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Early life

Prince Roman Petrovich was born in the Petergof, Peterhof Palace in St. Petersburg the only son of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia and his wife

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. Prince Roman belonged to the Nikolaevichi branch of the Russian Imperial Family which was founded by his grandfather Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich.

Biography

In 1916 having graduated from the Nicholas Engineering Academy of Kiev, Prince Roman was posted to serve in a Caucasian Sappers Regiment on the Turkish front. Following the abdication of Emperor

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, Prince Roman resided at his father's Dulber estate in the

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and in April 1919 he left

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on the British battleship HMS ''Marlborough''. In 1941 he was offered and refused the crown of the newly established Italian puppet state, the

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Marriage and issue

Prince Roman was married on 16 November 1921 at Cap d'Antibes,

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to Countess Praskovia

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a (18 October 1901– 21 December 1980) and they had two sons: * Nicholas Romanovich, Prince of Russia (1922–2014) * Prince Dimitri Romanovich of Russia (1926–2016)

Ancestry

References

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