Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna | |
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Born | Anichkov Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire | 6 April 1875
Died | 20 April 1960 Wilderness House, Hampton Court Palace, Richmond upon Thames, United Kingdom | (aged 85)
Burial | Cimetière de Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France |
Spouse | |
Issue | |
House | Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov |
Father | Alexander III of Russia |
Mother | Dagmar of Denmark |
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Ксения Александровна Романова; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1875 – 20 April 1960) was the elder daughter and fourth child of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and Dagmar of Denmark. She was the sister of the last Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II.
She married her father's cousin, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, with whom she had seven children. She was the mother-in-law of Felix Yusupov and a cousin of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia who, together, killed Grigori Rasputin, holy healer to her nephew, the haemophiliac Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia. During her brother's reign she recorded in her diary and letters increasing concern about his rule. After the fall of the monarchy in February 1917, she fled Russia, eventually settling in the United Kingdom. Her great-grandson Alexis Romanoff has been a head of the Romanov Family since November 2021.