Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia
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| Spouse | Princess Irina Pavlovna Paley |
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| Prince Michael Feodorovich Princess Irene Feodorovna |
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| House | House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov |
| Father | Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia |
| Mother | Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia |
| Born | 23 December 1898 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died | 30 November 1968 (aged 69) Cannes, France |
Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia (23 December 1898 – 30 November 1968) 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
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[edit] Russian prince
Prince Feodor Alexandrovich Romanov was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia on 23 December 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 left Russia in December 1918 abroad the Royal Navy ship HMS Marlborough and moved to England and later to France.
During his first years in exile Prince Feodor lived in Paris in the house of his sister Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia.He died in 1968 in Cannes.
[edit] Marriage
Prince Feodor married in Paris on 21 May 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 two children:
- Prince Michael Feodorovich (Paris 4 May 1924 – 22 September 2008); married 1st Paris 15 Oct 1958 (divorced 1992) Helga Staufenberger (born Vienna, 22 August 1926); m. 2nd Josse 15 January 1994 Maria de las Mercedes Ustrell-Cabani (b.Hospitalet, Spain 26 August 1960) Michael died on the same day as his cousin, Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia.
- Princess Irene Feodorovna (born 7 May 1934 in Fontenay, France); married 1st Biarritz 23 December 1955 (divorced 1959) Andre Jean Pelle (born Biarritz 29 November 1923); married 2d Le Pin 26 December 1962 (divorced) Victor-Marcel Soulas (born Saint-Méen-le-Grand 26 August 1938).
[edit] Title and style
- His Highness Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia
N.B. After the Russian revolution members of the Imperial family tended to drop the territorial designation “of Russia” and use the princely title with the surname Romanov.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Almanach de Gotha (186th ed.). 2003. pp. 314. ISBN 0953214249.
- Van Der Kiste, John & Hall Coryne . Once a Grand Duchess: Xenia, Sister of Nicholas II, Sutton Publishing, 2002. ISBN 0750927496.
[edit] Ancestry
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