Nikolai Romanowitsch Romanov

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Nikolai with his father Prince Roman and Grandfather Grand Duke Peter in the 1920s

Nikolai Romanovič Romanov ( Russian: Николай Романович Романов , scientific transliteration Nikolaj Romanovič Romanov ; born September 26, 1922 in Antibes ; † September 15, 2014 in Tuscany ) was a member of the House of Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp and a descendant of the Russian Tsar Nicholas I.

Life

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Nikolai is the eldest son of Roman Petrovich Prince Romanov (1896–1978) and his wife Praskowia Countess Sheremeteva (1901–1980). Through his father he is a great-grandson Nikola I. Petrović Njegosch of Montenegro and great-great-grandson of the Russian Tsar Nicholas I.

Nikolai grew up in France and after graduating from high school he studied philology and history . Due to family ties, he did his military service in the Italian Navy . Because of his nearsightedness, he was discharged from the military and lived in Egypt during World War II . Nikolai Romanowitsch Romanow was married to the Italian Sveva della Gherardesca (* 1930) since May 21, 1952. The marriage has daughters Natalia, Elisaveta and Tatiana. The couple lived in Rome and Rougemont .

As a family member and as a historian, Nikolai was jointly responsible for the identification of the family of Tsar Nicholas II , whose bodies had been found in Yekaterinburg , and their solemn burial in the presence of the then President Boris Yeltsin in 1998. The Romanov family expressed their wish to be able to transfer the body of the Tsar's widow Dagmar from Denmark to St. Petersburg . At the side of her husband Alexander III. her last wish was to lie down, said the head of the Romanovs at the time, Nikolai, and his younger brother, Dimitri , who lived in Denmark . Dagmar of Denmark was transferred to St. Petersburg in 2006.

In 1991, together with his brother Dimitri, he published his father's memoirs under the title “Prince Roman Romanow - At the Court of the Last Tsar. 1896-1919 ".

literature

  • Marlene A. Eilers: Queen Victoria's Descendants . Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Md. 1987, ISBN 0-8063-1202-5 .
  • Nicolas Enache: La Descendance de Pierre Le Grand, Tsar de Russie . Sedopols, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-904177-01-9 .
  • Jean-Marie Thiébaud: Les Romanov . Editions Christian, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-86496-072-9 .
  • Roman Romanow: At the court of the last tsar, 1896-1919. The glamorous days of old Russia ("Det var et rigt hus et lykkeligt hus"). Piper, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-492-24389-4 .

swell

  1. ^ Siegfried Thielbeer. Maria Feodorovna - Again on the Tsar's side FAZ. September 24, 2006. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Romanow, Nikolai Romanowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Романов, Николай Романович (Russian); Romanov, Nikolaj Romanovič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Member of the House of Romanow-Holstein-Gottorp
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Antibes , France
DATE OF DEATH 15th September 2014
Place of death Tuscany