Xenia Georgievna Romanova

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Philip Alexius de László : Grand Duchess Xenija Georgijewna Romanovna, oil on canvas, around 1920

Princess Xenija Georgievna Romanova ( Russian Ксения Георгиевна Романова ) (born August 9, jul. / 22 August 1903 greg. In the Mikhailovsky Palace in Saint Petersburg ; † 17th September 1965 in Glen Cove , New York ) was a member of the House of Romanov -Holstein-Gottorp .

Life

Xenija Georgievna was the youngest daughter of the Russian Grand Duke Georgi Mikhailovich Romanov (1863-1919) and his wife Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark (1876-1940), daughter of the Greek King George I and Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna Romanova . She had an older sister, Princess Nina Georgijewna Romanowa (1901-1974), later Princess Chavchavadze.

When the First World War broke out , Grand Duchess Maria Georgievna Romanov was visiting relatives in England with her daughters. After the October Revolution , the Romanovs' assets were confiscated and their father, who served as a general in the Russian army, was shot with three other family members by the Bolsheviks on January 30, 1919 in the Petersburg Peter and Paul Fortress .

On October 8, 1921, Princess Xenija married the US industrialist William Bateman Leeds Jr. (1902-1971), the only son of William Bateman Leeds and Nonnie May "Nancy" Stewart (1870-1923) in Paris . Her mother-in-law married her uncle Prince Christoph of Greece a year earlier, her third marriage, and after the marriage she took the name "Anastasia". A daughter, Nancy Helen Marie (1925-2006) emerged from the joint connection. In 1930, the marriage was divorced because of irreconcilable differences, and she was awarded an annual pension as a severance payment, but only until she was married again. In August 1946 she married the wealthy businessman Herman Jud (1911-1987) in Glen Cove in August 1946, the marriage remained childless.

Princess Xenija died in Glen Cove in 1965 of complications from cancer .

Worth mentioning

During the Russian October Revolution in 1918 , the Bolsheviks murdered the family of the Russian Tsar. However, the rumor persisted that one of the five children of the Tsar survived the bloodbath. In 1920 an unknown woman appeared in Berlin who stated that she was Anastasia , the youngest daughter of the last Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna . In the following years, Anna Anderson, as she called herself, was brought together several times with relatives and acquaintances of the royal family in order to finally clarify her identity. On February 9, 1928, Anna Anderson arrived in New York City at an invitation from Xenija Leeds, who was related to the royal family . After a few months, however, she had fallen out with her hostess and her family so much that she could no longer stay. Until the end of her life, Xenija maintained her claim that the murdered Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanowa and Anna Anderson are identical.

Name in different phases of life

  • 1903–1921 Her Imperial Highness Princess Xenija Georgievna Romanovna
  • 1921–1930 Mrs. Xenija Georgievna Leeds
  • 1946–1965 Mrs. Xenija Georgievna Jud

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Peter Kurth: Anastasia, the last daughter of the Tsar. The secret of Anna Anderson. Lübbe, 1989, ISBN 3-404-11511-2
personal data
SURNAME Romanowa, Xenija Georgievna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Романова, Ксения Георгиевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian nobles, members of the House of Romanow-Holstein-Gottorp
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1965
Place of death Glen Cove , New York