Princess Nadejda Petrovna | |
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Nadezhda Petrovna and her brother Roman Petrovich (1917)
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Born |
Dulber, Russian Empire |
3 March 1898
Died | 21 April 1988 Chantilly, France |
(aged 90)
Spouse | Prince Nicholas Orlov (m. 1917; div. 1940) |
Issue |
Princess Irina Nikolaïevna Orlova Princess Xenia Nikolaïevna Orlova |
House | Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov |
Father | Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia |
Mother | Princess Milica of Montenegro |
Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia (Russian: Надежда Петровна; 3 March 1898 – 21 April 1988) was the third child of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia and his wife Grand Duchess Militza.
Nadejda was engaged before the outbreak of World War I to Prince Oleg Constantinovich of Russia, who was killed in action. She married Prince Nicholas Vladimirovich Orlov (1891–1961) in the Crimea in April 1917. They were among the Romanovs who escaped the Russian Revolution in 1919 aboard the British ship the HMS Marlborough. Their baby daughter Princess Irina Orlova, born in March 1918, was the youngest passenger aboard the ship.
The Orlovs had two daughters :
Princess Nadejda divorced in 1940. She died in Chantilly, France in 1988. Her daughters left descendants.