Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia

Infobox Russian Royalty|prince
name = Dmitri Alexandrovich
title =Prince Dmitri 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 = Countess Marina Sergeievna Golenistcheva-Koutouzova
Sheila MacKellar Chisholm
issue =Princess Nadejda Dimitriievna
date of birth = Birth date|1901|8|15
place of birth = Gatchina Palace, Gatchina, Russian Empire
date of death = Death date and age|1980|07|7|1901|8|15
place of death = London, England, United Kingdom
place of burial=|

Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia (August 15, 1901 - July 7, 1980) was a member of the Russian nobility of the House of Romanov.

Prince Dmitri 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 Dmitri 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 of 1917, the Emperor's mother gathered a large number of relatives including Prince Dmitri and his parents and siblings, 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] ]

Following the creation of the Romanov Family Association in 1979, Prince Dmitri was chosen as its first president serving until his death a year later.

Family

Dmitri was married twice. He married first Countess Marina Sergeievna Golenistcheva-Koutouzova (20 November 1912-1969) on 25 October 1931 in Paris. They had one child before divorcing in 1947.
*Princess Nadejda Romanov (4 July 1939-17 September 2002). Nadejda married Anthony Allen, with whom she had three daughters, Penelope, Marina and Alexandra; after divorcing Allen, she maried William Hall Clark.

Dmitri married secondly to Margaret "Sheila" MacKellar Chisholm (9 September 1898 - 13 October 1969) on 20 October 1954. No children were born of this marriage.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Prince Dmitri 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]