Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia

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1875 – 1960

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Who was Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia?

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia was the eldest daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia and the sister of Emperor Nicholas II. She married her cousin Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, with whom she had seven children. 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.

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  • 'The Russian Revolution took almost everything from me but the Bolsheviks left me with one privilage--to be a private person.'
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Born
Apr 6, 1875
Saint Petersburg
Also known as
  • Kseniya Aleksandrovna Romanova
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Nationality
  • Russia
Lived in
  • Saint Petersburg
  • London
Died
Apr 20, 1960
London

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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