Gavriil Konstantinowitsch Romanow

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Prince Gawriil around 1916

Gavriil Konstantinovich Romanov , Russian Гавриил Константинович (born July 3 . Jul / 15. July  1887 greg. In Pavlovsk , †  28. February 1955 in Paris ) was a member of the House of Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp .

Life

Prince Gawriil was the second son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Romanow (1858-1915) and his wife Princess Elisabeth von Sachsen-Altenburg (1865-1927), daughter of Prince Moritz von Sachsen-Altenburg and Princess Auguste von Sachsen-Meiningen.

In February 1917, a provisional government was formed under Prince Lvov . Shortly afterwards, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated and the Bolsheviks under Lenin and Trotsky seized power after the October Revolution of 1917.

On March 5, 1917, Prince Gavriil married Antonia Nesterovskaya, a former ballerina, in Petrograd . Shortly afterwards he was captured by the Bolsheviks at the Peter and Paul Fortress . His wife was able to free her husband through connections through her friend Maxim Gorky . After their release, they lived in Petrograd until they left in October 1918. After leaving via Sweden, the couple later lived in Paris. There they supported Kyrill Wladimirowitsch Romanow , who was regarded by the exiled Russians as the head of the Romanovs and Gavriil's wife Antonia was appointed Princess Romanovskaya-Streninskaya. After the death of his wife in 1950, Gawriil married Irina Ivanovna Kurakina in 1951. Both marriages remained childless.

After attending the opera, Gavriil Konstantinowitsch Romanow committed suicide in Paris in 1955. He is buried in the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois .

Worth mentioning

  • On July 14, 1886, Tsar Alexander III modified the the house laws of the Romanovs, by restricting the title “Grand Duke” or “Grand Duchess” to the children and grandchildren in the male line of a tsar. Distant descendants would in future bear the title " Imperial Princes" or "Princess". Gawriil, a great-grandson of Tsar Nicholas I , was only an “Imperial Prince” by birth.

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ dtv Atlas for World History, Volume 2; First World War / Political Crises, Russian Revolution (1917), 129
personal data
SURNAME Romanow, Gavriil Konstantinowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Романов, Гавриил Константинович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Member of the House of Romanow-Holstein-Gottorp
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Pavlovsk
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1955
Place of death Paris