2nd Cincinnati, Ohio 18 Dec 1992 David Wise Glossinger
(b.1953)
4j)
Pr Michael Romanovsky-Ilyinsky (b.1959); m.1st 1989 (div 1996) Paula
Maier; m.2nd 1999 (div 2001) Lisa Marie Schiesler; m.3rd
Cincinnati 13 May 2010 Debra Lewis, née Gibson (b.1963)
1k)
Pss Alexis Taylor Romanovsky-Ilyinsky (b.1994)
3h)
Pr Vladimir Paley (Paris 9 Jan 1897-executed Alapaevsk 17/18 Jul 1918)
4h)
Pss Irina Paley (Paris 21 Dec 1903-Biarritz 15 Nov 1990); m.1st
Paris 31 May 1923 (rel) 3 Jun 1923 (div 1936) Feodor Pr of Russia (below); m.2nd
Biarritz 11 Apr 1950 Cte Hubert de Monbrison (St.Avertin, France 15 Aug
1892-château de St-Roch 14 Apr 1981)
5h)
Pss Natalia Paley (Paris 5 Dec 1905-New York 27 Dec 1981); m.1st
Paris 10 Aug 1927 (div 1937) Lucien Lelong (Paris 11 Oct 1889-Anglet, Basses
Pyrenees 11 May 1958); m.2nd Southport, Fairfield, Connecticut 8 Sep
1937 John Chapman Wilson (Trenton, New Jersey 19 Aug 1899-New York City 29 Oct
1961)
9g)
Pr George Yurievsky (St.Petersburg 12 May 1872-Marburg 13 Sep 1913); m.Nice 11
Feb 1900 (div 1908) Alexandra Gfn von Zarnekau (Kutais 22 May 1883-Paris 28 May
1957)
1h)
Pr Alexander Yurievsky (Nice 21 Dec 1900-Männedorf, Switzerland 29 Feb 1988);
m.Flims
1i)
Pr George Yurievksy (b.St.Gall, Switzerland 8 Dec 1961); m.1st
Meilen, Switzerland 10 Oct 2003 (rel) Mainau 24 Oct 2003 (div Zürich 5 Mar
2012) Katharina Verhagen (b.Beerse, Belgium 26 Apr 1964); m.2nd 2013
Silvia Trumpp
10g)
Pss Olga Yurievsky (St.Petersburg 8 Nov 1873-Wiesbaden 10 Aug 1925); m.Nice
11g)
Boris (23 Feb 1876-11 Apr 1876), posthumously legitimated
12g)
Pss Catherine Yurievska (St.Petersburg 9 Sep 1878-North Hayling, England 22 Dec
1959); m.1st Biarritz 18 Oct 1901 Pr Alexander Bariatinsky (22 May
1870-Florence 6 Mar 1910); m.2nd Yalta 9 Oct 1916 (div 1924) Pr
Serge Obolensky (Tsarskoie-Selo 20 Sep 1890-Grosse Pointe, Michigan 29 Sep
1978)
2f) Maria (Pavlovsk 18 Aug
1819-St.Petersburg 21 Feb 1876); m.1st St.Petersburg 14 Jul 1839
Maximilian de Beauharnais, Duke von Leuchtenberg (Munich 2 Oct
1817-St.Petersburg 1 Nov 1852); m.2nd St.Petersburg 16 Nov 1856 Ct
Grigori Strogonov (18 Jun 1824-13 Mar 1879)
3f) Olga (St.Petersburg 11 Sep
1822-Friedrichshafen 30 Oct 1892); m.Peterhof 13 Jul 1846 King Karl I of
Württemberg (Stuttgart 6 Mar 1823-Stuttgart 6 Oct 1891)
4f) Alexandra (St.Petersburg 24
Jun 1825-Tsarskoie-Selo 10 Aug 1844); m.St.Petersburg 28 Jan 1844 Friedrich
Wilhelm, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (Kassel 26 Nov 1820-Frankfurt 14 Oct 1884)
5f) Constantine (St.Petersburg
21 Sep 1827-Pavlovsk 29 Jan 1892); m.St.Petersburg 11 Sep 1848 Alexandra Pss of
