Grand Duke Georgiy Mikhailovitch and his family

[Marc]

[Marc]

And Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia,later Princess Chavchavadze!

[Marc]

[Marc]

And one more of Princess Nina with her husband Prince Paul Chavchavadze!

[cimbrio]

Those pictures are lovely, and I find Xenia amazingly beautiful, what a pity she wasn't able ro marry a royal and pass it on to some other royal family, she was so well connected after all... Euharistó Marc

[HollyMI]

Who was Nina's son?  And did Xenia have any children?

Holly

[TampaBay]

Xenia had only one daughter, Nancy Leeds who is still in the line of succession to the Greek Throne.  I believe she lives in New York City.

TampaBay

[Speedycat]

Too bad my scanner puts those awful blue and yellow lines through all my pictures.  The originals are perfect!

[Speedycat]

Maria with her family shortly after her marriage.  There she is in the back row right, leaning on her husband's walking stick.  Interesting pose

[Svetabel]

And Maria's spouse GD Georgiy looks absolutely happy in the pic!  

[Alicky1872]

It looks like he's prodding Marie with his stick!   There's always some joker in family photographs!

[Speedycat]

It looks like he's prodding Marie with his stick!   There's always some joker in family photographs!

It does look like he must have been teasing her with the stick right before the photo was spanned.  She seems to have grabbed hold of it to make him stop...hence this odd pose.

[isabel]

I thik Maria Georgievna resembled a lot her brother George, and it´s curious, but our Queen Sophia of Greece (Queen of Spain), resembled them very much.

About her, i belive that she and Xenia Alexandrovna were very close in childwood, and later they married brothers, had she the support of Xenia in Russia?

An other question, as only sister of Alexandra of Greece, and living in Russia , did she have a close relationship with her  nepheus,motherless child, Maria Paulovna and Dimitri?

[grandduchessella]

She and Xenia were always close I think. One of her daughters was named Xenia.

Based on her memoirs, she doesn't seem to have been especially close to Dmitri & Marie. There isn't any animosity noted but she rarely mentions them. Marie she wrote was spoiled. In one of the Ella/Marie threads I quoted what 'Greek Minny' wrote about her niece.

[isabel]

Even if Maria Paulovna were an spoiled child, it hardly surprise me that she won´t be more tender with them, afeter they losed their mother, Minny´s single sister.