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Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna of Russia

Princess Leonida Bagration
Grand Duchess of Russia
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Born (1914-10-06)6 October 1914
Tiflis, Russian Empire (now Georgia)
Died 23 May 2010(2010-05-23) (aged 95)
Madrid, Spain
Burial 2 June 2010
Grand Ducal Mausoleum, St. Petersburg
Spouse Sumner Moore Kirby
(m. 1934; div. 1937)

Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia
(m. 1948; his death 1992)
Issue Helen Louise Kirby, Countess Dvinskaya
Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia
House Bagration-Mukhrani
Father Prince George Bagration of Mukhrani
Mother Helena Złotnicka h. Nowina
Religion Eastern Orthodox Church

Leonida Georgievna Romanova, Grand Duchess of Russia (Russian: Леонида Георгиевна Романова; née Princess Leonida Georgievna Bagration-Mukhraneli (Georgian: ლეონიდა გიორგის ასული ბაგრატიონი-მუხრანელი); 6 October [O.S. 23 September] 1914 – 23 May 2010) was the consort of Vladimir Kirillovich, Grand Duke of Russia, a pretender to the Russian throne. She was an active and outspoken advocate of the claims advanced by Vladimir and their daughter, Maria Vladimirovna, to be accepted as the legitimate Heads of the Romanov dynasty and de jure sovereigns of the Russian Empire.

Born on 6 October 1914, in Tiflis, Georgia, Russian Empire as Princess Leonida Bagration of Mukhrani, she was a daughter of Prince George Bagration of Mukhrani and his Polish wife Helena Sigismundovna, née Nowina Złotnicka (1886–1979). She descended patrilineally from former Kings of Georgia. Her mother’s family belonged to the untitled Polish aristocracy, although one of Leonida's two lines of descent from Georgia's penultimate king Erekle II (Heraclius II) is through her mother, a descendant of the king's daughter, Princess Anastasia, who married an Eristavi prince. The other ancestral line derives through the marriage of another of the king's daughters, Princess Tamara, to Ioane Bagrationi, 18th Prince of Mukhrani.


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