Saxe-Altenburg (Altenburg 8 Jul 1830-St.Petersburg 6 Jul 1911)
1g) Nicholas (St.Petersburg 14
Feb 1850-Tashkent 14 Jan 1918); m.Orenburg, Russia 1882 Nadezhda Drier [Dreyer]
(1861-1929)
1h)
Pr Artemy Iskander (Tashkent 1883-k.in Russian Civil War 1919)
2h)
Pr Alexander Iskander (Tashkent 15 Nov 1889-Grasse 26 Jan 1957); m.1st
5 May 1912 (div) Olga Rogovskya (b.1893, disappeared in USSR); m.2nd
Paris 11 Oct 1930 Natalia Khanykova (St.Petersburg 30 Dec 1893-Nice 20 Apr
1982)
1i)
Pr Cyril Iskander (Tashkent 5 Dec 1914-Moscow 1992)
2i)
Pss Natalia Iskander (Tashkent 21 Jan 1917-Moscow 24 Jul 1999); m.Nikolai
Dostal (1909-1949)
2g) Olga (Pavlovsk 3 Sep
1851-Pau 18 Jun 1926); m.St.Petersburg 27 Oct 1867 King George I of the
Hellenes (Copenhagen 24 Dec 1845-Salonika 18 Mar 1913)
3g) Vera (St.Petersburg 16 Feb
1854-Stuttgart 11 Apr 1912); m.Stuttgart 8 May 1874 Eugen, Duke of Württemberg
(Bückeburg 20 Aug 1846-Düsseldorf 27 Jan 1877)
4g) Constantine (Strelna 22 Aug
1858-Pavlovsk 15 Jun 1915); m.St.Petersburg 27 Apr 1884 Elisabeth Pss of
Saxe-Altenburg (Meiningen 25 Jan 1865-Leipzig 24 Mar 1927)
1h) Ivan (Pavlovsk 5 Jul
1886-executed at Alapaevsk 17/18 Jul 1918); m.Peterhof 3 Sep 1911 Helena Pss of
Serbia (Rijeka, Serbia 4 Nov 1884-Nice 16 Oct 1962)
1i) Vsevelod (Marble Palace,
St.Petersburg 20 Jan 1914-London 18 Jun 1973); m.1st London 31 May
1939 (div 1956) Lady Mary Lygon (Madresfield Court 12 Feb 1910-Faringdon 27 Sep
1982); m.2nd London 28 Mar 1956 (div 1961) Emilia Gfn Berchtold, née
de Gosztonyi (Budapest 19 Apr 1914-Monte Carlo 9 Jul 1993); m.3rd
London 8 Jun 1961 Valli Knust (London 4 Apr 1930-The Old Vicarage, Leigh,
Dorset 10 Jul 2012)
2i) Catherine (Pavlovsk 25 Jul
1915-Montevideo 13 Mar 2007); m.Rome 15 Sep 1937 (separated 1945) Ruggero,
Marchese Farace di Villaforesta (London 4 Aug 1909-Rome 14 Sep 1970)
2h) Gabriel (Pavlovsk 15 Jul
1887-Paris 28 Feb 1955); m.1st St.Petersburg 9 Apr 1917 Antonia
Nesterovskya (St.Petersburg 14 Mar 1890-Paris 7 Mar 1950); m.2nd
Paris 11 May 1951 Pss Irina Kurakina (Andreievskoye 22 Sep 1903-Chelles 17 Jan
1993)
3h) Tatiana (St.Petersburg 23
Jan 1890-Jerusalem 28 Aug 1979); m.1st Pavlovsk 24 Aug 1911 Pr
Constantine Bagration-Moukhransky (Tiflis 2 Mar 1889-k.a.Jaroslav, nr Lvov 19
May 1915); m.2nd Geneva 9 Nov 1921 Alexander Korochenzov (17 Aug
1877-Lausanne 6 Feb 1922)
4h) Constantine (St.Petersburg
1 Jan 1891-executed at Alapaevsk 17/18 Jul 1918)
5h) Oleg (St.Petersburg 27 Nov
1892-d.Vitebsk Hospital, Vilno, 12 Oct 1914 of wounds received in action)
6h) Igor (St.Petersburg 10 Jun
1894-executed Alapaevsk 17/18 Jul 1918)
