Prince Kirill Alexandrovich Romanovsky-Iskander, or Cyril Iskander Romanov ( rus, князь, Кирилл Александрович Искандер, r=knyaz, Kirill Alexandrovich Iskander) (5 December 1914 – 1992), or simply Prince Iskander, was one of the last two members of the

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to remain alive in

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following the

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Family

He was the son of Prince Romanovsky-Iskander (15 November 1887 N.S. – 26 January 1957), né , and his first wife, Olga Iosifovna Rogowska. He was a grandson of

Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich of Russia (14 February 1850 – 26 January 1918) was the first-born son of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich and Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Russia and a grandson of Nicholas I of Russia. Early lif ...

, the disgraced grandson of Tsar Nicholas I; thus, Kirill was a patrilineal great-great-grandson of Nicholas I. Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaevich's son,

, was

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d to

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in disgrace for stealing his

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's diamonds. Grand Duke Nicholas established a palace in

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and lived in grand style where he sired a son, whom Tsar Alexander III (his great-uncle) granted the title ''Prince Iskander'' (Iskander was the Arabic form of Alexander). This prince, in turn, fathered the Prince Iskander. His

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and of

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Early life

He was born in

, a member of the Constantinovichi branch of the

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. He had a sister,

Princess Natalia Romanovskaya-Iskander Princess Natalia Alexandrovna Romanovskaya-Iskander ( rus, княгиня Наталья Александровна Романовская-Искандер, r=knyaginya, Natalya Aleksandrovna Romanovskaya-Iskander; – 25 July 1999), or simply ...

(1917 - 1999). Their parents, who had been married since 1912, separated, and in 1924 Kirill and his sister moved with their mother to

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(first moved to Plyushchikha Street, later to Arbat), where Olga remarried to Nicholas Androsov. Kirill's stepfather adopted him and his sister, and Prince Iskander was renamed Kirill Nikolaievich Androsov ( rus, Кирилл Николаевич Андросов). His father also remarried, to Natalia Hanykova (30 December 1893 – 20 April 1982), in 1930 in

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Adult life

After the Russian Revolution, Kirill and his sister Natalia were the only two Romanov descendants in the male line in the

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; the rest either left or were killed. They lived their entire lives in the USSR.Interview with Eleonora Dostal-Oruç
(1999-2000's archive) Sabah News 29 January 2000, retrieved 19 June 2011. Upon Kirill's death, the male line of the Constantinovich branch of the Romanov family died out.

Ancestry

References

* * * * C. Arnold McNaughton, The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy, in 3 volumes (London, U.K.: Garnstone Press, 1973) , {{DEFAULTSORT:Romanov, Kirill Alexandrovich Iskander 1914 births 1992 deaths People from Tashkent People from Syr-Darya Oblast Morganatic issue of Romanovs