Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia

Prince Nikita Alexandrovich
Spouse	Countess Maria Vorontsova-Dashkova
Issue
Prince Nikita Nikitich Prince Alexander Nikitich
House	House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
Father	Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia
Mother	Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia
Born	13 January 1900(1900-01-13) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	12 September 1974(1974-09-12) (aged 74) Cannes, France

Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia (13 January 1900 – 12 September 1974) was a descendant of the Russian Imperial Family.

Russian prince

Prince Nikita Alexandrovich was born in Saint Petersburg the son of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. He was a grandson of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and his consort, Empress Maria Fyodorovna of Russia (born Princess Dagmar of Denmark).

During the Russian Revolution Prince Nikita was imprisoned along with his parents and grandmother the Dowager Empress at Dulber, in the Crimea. He escaped from Russia on 11 April 1918 with the help of his great aunt Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (née Princess Alexandra of Denmark), Dowager Empress Maria’s sister. King George V of the United Kingdom sent the British warship HMS Marlborough which brought Feodor's family and other Romanovs from the Crimea over the Black Sea to Malta and then to England.

During his first years in exile Prince Nikita lived in Paris in the house of his sister Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia. He died in 1974 in Cannes.

Family

On 19 February 1922 he married Countess Maria Vorontsova-Dashkova (13 February 1903 in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia – 15 June 1997 in Cannes, France) in Paris, France. Well-known by White Russians in exile for her elegance and grace, the Princess was a direct descendant of several Russian noble families, including Dolgorukov, Naryshkin, and Shuvalov. They had two sons:

• HH Prince Nikita Romanov (13 May 1923 in London, England – 3 May 2007 in New York)
• HH Prince Alexander Romanov (4 November 1929 in Paris, France – 21 September 2002 in London, England).

Title and style

• His Highness Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia

N.B. After the Russian revolution members of the Imperial family tended to drop the territorial designation “of Russia” and use the princely title with the surname Romanov.^[1]

Ancestry

References

1. ^ Almanach de Gotha (186th ed.). 2003. pp. 314. ISBN 0953214249. 

See also

• Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia
• Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna
• Alexander III of Russia

Persondata
Name	Nikita Of Russia
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	13 January 1900
Place of birth	Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Date of death	12 September 1974
Place of death	Cannes, France