The exile of the Romanovs

Alexander Mikhailovich Family

evacuated through the Crimea (December 11, 1918 HMS Forsyth and April 11, 1919, battleship Marlboro ):

• Empress Maria Fedorovna
• Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich the Younger
• Grand Duchess Anastasia of Montenegro , his wife
• Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich
• Emperor’s sister, Grand Duchess Ksenia Alexandrovna , his wife. Their kids:
  • Romanova, Irina Aleksandrovna , her husband Yusupov, Felix Feliksovich and daughter Yusupova, Irina Feliksovna ; as well as Felix’s parents - Zinaida Yusupova and Felix Sr.
  • Andrei Alexandrovich Romanov, along with newlywed Elizabeth Fabritsievna Sasso.
  • Romanov, Fedor Alexandrovich
  • Romanov, Nikita Alexandrovich
  • Romanov, Dmitry Alexandrovich
  • Romanov, Rostislav Alexandrovich
  • Romanov, Vasily Alexandrovich
• Militsa Chernogorskaya and Pyotr Nikolaevich , their children Marina Petrovna , Roman Petrovich and Nadezhda Petrovna

Maria Pavlovna's family

evacuated via Novorossiysk:

• Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna Mecklenburg-Schwerinsk
• Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich , her son. During the October Revolution he was with his mother in Kislovodsk. At the end of 12.1919 he left Kislovodsk and on 04.01.1920 arrived in Novorossiysk, and after 1.5 months he was evacuated abroad on a French ship.
• Matilda Kshesinskaya and her son Vladimir Krasinsky are Andrei Vladimirovich's illegitimate family, legalized in emigration
• Boris Vladimirovich is her son. 09.1918 - lived in Anapa, and after the liberation of Crimea from the Bolsheviks, he moved to Kislovodsk. 1919 - emigrated through Constantinople to Paris with Rashevskaya, formerly brother and mother. “The commander of the Bolshevik detachment, who was ordered to shoot these two Grand Dukes, turned out to be a former artist who spent several years of his life in Paris in a difficult struggle for existence, vainly hoping to find a buyer for his paintings. A year before the war, Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich, strolling through the Latin Quarter, came across an exhibition of artistically painted pillows. He liked them with his originality, and he acquired a significant number of them. That's all. The Bolshevik commissar could not kill a man who appreciated his art. He put both Grand Dukes in a car with the badge of the Communist Party and drove them to the area of ​​the white armies ” ^[1] .
• Rashevskaya, Zinaida Sergeevna - the future wife of Boris Vladimirovich

Olga Alexandrovna's family

via Kuban:

• Grand Duchess, sister of the emperor Olga Alexandrovna , her husband Kulikovsky, Nikolai Alexandrovich and newborn children Tikhon and Guri . They lived in the village where the life-cossack of the empress mother brought them, they left already in 1920

Elizabeth Mavrikievna Family

left for Sweden:

• Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna
• her youngest children, princes of imperial blood Vera Konstantinovna , Georgy Konstantinovich
• her orphaned grandchildren Vsevolod Ioannovich and Ekaterina Ioannovna
• later her widowed daughter-in-law Elena Petrovna Serbskaya moved to them

Maria Georgievna's family

• Maria Georgievna , Nina , Ksenia

Kirill Vladimirovich's family

via Sweden:

• Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich with his family left for Russian Finland.
• Grand Duchess Victoria Fedorovna , his wife. Their young children:
  • Princess of Imperial Blood Maria Kirillovna
  • Princess of Imperial Blood Kira Kirillovna
  • Vladimir Kirillovich , who was born on August 17 (30), 1917 in Finland

