Tatiana Konstantinovna Romanova
Imperial Princess Tatiana Konstantinovna Romanowa ( Russian Княжна Татьяна Константиновна ; * 11 January July / 23 January 1890 greg. In Pavlovsk , Russia ; † 28 August 1979 in Jerusalem , Israel ) was a member of the House of Romanow-Holstein-Gottorp .
Life
Tatjana was the eldest daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Romanow (1858-1915) and his wife Princess Elisabeth von Sachsen-Altenburg (1865-1927), second daughter of Prince Moritz von Sachsen-Altenburg and Princess Augusta Luise Adelaide Karoline Ida von Sachsen- Meiningen.
In the spring of 1911, Princess Tatiana Konstantinovna became engaged to the Georgian Prince Konstantin Bagration- Makharinsky, who served in the Imperial Regiment. After signing a waiver of her dynastic rights, she was able to marry with the permission of Tsar Nicholas II . On September 3, 1911, Princess Tatiana married Prince Konstantin Bagration-Makharinsky (1888-1915) on Pavlovsk . The Imperial Family was present and the Tsar suggested that the groom sign the marriage register with “Prince Grusinsky” (i.e. Prince of Georgia ). The happy marriage resulted in son Teymuraz and daughter Natalia.
After the outbreak of the First World War , her husband enlisted in the Russian armed forces and was fatally wounded in 1915. Her brother Oleg was killed in 1914 and three other brothers, Ivan , Konstantin and Igor , were murdered by the Bolsheviks in Alapayevsk in 1918 .
During her widowhood, Tatiana was often near her uncle, Grand Duke Dmitri Konstantinowitsch Romanow . After the October Revolution she stayed with him in his palace, where she fell in love with his aide, Alexander Korochenzow. After their uncle was arrested, the young couple and their children fled first to Romania and later to Switzerland . In November 1921 they married Alexander Korochenzow (born August 17, 1877) in Geneva , their second husband died on February 6, 1922 in Lausanne .
In 1950, Princess Tatjana took the veil and died as mother Tamara, abbess in the Maria Magdalena monastery in Jerusalem .
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". Tatjana, a great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I , was only an “imperial princess” by birth.
- She was the first female Romanov to openly marry a subjugated or non-dynastic prince since the dynasty came to the Russian throne in 1613. The marriage was not viewed as an unequal marriage since the House of Bagration ( Georgia and Armenia ), like the House of Orléans (France), had once been a ruling dynasty. It was different with Grand Duke Michail Michailowitsch Romanow , married to Countess Sophia de Torby (1891) and Grand Duke Pawel Alexandrowitsch Romanow married to Princess Olga Paley (1902): They made their marriage public and had to live in exile . Or an unequal marriage in secret, as in the case of Tsarina Elisabeth Petrovna Romanova married to Count Alexei Grigorievich Razumovsky (1732) and the second marriage of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna Romanova to Count Grigory Stroganow (1854).
literature
- David Chavchavadze: The Grand Dukes , Atlantic (1989) ISBN 0-938311-11-5 .
- John van der Kiste: The Romanovs 1818-1959 , Sutton Publishing (1999) ISBN 0-7509-2275-3 .
- Charlotte Zeepvat: Romanov Autumn , Sutton Publishing (2000) ISBN 0-7509-2739-9 .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Romanowa, Tatiana Konstantinovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Константиновна, Княжна Татьяна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian nobles, member of the House of Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pavlovsk |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1979 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |