Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia

Prince Vasili Alexandrovich
President of the Romanov Family Association
Tenure7 July 1980 – 24 June 1989
PredecessorPrince Dimitri Alexandrovich
SuccessorPrince Nicholas Romanovich
Born(1907-07-07)7 July 1907
Gatchina Palace, Gatchina, Russian Empire
Died24 June 1989(1989-06-24) (aged 81)
Woodside, California, United States
SpousePrincess Natalia Alexandrovna Golitsyna
IssuePrincess Marina Vasilievna of Russia
HouseHolstein-Gottorp-Romanov
FatherGrand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia
MotherGrand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia

Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia (7 July [O.S. 24 June] 1907 – 24 June 1989) was the sixth son and youngest child of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. He was a nephew of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

Born in Imperial Russia during the reign of his paternal second cousin and maternal uncle Nicholas II, he was on vacation in Crimea at the fall of the Russian monarchy. He was joined there by his immediate family. They escaped the fate of many of his relatives killed by the Bolsheviks. He left Russia in April 1919, at age 11. In the late 1920s, he emigrated to the United States where he met Princess Natalia Golitsyna. They married in 1931. The couple had one daughter and lived for decades in Woodside, California.