#Alexandra georgievna

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Through her visits to her mother's family, Alexandra was no stranger to Russia or for that matter to the Orthodox religion, in which she too had been brought up. Settling into a palace of their own behind the Church of the Annunciation on the Neva embankment in St Petersburg, Paul and Alexandra's closest friends and companions were Ella and Serge. In fact, the two young grand duchesses, Elisabeth Feodorovna and Alexandra Georgievna, not only became great friends but were like sisters, as close to one another as their husbands had always been. 'I do love her so dearly', Ella wrote on one occasion to Alexandra's brother Prince Nicholas of Greece and in a further letter referred to herself as 'your own sisters sister'. (...) After doing the rounds of the family sick beds [after a typhus epidemic in 1889], which she likened to visiting a 'real family hospital', Ella, whose own evidently robust state of health saw her safely through the epidemic, went to sit with Alexandra Georgiyevna, who was now four months pregnant with her first child. Seeing Paul ill, Ella wrote, 'makes her very nervous and she will think it worse than it really is'. To help distract her, Ella took Alexandra to the opera (...). A month later, the epidemic had started to pass and the sick were restored to health. Despite a very high wind which whipped up the waters of the Neva and the city's canals, Serge and Paul both ventured out of doors, albeit by carriage. Their destination was the Winter Palace where, during the first week of December, they took part in a reading of a forthcoming production of Tolstoy's Tsar Boris, in which they were both to appear. With the Emperor's permission, the play was staged in the Hermitage theatre at the end of January.

"Ella: Princess, Saint And Martyr" - Christopher Warwick

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Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Russia (née Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg) with daughter Queen Olga of Greece (née GD Olga Konstantinovna), and granddaughters Princesses Alexandra and Marie of Greece and Denmark (later GD’s Alexandra and Maria Georgievna), 1880s

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Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Russia (née Princess of Saxe-Altenburg) with her granddaughters Princesses Alexandra and Marie “Minnie” of Greece and Denmark, 1880s 🤍✨

The two young girls would both end up marrying back into the Romanov family. Alexandra to Pavel Alexandrovich and Marie to Georgy Mikhailovich.

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Alexandra, Maria, Constantine, Nicholas and George of Greece.

The were the five eldest children of King George I and Olga Konstantinovna. Three of them grew up to marry Romanovs themselves: Alexandra married Paul Alexandrovich; Maria married Georgiy Mikhailovich; and Nicholas married Elena Vladimirovna.

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Cousins ​​playing cards, late 1880's

Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Crown Prince Constantine of Greece and Denmark, Tsesarevich Nicholas, Prince George of Greece and Denmark, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, Prince Albert Victor of Wales.

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They were so cute together! 🥹❤

and it's so sad that Alexandra died so young. 💔

“We love her more and more every day. And yet I sometimes cannot believe that she is Pavel's wife and will remain with us forever. It's so wonderful!”

- Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna of Russia on her new sister-in-law, Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna. Sadly, Alexandra died giving birth to her son, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, aged only twenty-one.

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Group photo c. 1890

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Photographs: 1. Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich; 2. Pavel's first wife: Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna (Nee Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark); 3. Pavel's morganatic wife: Olga Valerianovna, Princess Paley (nee Olga Valerianovna Karnovich).

Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich (1860 - 1919) and his children

Grand Duke Pavel was the youngest son of Emperor Alexander II and Empress Maria Alexandrovna. As a child and even as an adult, he had very frail health (but that did not prevent him from being very successful with the ladies and a great dancer.) Politically, Pavel would play his most important role toward the end of the Romanov dynasty, when he largely acted as a liaison between Empress Alexandra and Emperor Nicholas II and the rest of the Romanov family. It was Grand Duke Paul who informed the Empress of the abdication.

Pavel was married twice and had five children. His first wife was Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna (nee Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark.) He had two children with her, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna (the younger) and Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich (Alexandra died giving birth to him.) Several years later, Pavel married Olga Valerianovna Karnovich morganatically and was exiled from Russia by the Emperor; the couple had a comfortable exile since Paul had money out of Russia. Olga would be made Princess Paley when the couple was allowed to return to Russia. By the time they returned to Russia, they had three children: Vladimir, Irina, and Natalia.

Grand Duke Pavel's five children were remarkably good-looking. One of his daughters, Natalia, became a model and actress in the United States. It is a shame that they had to live through such horrible times; none of them seem to find lasting stability in the area of relationships throughout their lives. But this post is just about what a good example of the general good looks of the Romanov family Pavel's children were.

Following are some photographs of Pavel's beautiful offspring:

Photographs: Pavel and Olga's children: 1. Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley; 2. Princesses Natalia and Irina Pavlovna Paley; 3. Prince Vladimir with his two little sisters; 4. Prince Vladimir; 5. Princess Irina Pavlovna; 6. Princess Natalia Pavlovna

Photographs: Pavel and Alexandra's children: 1. Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna the Younger; 2. Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna; 3. Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich

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Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna with her favourite sister-in-law, Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna. ❤️‍🩹

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Empress Maria Fyodorovna with her sister Princess Alexandra of Wales and niece Princess Maria Georgievna of Greece

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A married man, with a wife he loved and a palace of his own, the former Stieglitz Mansion on the English Quay in St Petersburg, Pavel was supremely happy, and Elisabeth and Sergei were as pleased with Alexandra as he was. Elisabeth said that her new sister-in-law had a cheering effect on the brothers, encouraging them to talk about their childhood, which kept them amused for hours on end. None of the others seemed to realize that Alexandra found the adjustment to married life draining, and at times unhappy. She was ten years younger than Pavel and his regimental duties often took him away from home. In November 1889, five months after the wedding, one of the Tsaritsa's ladies found her pale, exhausted by a difficult first pregnancy, and homesick for Greece. Her baby, Marie, was born in the spring and Sergei was chosen as godfather, proudly carrying the baby to the font. In the autumn of 1890 Pavel took Alexandra home to Greece for a holiday, and on his return he became commander of the Imperial Horse Guards, based at Krasnoe Selo. He was given a suite of rooms in the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoe Selo but was only able to join Alexandra there at weekends. She felt his absence badly, especially when Sergei and Elisabeth left the city for Moscow. Elisabeth told her father that Sergei was particularly troubled by 'the thought of leaving Paul-you know how Serge has always lived for this brother, treating him more like a son.

"Romanov Autumn" - Charlotte Zeepvat

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Rare photo of the 5 eldest children of King George I of Greece and Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, 1880(?)

from left to right: George, Marie “Minnie”, Constantine, Nicholas, and Alexandra

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Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales with their younger cousins Princesses Alexandra and Maria of Greece, 1880s

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Mother and daughter: Alexandra Georgievna and Maria Pavlovna.

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They all were such wonderful mothers. 💞

Romanov women as loving mothers:

Empress Maria Fyodorovna with her fourth child and first daughter Xenia

Queen Olga Konstantinovna of Greece with her fifth child and second daughter Maria

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna with her second son and child Kyril

Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna with her first child and only daughter Maria

Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mavrikievna with her third child and first daughter Tatiana

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna with her first child and only daughter Irina

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna with her youngest child and only son Alexei

Grand Duchess Victoria Fyodorovna with her second child and daughter Maria

Princess Maria Pavlovna of Sweden with her first child and son Lennart

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“Pavel and Alix […] are as happy and contented as surely young couple passionately in love should be.”

—Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna of Russia on her brother-in law, Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich, and his bride, Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark.