The Countess speaks in the video interview, and when she was asked by the reporter if she feels like a princess at all (she used the word "knyagina") she answered that "no, definitely not. I'm Xenia.... Nicolaevna, and I'm very happy with this". She seemed to be very "approachable", very easy-going.
Has anybody ever conducted an extended interview with her? What does she think when she goes to Russia, and sees the palaces, the art, the furniture and certainly, the jewels that belonged to her direct ancestors less than a century ago?
I think that if Russia were to restore to her the value of all the assets that the communists expropriated, there wouldn't be enough money in the country.
I know that some time ago they let her spend a short time in the Moika palace, I think, with her family, and her portrait hangs in there as well, but other than that, has she been able to recover even a small fraction of what she would have inherited? Has any Russian noble family been able to have anything returned to them by the Russian State?