7h) George (St.Petersburg 6 May
1903-New York City 7 Nov 1938)
8h) Natalia (St.Petersburg 23
Mar 1905-St.Petersburg 23 May 1905)
9h) Vera (Pavlovsk 24 Apr
1906-New York 11 Jan 2001)
5g) Dimitri (St.Petersburg 13
Jun 1860-executed at Fortress of SS.Peter and Paul, St.Petersburg 30 Jan 1919)
6g) Viatcheslav (St.Petersburg
13 Jul 1862-St.Petersburg 27 Feb 1879)
6f) Nicholas (Tsarskoie-Selo 8
Aug 1831-Alupka, Crimea 25 Apr 1891); m.St.Petersburg 6 Feb 1856 Alexandra, Dss
of Oldenburg (St.Petersburg 2 Jun 1838-Kiev 25 Apr 1900)
1g) Nicholas (St.Petersburg 18
Nov 1856-Cap d'Antibes 5 Jan 1929); m.Yalta 29 Apr 1907 Anastasia Pss of
Montenegro (Cetinje 4 Jan 1868-Cap d'Antibes 25 Jan 1929)
2g) Peter (St.Petersburg 22 Jan
1864-Cap d'Antibes 17 Jun 1931); m.Peterhof 26 Jul 1889 Militza Pss of
Montenegro (Cetinje 26 Jul 1866-Alexandria, Egypt 5 Sep 1951)
1h) Marina (Nice 11 Mar
1892-Six-Fours-les-Plages 15 May 1981); m.Cap d'Antibes 2 Feb 1927 (rel) 4 Feb
1927 Pr Alexander Galitzine (St.Petersburg 13 Oct 1885-La Bastide-Galitzine,
Toulon 24 Mar 1974)
2h) Roman (Peterhof 17 Oct
1896-Rome 23 Oct 1978); m.Cap d'Antibes 15 Nov 1921 (rel?) 16 Nov 1921 Css
Prascovia Cheremeteva (Poltava 18 Oct 1901-Rome 21 Dec 1980)
1i)
Pr Nicholas Romanov (Cap d'Antibes 13 Sep 1922-15 Sep 2014); m.Florence 31 Dec
1951 (rel) Russian Cathedral, Cannes 21 Jan 1952 Css Sveva della Gherardesca
(b.Florence 15 Jul 1930)
1j)
Pss Natalia Romanov (b.1952); m.San Vincenzo 30 Apr 1973 Giuseppe Consolo
(b.1948)
2j)
Pss Elizabeth Romanov (b.1956); m.Las Vegas 14 May 1982 Mauro Bonacini (b.1950)
3j)
Pss Tatiana Romanov (b.1961); m.1st 1983 (div 1988) Giambattista
Alessandri; m.2nd San Giovanni di Marignano 29 Aug 1998 Giancarlo
Tirotti (b.1947)
2i)
Pr Dmitri Romanov (Cap d'Antibes 17 May 1926-Denmark 31 Dec 2016); m.1st
Copenhagen 21 Jan 1959 Johanna von Kauffmann (Copenhagen 1 Jun 1936-Copenhagen
13 May 1989); m.2nd Bogoyavlensky, Kostromo, Russia 28 Jul 1993
Dorrit Reventlow (b.Récife, Brazil 22 Apr 1942)
3h) Nadezhda (Dulber, Crimea 3
Mar 1898-Chantilly 21 Apr 1988); m.Haraks, Crimea 10 Apr 1917 (div 1940) Pr
Nicholas Orlov (St.Petersburg 12 Mar 1896-New York City 30 May 1961)
4h) Sophia (b.and d.Dulber 3
Mar 1898)
7f) Michael (Peterhof 25 Oct
1832-Cannes 18 Dec 1909); m.St.Petersburg 28 Aug 1857 Cecile (who took the name
Olga Feodorovna) Pss of Baden (Karlsruhe 20 Sep 1839-Kharkov 12 Apr 1891)
1g) Nicholas (Tsarskoie-Selo 26
Apr 1859-executed at Fortress of SS. Peter and Paul 30 Jan 1919)
2g) Anastasia (Peterhof 28 Jul
1860-Eze, nr Nice 11 Mar 1922); m.St.Petersburg 24 Jan 1879 Friedrich Franz
