Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna
| Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna | |
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| Born |
6 April 1875 Anichkov Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died | 20 April 1960 (aged 85) Hampton Court Palace, United Kingdom |
| Burial | Cimetière de Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France |
| Spouse | Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia |
| Issue |
Irina Alexandrovna, Princess Felix Felixovich Yusupov Prince Andrei Alexandrovich Prince Feodor Alexandrovich Prince Nikita Alexandrovich Prince Dmitry Alexandrovich Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich Prince Vasily Alexandrovich |
| House | Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov |
| Father | Alexander III of Russia |
| Mother | Dagmar of Denmark |
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Ксения Александровна Романова; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1875 – 20 April 1960) was the elder daughter and fourth child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (née Princess Dagmar of Denmark) and the sister of Emperor Nicholas II. She married a cousin, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, with whom she had seven children. She was the mother-in-law of Felix Yusupov and a cousin of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia who, together, killed Grigori Rasputin, holy healer to her nephew, the haemophiliac Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia. During her brother's reign she recorded in her diary and letters increasing concern about his rule. After the fall of the monarchy in February 1917 she fled Russia, eventually settling in the United Kingdom.
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna was born on 6 April 1875 at Anichkov Palace in St. Petersburg. She was the elder daughter among the six children of Alexander III of Russia and his wife, Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (née Princess Dagmar of Denmark).
After the assassination of her paternal grandfather Tsar Alexander II of Russia, when Xenia was six years old, her father Alexander III ascended to the Russian throne in 1881. It was a difficult political time, plagued with terrorist threats and for security reasons Alexander III moved with his family from the Winter Palace to Gatchina Palace. Xenia and her siblings were raised mostly there in relative simplicity. As a child, Xenia was a tomboy and was very shy.
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