#grand duchess Xenia alexandrovna

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

Rare photo of Xenia & Olga! ❤

[adini-nikolaevna]

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna and Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich of Russia by Edelfelt.

[lesyoussoupoff]

Grand Duke Alexander, Princess Irina and Grand Duchess Xenia

[the-last-tsar]

Grand Duchess Xenia and husband Grand Duke Alexander in Krasnoye Selo; 1903.

[colourbymarie]

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia and Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia

[lesromanoff]

Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna dressed for the 1903 Imperial Ball.

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

VERY rare photo of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, early 1880s 🖤🤍

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Imperial court gown worn by Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna (1875-1960), sister of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (1868- 1918).

1890′s-1900′s

📍: The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

[empress-alexandra]

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, 1892.

[loiladadiani]

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna and Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich

Xenia was pregnant and they looked happy here. They had been in love since their teens. They had seven children. In the middle of her pregnancy with the seventh he chose to tell her he had a mistress.

He constantly asked her for a divorce to marry this or that woman.There was a wealthy American. There was the wife of a sculptor who was carving his bust. He wanted to run away to Australia with most of them. There was a young nurse, who already married and years after the relationship, nursed him as he was dying. By the time he was a fifty-something, Sandro was in love with and wanted to marry someone younger than his daughter. Irina begged her mother not to give him a divorce so that he would not embarrass himself.

What was Xenía going to do? She took lovers herself (I have only read of two.) Irina hated the first one, Fane. She suffered through her parents’ marital woes.

Close to the end of his life, he wanted to go back to Xenia (there is a letter from him to her stating so- he says the opposite in his book, of course.) She was too tired and said no.

Xenia and Sandro are buried together in the South of France.

[thepaleys]

Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna's Engagment

His [Grand Duke Paul's] only happiness now lay in Paris. He and Olga enjoyed a simple family life and their house at Boulogne-sur-Seine became a magnet for artists, writers and holidaying Russians. At times it seemed like an outpost of the Russian Embassy. The names of Grand Prince Pavel and Countess Hohenfelsen headed the guest list at social functions, evenings at the opera and ballet, and services at the Russian church. Pavel became familiar with a wider range of people and ideas than he would ever have encountered in Russia. He built up an impressive collection of antiques and works of art too, and extended his house to make room for them. He was able to make brief visits to Russia but Olga was banned until 1907, when she was allowed to attend the birth of her first grandchild.

Meanwhile, Marie and Dmitri grew up without their father. In 1907 Marie became engaged to Prince Vilhelm of Sweden: she would say later that the engagement was arranged by her aunt against her will but there is no sense of this in letters written at the time. Her memory may have been coloured by the subsequent failure of the marriage. But at the same time, any pleasure she might have felt in the engagement was severely shaken by her father's reaction: Pavel refused to attend the ceremony unless he could bring his wife. He set two conditions. First, he wanted to see Olga accepted at Court. "Could you really think that I would leave my wife alone," he asked the Tsar, "she whom everyone here loves and respects (...) I did not make the break and sacrifice everything to let her then be humiliated and insulted without reason." Second, he wanted the wardship of his children ended, and he refused to be seen on the sidelines of an engagement over which he had had no say. From his own standpoint, his arguments must have appeared reasonable but the family did not see it that way. "What incredible heartlessness!', the Tsar's sister Ksenia wrote in her diary. "I feel so sorry for poor Maria - he's spoilt everything for her!' That October, the Tsar had a slight change of heart, and allowed Pavel and Olga to visit St Petersburg together to see Marie and Dmitri.

Romanov Autumn - Charlotte Zeepvat

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

♡ Empress Maria Feodorovna photographed with her children: Xenia, George, and Nicholas, c. 1879. ♡

[adini-nikolaevna]

The children of Emperor Alexander III of Russia.

[lesyoussoupoff]

Princess Zenaida Youssoupoff and Grand Duchess Xenia

[the-last-tsar]

Tsarina Alexandra taking photos of the pregnant Grand Duchess Xenia at Standart; 1898.

[tiaramania]

Bonhams' Auction

Bonhams' Luxury Paris Jewels auction on February 16th will feature two tiaras and a jewelry catalog that belonged to Grand Duchess Ksenia Alexandrovna.

Diamond Necklace Tiara - estimate 40,000 - 60,000 EUR

Diamond Tiara by Giuseppe Knight - estimate 50,000 - 70,000 EUR

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia's Personal Jewelry Albums - estimate 50,000 - 70,000 EUR