Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia

Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia

(1838-1900).

He was born in Saint Petersburg. As was the custom for Russian Grand Dukes (the title applied to all sons and grandsons of a Russian Emperor), the Grand Duke Peter served in the Russian army as a Lt.-General and Adjutant-General.

On July 26, 1889, he married Princess Milica of Montenegro (1866-1951), daughter of King Nicholas I of Montenegro (1841-1921). The Grand Duke and Duchess had four children:

*Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia (28 February 1892 - 15 May 1981)
*Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (17 October 1896 - 23 October 1978)
*Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia (3 March 1898 - 21 April 1988)
*Princess Sofia Petrovna of Russia (3 March 1898 - 3 March 1898); buried in the convent cemetery in Kiev by her grandmother, Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna, who was a nun there

In 1907, his elder brother Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (1856-1929) married Grand Duchess Militza's sister Princess Anastasia of Montenegro (1868-1935), known as Stana. The two couples were socially very influential at the Russian imperial court in the early 20th century. Nicknamed joined "the black peril", a group interested in the occult. They are credited with introducing first a charlatan mystic named merely Philippe, and then, with graver consequences, Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916) to the Imperial family. Prince Felix Yussupov (1887-1967) — who was their neighbour in Koreiz — once described Znamenka, the Grand Duke and Duchesses palace as "the central point of the powers of evil". This was later to be a widely held belief within the higher echelons of the divided Russian court. The Dowager Empress Marie (1847-1928) firmly believed that the couple plotted with Rasputin and others to gain influence and favours through the neurotic Empress Alexandra (1872-1918). However, by 1914, Alexandra herself referred to them as "the black family" and felt herself to be manipulated by them.

The couple escaped the Russian Revolution to the south of France. Here Grand Duke Peter Nicholaievich died at Cap d'Antibes, near Antibes on 17 June, 1931. His wife died in Alexandria, Egypt in September 1951.

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