Leuchtenberg

Other members of the Imperial House and Morganatic families

• Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich . He participated in the murder of Rasputin, for which he was sent to the Caucasus Front. It turned out in Persia. With British help, through Tehran and Bombay fled to London.
• Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna , his sister. During the revolution, she married Prince Sergei Putyatin and since she had a passport in the name of her husband, the Bolsheviks did not recognize the Grand Duchess in the “citizen of Mary Putyatin” ^[1] .
• Sheremetyevskaya, Natalya Sergeevna (Brasova) - the morganatic wife of the heir Mikhail Alexandrovich. Natalya visited her husband twice in Perm, and before the third trip she found out about his “disappearance”, she was taken to prison. A few months later, she pretended to have a severe cold, and she was transferred to a prison hospital, from where she fled with the help of her daughter (from a previous marriage). With a fake passport, dressed as a Red Cross nurse, she reached Kiev. Together with her daughter, she left Russia through Odessa.
• Brasov, Georgy Mikhailovich - the morganatic son of Mikhail Alexandrovich and Brasova. The little boy was taken out by strangers according to forged documents.
• Princess of Imperial Blood Elena Petrovna Serbskaya . She and her husband went to exile in Alapaevsk, leaving the children in the care of their mother-in-law (they left for Sweden, see above). In Yekaterinburg, she was detained. In late July, she was transferred to Perm under arrest. The Serbian and Norwegian embassies intervened in the fate of the princess, under their pressure in November 1918 Elena Petrovna was transferred to Moscow. On December 2, 1918, the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee decided to transfer it to the Norwegian Embassy and "not to impede its departure from the borders of the RSFSR."
• Prince of Imperial Blood Gabriel Konstantinovich . On August 15, 1918, he was arrested and spent in prison about a month. His newlywed morganatic wife Antonina Nesterovskaya (former ballerina), referring to his tuberculosis and turning to Maxim Gorky, achieved his release. Soon they received permission to leave and left for Finland, and then to France.
• Princess of Imperial Blood Tatyana Konstantinovna with young children Temuyraz Bagration-Mukhransky and Natalia . Via Kiev to Romania and Switzerland.
• Iskander, Alexander Nikolaevich , the son led. Prince Nikolai Konstantinovich. After the evacuation of the Russian Army, General Baron Wrangel from Crimea sailed away with the remnants of the army in Gallipoli. His wife with two children chose to stay in Russia.
• Oldenburgsky, Peter Alexandrovich and his parents Oldenburgsky, Alexander Petrovich and Evgenia Maksimilianovna Leuchtenbergskaya
• some of the counts of Zarnekau - the morganatic offspring of Prince Constantine of Oldenburg
• Karlova, Natalya Fedorovna , ur. Vonlyarskaya (1858-1921) - the morganatic wife of Georgy Georgievich Mecklenburg-Strelitsky and her children
• The Paley family, with the exception of the executed son.

• Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna married the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Frederick Franz III. Being a widow, she lived in Switzerland and France.
• Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna . The wife of the Greek prince Nicholas
• Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna . Wife of the Greek King George

others for permanent residence

• Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich , his wife Merenberg, Sofia Nikolaevna , their children. We lived in England
• Serene Princess Dolgorukova, Ekaterina Mikhailovna , the morganatic widow of Emperor Alexander II. After the death of her husband, she lived in France. She died in 1922. Her descendants:
  • Yuryevskaya, Olga Alexandrovna - the daughter of the emperor. She lived in Nice with her husband and children
  • Yurievskaya, Ekaterina Alexandrovna - daughter of the emperor. Husband - Obolensky, Sergey Platonovich . He participated in the Civil War, fought for three years in the White Army. After the end of the Civil War he emigrated.
  • Yurievsky, Alexander Georgievich - grandson of the emperor

• Dreyer, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna (Iskander) - the morganatic wife led. Prince Nikolai Konstantinovich.
• Iskander, Artemy Nikolaevich - the son led. Prince Nikolai Konstantinovich. According to one version, he died during the Civil War, fighting on the side of the whites, according to another - he died of typhus in Tashkent in 1919.
• children of Alexander Nikolaevich Iskander : ( Natalya and Kirill (1915-1992) Androsovs)
• Belevsky-Zhukovsky, Alexei Alekseevich , illegitimate son of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich. He was shot in Tbilisi in 1932.
• Beauharnais, Daria Evgenievna , the morganatic daughter of the Duke of Leuchtenberg, left for Germany in October 1917, and in October 1918, at the very height of the civil war, she returned to Soviet Russia. In 1937 she was shot.
• Zarnekau, Agrippina Konstantinovna - the morganatic wife of Prince Konstantin Petrovich of Oldenburg. She died in 1926 (?) In Kislovodsk. Their daughter Zarnekau, Nina Konstantinovna died there in 1922.

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https://vimeo.com/261295886 Interview with Grand Duke Mikhail Andreevich Romanov recorded in Australia