Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna Of Russia
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Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (russian: Анастасия Михайловна; 28 July 1860 – 11 March 1922) was by birth member of the
House of Romanov The House of Romanov (also transcribed Romanoff; rus, Романовы, Románovy, rɐˈmanəvɨ) was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917. They achieved prominence after the Tsarina, Anastasia Romanova, was married to th ...
and a Grand Duchess of Russia and by marriage Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.


Early life

Anastasia was born as the only daughter and second child of
Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (25 October 1832 – 18 December 1909) was the fourth son and seventh child of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia. He was the first owner of the New Michael Palace on the Palace Quay in ...
and his wife Princess Cecilie of Baden. Paternally, she was a granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia.


Biography

She was raised in the Caucasus, where she lived between 1862 and 1878 with her family. In 1879 she married Friedrich Franz III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who in 1883 became the reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The couple had three children, but her husband was plagued by ill health and they spent most of the year living abroad. The Grand Duchess never became used to her new country where she was unpopular. After the death of her husband in 1897, her visits to Schwerin were sparse. A strong-willed, independent and unconventional woman, she caused a royal scandal when in 1902 she had a child fathered by her personal secretary. In her widowhood, she lived most of the year in the South of France. During
World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, she decided to settle in neutral
Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
, living in
Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR-74), ...
. She died following a stroke a few years later.


Issue

Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna and her husband,
Friedrich Franz III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Frederick Francis III (german: Friedrich Franz Paul Nikolaus Ernst Heinrich; 19 March 1851 – 10 April 1897) was the penultimate Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Biography He was born in Schloss Ludwigslust as the son of Frederick Francis II, ...
, had three children: * Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (24 December 1879 – 28 December 1952), who married
King Christian X of Denmark Christian X ( da, Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm; 26 September 1870 – 20 April 1947) was King of Denmark from 1912 to his death in 1947, and the only King of Iceland as Kristján X, in the form of a personal union rathe ...
on 26 April 1898. They had two sons. *
Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Frederick Francis IV (Friedrich Franz Michael; 9 April 1882 – 17 November 1945) was the last Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and regent of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He inherited the throne when he was fifteen years old in 1897 and was forced t ...
(9 April 1882 – 17 November 1945), who married Princess Alexandra of Hanover on 7 June 1904. They had five children. *
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Duchess Cecilie Auguste Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (20 September 1886 – 6 May 1954) was the last German Crown Princess and Crown Princess of Prussia as the wife of Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, the son of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Cecili ...
(20 September 1886 – 6 May 1954), who married
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Crown Prince of Prussia (Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst; 6 May 1882 – 20 July 1951) was the eldest child of the last ''Kaiser ''Kaiser'' is the German word for "emperor" (female Kaiserin). In gen ...
on 6 June 1905. They have had six children. Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna also had an illegitimate son with Vladimir Alexandrovich Paltov (1874 – 1944): *Alexis Louis de Wenden (23 December 1902 – 7 July 1976), who married Paulette Seux on 25 January 1929. They had two daughters: Xénia Anastasie Germaine Louis de Wenden (born 1930, who married Alain Brulé), and Anastasie Alexandrine Paule Louis de Wenden (1935–1995).


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Bibliography

* Alexander, Grand Duke of Russia. ''Once a Grand Duke''. Cassell, London, 1932. * Beéche, Arturo. ''The Grand Duchesses''. Eurohistory, 2004. * Domin, Marie-Agnes. ''Anastasia Mikailovna Romanova'', Editions Atlantica, 2002. . * Cockfield, Jamie H. ''White Crow''. Praeger, 2002. * Mateos Sainz de Medrano. Ricardo. ''A Child of The Caucasus''. Royalty Digest, Vol 3, N 1. July 1993. * Michael, Prince of Greece. ''Jewels of the Tsars''. The Vedome Press, 2006.
Yussupov, Felix. ''Lost Splendor'', 1952
* Zeepvat, Charlotte. ''The Camera and the Tsars''. Sutton Publishing, 2004, . * Zeepvat, Charlotte. ''The other Anastasia: A woman who loved and who lived''. Royalty Digest Quarterly. N2 2006. ISSN 1653-5219.


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