Kira Kirillovna Romanova

Kira Kirillovna Romanova

Kira Kirillowna Romanowa , married Kira Princess of Prussia (born May 9, 1909 in Paris , † September 8, 1967 in Saint-Briac-sur-mer ), was a great-granddaughter of the Russian Tsar Alexander II , great-niece of Tsar Alexander III. and great-granddaughter of the British Queen Victoria .

biography

Kira was the daughter of Grand Duke Kyrill Wladimirowitsch Romanow (1876–1938) and his wife Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1876–1936), the daughter of Duke Alfred Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his wife, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna Romanowa .

After the October Revolution , her father Kyrill and his family fled first to Finland and then to Coburg; last they went to France.

On May 4, 1938, Kira married Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1907–1994), son of the former Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and his wife Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Louis Ferdinand von Prussia managed the private estate Cadinen in East Prussia from 1940 to 1945 .

After the Second World War, the family first moved to Bad Kissingen until they moved to Bremen in 1947 , where they lived in the Wümmehof in Borgfeld from 1950 .

The urns of Princess Kira, Prince Louis Ferdinand and some of their children are buried in the Russian Orthodox Resurrection Chapel of Hohenzollern Castle.

progeny

The marriage had seven children:

• Friedrich Wilhelm (1939-2015)

1. ⚭ 1967–1975 Waltraud Freydag
2. ⚭ 1976–2003 Honor Guard of Speeches
3. ⚭ 2004 Sibylle Kretschmer

• Michael (1940-2014)

1. ⚭ 1966–1982 Jutta Jörn
2. ⚭ 1982 Brigitte Dallwitz-Wegner

• Marie-Cécilie (* 1942)

1. ⚭ 1965–1989 Friedrich August Herzog von Oldenburg

• Kira (1943-2004)

1. ⚭ 1973–1984 Thomas Liepsner

• Louis Ferdinand Jr. (1944–1977, maneuver accident)

1. ⚭ Donata Countess zu Castell-Rüdenhausen

• Christian-Sigismund (* 1946)

1. ⚭ Nina Countess to Reventlow

• Xenia (1949-1992)

1. ⚭ 1973–1978 Per Edvard Lithander

Honors

• The Kira-von-Preußen-Weg in Bremen - Borgfeld , the Wümmehof had been the family's residence since 1950, was named after her.
• The Princess Kira von Preußen Foundation for the support of socially disadvantaged Berlin children was named in 1954.

photos

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  Kira around 1912

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  Kira with her parents and brother Vladimir

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  Kira with husband Louis Ferdinand (1938)

literature

• Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia, "In the Stream of History" ,?. Edition, Munich 1989, newest 1994 [original title: "As Kaiserenkel through the world" , 1st edition, Berlin (Argon) 1952]

Web links

Commons : Kira Kirillovna Romanova  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Princess Kira of Prussia Foundation
• Kira, Princess of Prussia , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 40/1967 of September 25, 1967, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)