Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia

Infobox Russian Royalty|prince
name = Rostislav Alexandrovich
title =Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia


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imperial house = House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
father =Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia
mother =Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia
spouse = Princess Alexandra Pavlovna Galitzine
Alice Eilken
Hedwig Maria Gertrud Eva von Chappuis
issue = Prince Rostislav Rostislavovich
Prince Nicholas Rostislavovich
date of birth = Birth date|1902|11|02
place of birth = Ai-Todor, Crimea, Russian Empire
date of death = Death date and age|1978|07|31|1902|11|02
place of death = Cannes, France
place of burial=|

Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia (November 2, 1902 - July 31, 1978) was a member of the Russian nobility of the House of Romanov.

Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich was the son of HIH the Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich ‘Sandro’ (1866-1933) and HIH the Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna (1875-1960). His parents were 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.

When Emperor Nicholas II abdicated the Russian monarchy in March 1917, the Emperor's mother gathered a large number of relatives including Prince Rostislav in the Crimea. In 1918, many were detained at near Yalta, but a month later were freed by the Germans after the signing of the Treaty of Brest Litovsk. In 1919, a group including the Prince was rescued by the British battleship, HMS Marlborough, sent by King George V. [ [http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ImperialRussian/royalty/russia/survivor.html Royal Russia - The fate of the Romanovs: The Survivors] ] and taken to Malta were they spent nine months. [ [http://website.lineone.net/~stephaniebidmead/russian_refugees.htm Russian Refugees] ]

Family

Rostislav was married three times. He married first Princess Alexandra Pavlovna Galitzine (7 May 1905-5 December 2006) on 1 September 1928 in Chicago. They had one child before divorcing in 1944.
*Prince Rostislav Rostislavovich Romanov (3 December 1938 - 7 January 1999).

Rostislav married Alice Eilken (b. 30 May 1923) on 7 May 1945. The couple had one child before they divorced on 11 April 1951.
*Prince Nicholas Rostislavovich Romanov (9 September 1945 - 9 November 2000) he owned of a direct mail business. [ [http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2000/Nov-11-Sat-2000/news/14801093.html Deaths] ]

Rostislav married Hedwig Maria Gertrud Eva von Chappuis (6 December 1905 - 9 January 1997) on 19 November 1954. No children were born of this marriage.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia
2= 2. Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia
3= 3. Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia
4= 4. Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia
5= 5. Princess Cecilie of Baden
6= 6. Alexander III of Russia
7= 7. Princess Dagmar of Denmark
8= 8. Nicholas I of Russia
9= 9. Princess Charlotte of Prussia
10= 10. Leopold I, Grand Duke of Baden
11= 11. Princess Sofia of Sweden
12= 12. Alexander II of Russia
13= 13. Princess Marie of Hesse
14= 14. Christian IX of Denmark
15= 15. Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
16= 16. Paul I of Russia
17= 17. Princess Sophia Dorothea of Wuerttemberg
18= 18. Frederick William III of Prussia
19= 19. Princess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
20= 20. Karl Friedrich of Baden
21= 21. Luise Karoline Geyer von Geyersberg
22= 22. Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
23= 23. Princess Frederica of Baden
24= 24. Nicholas I of Russia
25= 25. Princess Charlotte of Prussia
26= 26. Ludwig II, Grand Duke of Hesse
27= 27. Wilhelmina, Grand Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt
28= 28. Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
29= 29. Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse
30= 30. Prince William of Hesse
31= 31. Princess Charlotte of Denmark

References

* [http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/russia.html Online Gotha]