3g) Michael (Peterhof 16 Oct
1861-London 26 Apr 1929); m.San Remo 26 Feb 1891 Sophie Gfn von Merenberg, cr
Css von Torby 1891 (Geneva 1 Jun 1868-London 14 Sep 1927)
1h)
Css Anastasia de Torby (Wiesbaden 9 Sep 1892-London 7 Dec 1977); m.London 20
Jul 1917 Sir Harold Wernher, Bt (London 16 Jan 1893-Luton Hoo 30 Jun 1973)
2h)
Css Nadejda de Torby (Cannes 28 Mar 1896-Cannes 22 Jan 1963); m.London 15 Nov
1916 George, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, born Pr von Battenberg
(Darmstadt 6 Nov 1892-London 8 Apr 1938)
3h)
Ct Michael de Torby (Wiesbaden 8 Oct 1898-Roehampton 8 May 1959)
4g) George (Bielyi-Klioutch 23
Aug 1863-executed at Fortress of SS. Peter and Paul 30 Jan 1919); m.Corfu 12
May 1900 Marie Pss of Greece and Denmark (Athens 3 Mar 1876-Athens 14 Dec 1940)
1h) Nina (Mikhailovskoie, nr
Peterhof 20 Jun 1901-Hyannis, Massachusetts 27 Feb 1974); m.London 3 Sep 1922
Pr Paul Chavchavadse (St.Petersburg 27 Jun 1899-Hyannis 12 Jul 1971)
2h) Xenia (Mikhailovskoie 22
Aug 1903-Glen Cove, Long Island NY 17 Sep 1965); m.1st Paris 8 Oct
1921 (rel) 9 Oct 1921 (div 1930) William Bateman Leeds (New York City 19 Sep
1902-St.Thomas, Virgin Islands 31 Dec 1971); m.2nd Glen Cove, NY 10
Aug 1946 Herman Jud (Hicksville, Long Island 14 Feb 1911-Harrisonburg, Virginia
22 Aug 1987)
5g) Alexander (Tiflis 13 Apr
1866-Roquebrune 26 Feb 1933); m.Peterhof 6 Aug 1894 Xenia, Grand Duchess of
Russia (1875-1960; above)
1h) Irina (Peterhof 15 Jul
1895-Paris 26 Feb 1970); m.St.Petersburg 22 Feb 1914 Pr Felix Yusupov
(St.Petersburg 24 Mar 1887-Paris 27 Sep 1967)
2h) Pr Andrew (St.Petersburg 24
Jan 1897-Provender, Kent 8 May 1981); m.1st Yalta 12 Jun 1918 Donna
Elisabetha Ruffo (Snamenskoie 26 Dec 1886-Wilderness House, Hampton Court 29
Oct 1940), widow of Alexander von Friederici; m.2nd Norton, Kent 21 Sep
1942 Nadine Sylvia Ada McDougall (Lynsted, Kent 5 Jun 1908-Provender,
Faversham, Kent 6 Jun 2000)
1i)
Pss Xenia Romanov (Paris 10 Mar 1919-Saint Cernin 22 Oct 2000); m.1st
London 17 Jun 1945 (div 1954) Calhoun Ancrum (Philippines 28 Apr 1915-Charlestown,
Massachusetts 21 Feb 1990); m.2nd Teheran 7 Apr 1958 Geoffrey Tooth
(London 1 Sep 1908-Plazac, Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin 18 Feb 1998)
2i)
Pr Michael Romanov (Versailles 15 Jul 1920-Australia 21 Sep 2008); m.1st
Sydney, Australia 24 Feb 1953 (div 1953) Esther Murphy (Horsham, Australia 21
Oct 1921-1 Aug 2006); m.2nd Sydney 23 Jul 1954 Shirley Crammond
(Brisbane 4 Mar 1916-Sydney 20 Jun 1983); m.3rd Sydney 14 Jul 1993
Giulia Gemma Crespi (b.Milan 7 Mar 1930)
3i)
