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Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (russian: Ксения Александровна Романова; – 20 April 1960) was the elder daughter and fourth child of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia ...

. He was a nephew of

Tsar Nicholas II Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; spelled in pre-revolutionary script. ( 186817 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer,. was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Polan ...

, Russia's last tsar.

Russian prince

Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich was the sixth child and fifth son of HIH the Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich ‘Sandro’ (1866–1933) and HIH the

(1875–1960). His parents were paternal first cousins once removed. Consequently, Prince Rostislav was the great-grandson of Tsar Nicholas I (from his father's side), also the great-great-grandson of the same Tsar Nicholas I (from his mother's one), the grandson of Tsar Alexander III and the nephew of Tsar

Nicholas II Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; spelled in pre-revolutionary script. ( 186817 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer,. was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Pola ...

. Prince Rostislav was the favorite cousin of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. During the Russian Revolution Prince Rostislav was imprisoned along with his parents and grandmother the Dowager Empress at Dulber, in the

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. He escaped the fate of a number of his Romanov cousins who were murdered by the

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when he was freed by

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troops in 1918. He left Russia in 1919 aboard the

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ship for

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, where they spent nine months before moving to

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and later settling in

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Family

Rostislav was married three times. He married first Princess Alexandra Pavlovna

Galitzine The House of Golitsyn or Galitzine was one of the largest princely of the noble houses in the Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire. Among them were boyars, warlords, diplomats, generals (the Mikhailovichs), stewards, chamberlains, the richest m ...

(7 May 1905 – 5 December 2006) on 1 September 1928 in

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. They had one child before divorcing in 1944. She remarried to Lester Armour. *

Prince Rostislav Rostislavovich (1938–1999) A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The ...

married firstly with Stephena Verdel Cook with whom he had a daughther: Princess Stephena (b. 1963). Secondly with Christia Ipsen, with whom he had three children: Princess Alexandra (b. 1983), Prince Rostislav Rostislavovich (b. 1985) and Prince Nikita (b. 1987). Rostislav married Alice Eilken (30 May 1923 – 21 October 1996) on 24 November 1944. The couple had one child before they divorced on 11 April 1951. *Prince Nicholas Rostislavovich (9 September 1945 – 9 November 2000) the owner of a direct mail business. Rostislav married Hedwig Maria Gertrud Eva von

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(6 December 1905 – 9 January 1997) on 19 November 1954. No children were born of this marriage. It is often alleged that Rostislav's marriage with Princess Alexandra Galitzina would have been morganatic. However, holds that it was as acceptable dynastically as the Bagrationi marriage of Vasili's cousin,

Vladimir Kirillovich Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (russian: Владимир Кириллович Романов; 21 April 1992) was the Head of the Imperial Family of Russia, a position which he claimed from 1938 to his death. Early life Vladimir was bo ...

. Since the extinction of the

Korecki family The House of Korecki (Polish: ród Koreckich (Korecki clan), Koreccy) was a princely family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania origin. The name is derived from the original seat of the family at the Korets Castle, which was part of the Grand Duch ...

in the 17th century, the Golitsyns alitzinhave claimed dynastic seniority in the

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. The Gediminids were a dynasty of monarchs of

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that reigned from the 14th to the 16th century and Emperor Peter I had permitted the Golitsyns to incorporate the emblem of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania into their coat of arms. His first wife, Princess Alexandra, as a member of the House of Galitzine, descended from

Sophia Palaiologina Zoe Palaiologina ( grc-x-byzant, Ζωή Παλαιολογίνα), whose name was later changed to Sophia Palaiologina (russian: София Фоминична Палеолог; ca. 1449 – 7 April 1503), was a Byzantine princess, member of ...

and

Ivan III of Russia Ivan III Vasilyevich (russian: Иван III Васильевич; 22 January 1440 – 27 October 1505), also known as Ivan the Great, was a Grand Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of all Rus'. Ivan served as the co-ruler and regent for his blin ...

.All living members of the House of Galitzine are descendants of Sophia Palaiologina and Ivan III, this genealogy is cited on source number 4 and the Russian Wikipedia
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Princess Alexandra was a direct descendant of sisters Anastasia Romanova, the wife of Prince Boris Mikhailovich Lykov-Obolenskiy, one of the

Seven Boyars The Seven Boyars (russian: link=no, Семибоярщина, the Russian term indicating "Rule of the Seven Boyars" or "the Deeds of the Seven Boyars") were a group of Russian nobles who deposed Tsar Vasily Shuisky on 17 July 1610 and, later that ...

of 1610, and Marfa Romanova, the wife of Prince Boris Keybulatovich Tcherkasskiy. Anastasia and Marfa were the daughters of

Nikita Romanovich Nikita Romanovich (russian: Никита Романович; born c. 1522 – 23 April 1586), also known as Nikita Romanovich Zakharyin-Yuriev, was a prominent boyar of the Tsardom of Russia. His grandson Michael I (Tsar 1613-1645) founded ...

(russian: Никита Романович; born c. 1522 – 23 April 1586), also known as Nikita Romanovich Zakharyin-Yuriev, who was a prominent

boyar A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the Feudalism, feudal nobility in many Eastern European states, including Kievan Rus', Bulgarian Empire, Bulgaria, Russian nobility, Russia, Boyars of Moldavia and Wallachia, Wallachia and ...

of the

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. His grandson

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(Tsar 1613-1645) founded the

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of Russian

tsar Tsar ( or ), also spelled ''czar'', ''tzar'', or ''csar'', is a title used by East Slavs, East and South Slavs, South Slavic monarchs. The term is derived from the Latin word ''Caesar (title), caesar'', which was intended to mean "emperor" i ...

s. Anastasia and Marfa were the paternal aunts of

Tsar Tsar ( or ), also spelled ''czar'', ''tzar'', or ''csar'', is a title used by East Slavs, East and South Slavs, South Slavic monarchs. The term is derived from the Latin word ''Caesar (title), caesar'', which was intended to mean "emperor" i ...

Michael I of Russia Michael I (Russian: Михаил Фёдорович Романов, ''Mikhaíl Fyódorovich Románov'') () became the first Russian tsar of the House of Romanov after the Zemskiy Sobor of 1613 elected him to rule the Tsardom of Russia. He w ...

and the paternal nieces of

Tsaritsa Tsarina or tsaritsa (also spelled ''csarina'' or ''csaricsa'', ''tzarina'' or ''tzaritza'', or ''czarina'' or ''czaricza''; bg, царица, tsaritsa; sr, / ; russian: царица, tsaritsa) is the title of a female autocratic ruler (mona ...

Anastasia Romanovna Zakharyina-Yurieva Anastasia Romanovna Zakharyina-Yurieva (1530 – 7 August 1560) was the first spouse of the Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible and the first Russian Tsaritsa. She was the mother of Feodor I, the last lineal Rurikid Tsar of Russia and the great-a ...

of Russia.

Ancestry

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rostislav Alexandrovich Of Russia, Prince Princes of royal blood (Russia) 1902 births 1978 deaths Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United Kingdom