Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia

Who was Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia?

Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia was the third child of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia and his wife Grand Duchess Militza.

Nadejda was engaged before the outbreak of World War I to Prince Oleg Constantinovich of Russia, who was killed in action. She married Prince Nicholas Vladimirovich Orlov in the Crimea in April 1917. They were among the Romanovs who escaped the Russian Revolution in 1919 aboard the British ship the HMS Marlborough. Their baby daughter Princess Irina Orlova, born in March 1918, was the youngest passenger aboard the ship.

The Orlovs had two daughters :

Princess Irina Nikolaievna Orlova; married 1st Rome 27 March 1940 Baron Hans von Waldstatten; m. 2nd The Hague 8 January 1960 Anthony Adam Zylstra

Princess Xenia Nikolaievna Orlova; married 1st Avon 27 March 1940 Paul-Marcel de Montaignac de Pessotte-Bressolles; m. 2nd Paris 14 March 1951 Chevalier Jean Albert d'Almont

Princess Nadejda divorced in 1940. She died in Chantilly, France in 1988. Her daughters left descendants.