Children and descendants of GD Alexander Mikhailovitch

[Elise]

Is it Irina at right on this photo ? I notice that she was not so beautiful that people could say it at her time. I think her cousin Tatiana was prettier than her.

Yes it is From left to right : Rostilav, André, Vassili, Nikita, Dimitri, Feodor and Irina  

[lumpi]

Which palace lived in Ksenia and Sandro with their children before revolution? In Ropscha?? I read in a german photobook: Ropscha, bis zur Revolution von Mitgliedern der Zarenfamilie bewohnt.
Anyone knows?

[Sainte-Claire1875]

Which palace lived in Ksenia and Sandro with their children before revolution? In Ropscha?? I read in a german photobook: Ropscha, bis zur Revolution von Mitgliedern der Zarenfamilie bewohnt.
Anyone knows?

Ksenia and Sandro spent the first couple nights of their honeymoon at Ropsha palace. The palaces they owned and lived in were Ai-Todor (in the Crimea) and a palace in Petersburg at 106 Moika Street--I don't know of an actual name for that palace. They also still had 'apartments' at Gatchina and I think Anitchkov, too.  

[Paul]

The Boys.

[dp5486]

That looks like Andrei at the wheel and I don't seem to see Sandro in the photo. Is it perhaps a photo of only the boys?

[Paul]

That looks like Andrei at the wheel and I don't seem to see Sandro in the photo. Is it perhaps a photo of only the boys?

whoops- yes.

Doing a paper and surfing the messageboard at the same time. Multi-tasking in overrated. You saved a bit of editting on the paper, btw, and I thank you.

[Paul]

This one is credited as Dimitri, with Dimitri Pavlovich, in the late 1930s.

[Paul]

Dowager Empress, Nikita, & Xenia.

[RomanovFan]

Dowager Empress, Nikita, & Xenia.

Lol...was Xenia really THAT short, or was she bending down?

[Svetabel]

Lol...was Xenia really THAT short, or was she bending down?

  They stand on the stairs with very wide steps.

[victoria89]

hello,


Does anyone have a good link to bios of Xenia and Sandros childern and their spouses?

thanks victoria

[Sainte-Claire1875]

Lol...was Xenia really THAT short, or was she bending down?

LOLOL. She was short, but not THAT short! She was around 5' 2", give or take an inch.  

[dp5486]

I was wondering if anyone had any information on Prince Andrei Alexandrovich's wife Elisabeta "Elsa" di Ruffo. From what I read in Hall's biography of Xenia, she was divorced with two children at the time of their marriage. Being that she left with Sandro and Andrei on the Forsythe for France, what became of her children from her previous marriage?

Thanks!

[LisaDavidson]

LOLOL. She was short, but not THAT short! She was around 5' 2", give or take an inch. Goodness, to be that short would be to be called a 'midget', please forgive the expression, as I'm not trying to offend anyone by using that term, as I know it can be derogatory to some people, and that's not how I mean it at all!  

The "m" word is indeed regarded as a prejorative term by little people, so I'm asking you to remove it, please. I realize your intentions are benign, but we really don't know who may be reading this. I certainly don't want for you or us to offend, especially with good intentions.

[frimousse]

I was wondering if anyone had any information on Prince Andrei Alexandrovich's wife Elisabeta "Elsa" di Ruffo. From what I read in Hall's biography of Xenia, she was divorced with two children at the time of their marriage. Being that she left with Sandro and Andrei on the Forsythe for France, what became of her children from her previous marriage?

Thanks!

Never heard of children from previous marriage?? As far as I know Elsa ( her father was Fabrizio Duke Sasso-Ruffo and her mother  Nathalia Mechtchersky) married count A.A. Friderizi (or Friederici) and they divorced...She married Prince Andrei in Crimea during their exile in 1918 and one year after gave birth to Xenia, followed by two other babies...So I don't know how she could manage to have two babies from her first husband?
She died in London during a bombing in 1940.