Anastasia of Montenegro
| Princess Anastasia | |||||
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| Duchess of Leuchtenberg Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia |
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| Born |
4 June 1868 Cetinje, Montenegro |
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| Died | 25 November 1935 (aged 67) Cap d'Antibes, France |
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| Burial | St. Michael the Archangel Church (1935–2015) Chapel of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in the Bratsky military cemetery in Moscow (since 2015) |
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| Spouse |
George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg (m. 1889; div. 1906) Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (m. 1907; d. 1929) |
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| Issue |
Sergei Georgievich, 8th Duke of Leuchtenberg Princess Elena Georgievna of Leuchtenberg |
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| House | Petrović-Njegoš | ||||
| Father | Nicholas I of Montenegro | ||||
| Mother | Milena Vukotić | ||||
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| Anastasia Petrović-Njegoš |
Princess Anastasia Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro (4 June 1868 in Cetinje, Montenegro – 25 November 1935 in Cap d'Antibes, France) was the daughter of King Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro (1841–1921) and his wife, Milena Vukotić (1847–1923). Through her second marriage, she became Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaievna Romanova of Russia. She and her sister "Militza" (Princess Milica), having married Russian royal brothers, were known colloquially as the "Montenegrin princesses" during the last days of Imperial Russia, and may have contributed to its downfall by the introduction of Grigori Rasputin to the Empress Alexandra.
Princess Anastasia was born in Cetinje, Montenegro on 4 June 1868, the third child and third daughter of her parents. At birth, her name was Princess Stana Petrovich Njegosh of Montenegro; as of the date of her father's assumption of the title and style of Royal Highness in 1900, she became known as Her Royal Highness Princess Stana Petrovich Njegosh of Montenegro. She retained her childhood name of "Stana" to close relations.
Anastasia was educated at the Smolny Institute with her older sister, Princess Milica.
On 28 August n.s., 1889, at the Imperial Russian Palace of Peterhof, Stana married Prince George Maximilianovich of Leuchtenberg (later the Duke of Leuchtenberg.) The Duke had previously been married and widowed, with one son, Alexander Georgievich, from that prior marriage. The couple had two children before divorcing in St. Petersburg on 15 November 1906.
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