Pr Andrew Romanov (London 21 Jan 1923-28 Nov 2021); m.1st
1j)
Pr Alexis Romanov (b.1953); m.Oakland, California 19 Sep 1987 Zoetta Leisy
(b.1956)
2j)
Pr Peter Romanov (b.1961); m.Inverness CA 9 May 2009 Barbara Jurgens (b.1968)
3j)
Pr Andrew Romanov (b.1963); m.Point Reyes Station CA 12 Jun 1989 Elisabeth
Flores (b.1964)
1k)
Pss Natasha Romanov (b.1993)
4i)
Pss Olga Romanov (b.1950); m.London 1 Oct 1975 Thomas Mathew (b.1945)
3h) Feodor (St.Petersburg 23
Dec 1898-Ascain, France 30 Nov 1968); m.Paris 31 May 1923 (rel) 3 Jun 1923 (div
1936) Pss Irina Paley (1903-1990; above)
1i)
Pr Michael Romanov (Paris 4 May 1924-Paris 22 Sep 2008); m.1st Paris
15 Oct 1958 (div 1992) Helga Staufenberger (b.Vienna 22 Aug1926); m.2nd
Josse 15 Jan 1994 Maria de las Mercedes Ustrell-Cabani (b.Hospitalet, Spain 26
Aug 1960)
1j)
Pr Michael Romanov (Paris 31 Jul 1959-Mumbai, India 24 Jan 2001)
1k)
Tatiana
2i)
Pss Irene Romanov (b.Fontenay 7 May 1934); m.1st Biarritz 23 Dec
1955 (div 1959) Andre Jean Pelle (Biarritz 29 Nov 1923-Biarritz 7 Oct 1998);
m.2nd Le Pin 26 Dec 1962 (div) Victor-Marcel Soulas
(b.St.Méen-le-Grand 26 Aug 1938)
4h) Nikita (St.Petersburg 16
Jan 1900-Cannes 12 Sep 1974); m.Paris 18 Feb 1922 (rel) 19 Feb 1922 Css Maria
Vorontzova-Daschkova (Tsarskoie-Selo 13 Feb 1903-Cannes 15 Jun 1997)
1i)
Pr Nikita Romanov (London 13 May 1923-New York 3 May 2007); m.London 14 Jul
1961 Janet Schonwald (Oklahoma City 24 Apr 1933-Cairo 28 Jan 2017)
1j)
Pr Theodore Romanov (New York City 30 Nov 1974-25 Aug 2007)
2i)
Pr Alexander Romanov (Paris 4 Nov 1929-London 22 Sep 2002); m.Cannes 18 Jul
1971 Maria Valguarnera di Niscemi (b.Palermo 29 Nov 1931)
5h) Dimitri (Gatschina 15 Aug
1901-London 7 Jul 1980); m.1st
1i)
Pss Nadeshda Romanov (Boulogne 4 Jul 1933-Vancouver 17 Sep 2002); m.1st
London 20 Dec 1952 (div 1976) Anthony Brian Allen (Connah's Quay, Wales 6 May
1931-Victoria BC 2 Apr 2015); m.2nd William Thomas Hall Clark
(Montreal 17 Mar 1924-Victoria, BC 16 Feb 1995)
6h) Pr Rostislav (Ai-Todor,
Crimea 24 Nov 1902-Cannes 31 Jul 1978); m.1st Chicago, Illinois 1/14
Sep 1928 (div 1944) Pss Alexandra Galitzine (Maryino, Russia 7 May 1905-Lake
Forest, Illinois 5 Dec 2006); m.2nd Chicago 20 Nov 1944 (div 1951)
Alice Eilken (Chicago 30 May 1923-Skokie, Illinois 21 Oct 1996); m.3rd
London 19 Nov 1954 Hedwig von Chappuis (Nabelschwedt, Silesia 6 Dec 1905-Grasse
9 Jan 1997)
1i)
Pr Rostislav Romanov (Chicago 3 Dec 1938-London 7 Jan 1999); m.1st
Winnetka 9 Sep 1960 (div 1980) Stephena Verdel Cook (b.Maracaibo, Venezuela 15
Dec 1938); m.2nd Lake Forest, Illinois 16 Aug 1980 [12 Aug 1980?]
