Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia

Infobox Russian Royalty|prince
name = Feodor Alexandrovich
title =Prince Feodor 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 Irina Pavlovna Paley
issue =Prince Michael Feodorovich
Princess Irene Feodorovich
date of birth = Birth date|1898|12|23
place of birth = Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
date of death =Death date and age|1968|11|30|1898|12|23
place of death = Cannes, France
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Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia (December 23, 1898 in Saint Petersburg, Russia - November 30, 1968 in Ascain, France) was a son of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. He was a nephew of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia

Early life

Prince Feodor Alexandrovich Romanov was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia on December 23, 1898. He was the second son and third child among seven siblings. Although a grandson of Emperor Alexander III through his mother, he was not entitled to the title Grand Duke of Russia because he was only a great-grandson of Emperor Nicholas I in the male line through his father. He spend his early years in the south of France and Imperial Russia.

During the Russian Revolution Prince Feodor was imprisoned along with his parents and grandmother the Dowager Empress at Dulber, in the Crimea. He escaped the fate of a number of his Romanov cousins who were murdered by the Bolsheviks when he was freed by German troops in 1918. He escaped from Russia on April 11, 1919 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 Feodor lived in Paris in the house of his sister Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia.

Marriage

Prince Feodor married in Paris on May 21 1923, Princess Irina Paley (1903 -1990), a distant cousin. She was a daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia and his morganatic wife Princess Olga Paley. They divorced in 1936. he spent many years afflicted with tuberculosis. His ex-wife and his sister helped with the medical bills.From his marriage he had children:

* Prince Michael Romanov (Paris 4 May 1924-22 September 2008); married 1st Paris 15 Oct 1958 (divorced 1992) Helga Staufenberger (born Vienna 22 Aug1926); m.2d Josse 15 Jan 1994 Maria de las Mercedes Ustrell-Cabani (b.Hospitalet, Spain 26 Aug 1960) Michael died on the same day as his cousin, Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia.

*Princess Irene Romanov (born May 7, 1934 in Fontenay, France); married 1st Biarritz 23 Dec 1955 (divorced 1959) Andre Jean Pelle (born Biarritz 29 Nov 1923); married 2d Le Pin 26 Dec 1962 (divorced) Victor-Marcel Soulas (born St.Méen-le-Grand 26 Aug 1938).

References

*Van Der Kiste, John & Hall Coryne . "Once a Grand Duchess: Xenia, Sister of Nicholas II", Sutton Publishing, 2002. ISBN 0750927496.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Prince Feodor 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