Prince Kirill Romanovsky-Iskander

Who is Prince Kirill Romanovsky-Iskander?

Prince Kirill Alexandrovich Romanovsky-Iskander, or Cyril Iskander Romanov, or simply Prince Iskander, was the last Romanov to remain in Russia following the Revolution.

He was the son of Prince Romanovsky-Iskander and his first wife, Olga Iosifovna Rogowska. He was a grandson of Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich, the disgraced grandson of Tsar Nicholas I; thus, Kirill was a patrilineal great-great-grandson of Nicholas I.

Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaevich's son, Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich, was exiled to Central Asia in disgrace for stealing his mother's diamonds. Grand Duke Nicholas established a palace in Tashkent and lived in grand style where he sired a son, whom Tsar Alexander III granted the title Prince Iskander. This prince, in turn, fathered the Prince Iskander.

He was born in Tashkent, a member of the Constantinovichi branch of the Russian Imperial Family. He had a sister, Princess Natalia Romanovskaya-Iskander. Her parents, who had been married since 1912, separated and in 1924 Kirill and his sister moved with their mother to Moscow, where Olga remarried to Nicholas Androsov.