Christia Ipsen (b.Rockford, Illinois 3 Apr 1949)
1j)
Pss Stephena Romanov (b.1963); m.Lake Bluff, Illinois 23 Dec 1988 William
Porter Boggess [or Boggis],
2j)
Pss Alexandra Romanov (b.1983); m.2020 Edward George William Heard (b.1983)
3j)
Pr Rostislav Romanov (
1k)
Rostislav Georgante
4j)
Pr Nikita Romanov (b.1987)
2i)
Pr Nicholas Romanov (Chicago 9 Sep 1945-Las Vegas 9 Nov 2000); m.1st
1966 (div) Pamela Kuzinowski (b.1944); m.2nd Lynn N
1j)
Pr Nicolas Christopher Romanov (b.1968); m.1st 1995 Lisa Marie
Flowa; m.2nd (div) Sheryl Buffet
1k)
Pr Cory Christopher Romanov (Arlington Heights, Illinois 5 Dec 1994-6 Jan 1998)
2k)
Karlyn
3k)
Chelle
2j)
Pr Daniel Joseph Romanov (b.1972); m.Soo Kim
1k)
2k)
Jackson Daniel
3j)
Pss Heather Noelle Romanov (b.1976); m.14 Jul 2006 Joseph Munao (b.1976)
7h) Vassili (Gatschina 7 Jul 1907-Woodside,
California 23 Jun 1989); m.New
1i)
Pss Marina Romanov (b.San Francisco 22 May 1940); m.Woodside CA 8 Jan 1967
(div) William Beadleston (b.Long Branch, New Jersey 31 Jul 1938)
6g) Sergei (Borjom, Georgia 7
Oct 1869-executed at Alapaievsk 17/18 Jul 1918)
7g) Alexis (Tiflis 28 Dec
1875-San Remo 1 Mar 1895)
10e) Michael (St.Petersburg 8
Feb 1798-Warsaw 9 Sep 1849); m.St.Petersburg 19 Feb 1824 Charlotte Pss of
Württemberg (Stuttgart 9 Jan 1807-Stuttgart 21 Jan 1873)
1f) Marie (Moscow 9 Mar
1825-Vienna 19 Nov 1846)
2f) Elizabeth (St.Petersburg 26
May 1826-Wiesbaden 28 Jan 1845); m.St.Petersburg 31 Jan 1844 Adolf, Duke of
Nassau [later, Grand Duke of Luxemburg] (Biebrich 24 Jul 1817-Schloß Hohenburg
17 Nov 1905)
3f) Catherine (St.Petersburg 28
Aug 1827-St.Petersburg 12 May 1894); m.St.Petersburg 16 Feb 1851 Georg, Duke of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Neustrelitz 11 Jan 1824-St.Petersburg 20 Jun 1876)
4f) Alexandra (Moscow 28 Jan
1831-Moscow 27 Mar 1832)
5f) Anne (Moscow 27 Oct
1834-St.Petersburg 22 Mar 1836)
2d) Anna (St.Petersburg 20 Dec
1757-Peterhof 19 Mar 1759)
7b) ELISABETH, Empress and Autocrat
of all the Russias 7 Dec 1741 (Kolomenskoe 29 Dec 1709-St.Petersburg 5 Jan
1762); she is alleged by some to have m.ca 1742 Ct Alexei Razumovsky (Lemeshi,
Ukraine 17 Mar 1709-St.Petersburg 17 Jul 1771)
8b) Natalia (20 Mar 1713-27 May
1715)
9b) Margarita (19 Sep 1714-7 Jun
1715)
10b) Peter 15 Nov 1715-19 Apr
1719)
11b) Paul (Wesel 13 Jan
1717-Wesel 14 Jan 1717)
12b) Natalia (31 Aug 1718-15 Mar
1725)
13b) Peter, d.7 Oct 1723
14a) Feodora (Moscow 1673-Moscow 1677)
15a) Natalia (1674-28 Jun 1716)