Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia
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| Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia | |
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| Born | December 23, 1898 Saint Petersburg |
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| Died | November 30, 1968 (aged 69) Cannes, France) |
| Parents | Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. |
Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia (December 23, 1898 in Saint Petersburg, Russia - November 30, 1968 in Ascain, France) was a son of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. He was a nephew of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
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[edit] Early life
Prince Feodor Alexandrovich Romanov was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia on December 23, 1898. He was the second son and third child among seven siblings. Although a grandson of Emperor Alexander III through his mother, he was not entitled to the title Grand Duke of Russia because he was only a great-grandson of Emperor Nicholas I in the male line through his father. He spend his early years in the south of France and Imperial Russia.
During the Russian Revolution Prince Feodor was imprisoned along with his parents and grandmother the Dowager Empress at Dulber, in the Crimea. He escaped the fate of a number of his Romanov cousins who were murdered by the Bolsheviks when he was freed by German troops in 1918. He escaped from Russia on April 11, 1919 with the help of his great aunt Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (née Princess Alexandra of Denmark), Dowager Empress Maria’s sister. King George V of the United Kingdom sent the British warship HMS Marlborough which brought Feodor's family and other Romanovs from the Crimea over the Black Sea to Malta and then to England.
During his first years in exile Prince Feodor lived in Paris in the house of his sister Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia.
[edit] Marraige
Prince Feodor married in Paris on May 21 1923, Princess Irina Paley (1903 -1990), a distant cousin. She was a daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia and his morganatic wife Princess Olga Paley. They divorced in 1936. he spent many years afflicted with tuberculois. His exwife and his sister helped with the medical bills. From his marriage he had children:
- Prince Michael Romanov (born in Paris 4 May 1924); married 1st Paris 15 Oct 1958 (divorced 1992) Helga Staufenberger (born Vienna 22 Aug1926); m.2d Josse 15 Jan 1994 Maria de las Mercedes Ustrell-Cabani (b.Hospitalet, Spain 26 Aug 1960)
- Princess Irene Romanov (born May 7, 1934 in Fontenay, France); married 1st Biarritz 23 Dec 1955 (divorced 1959) Andre Jean Pelle (born Biarritz 29 Nov 1923); married 2d Le Pin 26 Dec 1962 (divorced) Victor-Marcel Soulas (born St.Méen-le-Grand 26 Aug 1938).
[edit] References
- Van Der Kiste, John & Hall Coryne . Once a Grand Duchess: Xenia, Sister of Nicholas II, Sutton Publishing, 2002. ISBN 0750927496.
