Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia

Infobox Russian Royalty|prince
name = Andrei Alexandrovich
title =Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia


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imperial house = House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
father =Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia
mother =Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia
spouse = Elisabetha Ruffo
Nadine Sylvia Ada McDougall
issue =Princess Xenia Andreevna
Prince Michael Andreevich
Prince Andrew Andreevich
Princess Olga Andreevna
date of birth =Birth date|1897|1|24
place of birth = Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
date of death =Death date and age|1981|5|8|1897|1|24
place of death = Faversham, England, United Kingdom
place of burial=|

Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia (24 January 1897 - 8 May 1981) was a member of the Imperial Family of Russia.

Biography

He was born in Saint Petersburg the second child but first son of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. [cite news | title = Foreign Notes of Interest. | pages = 2 | publisher = New York Times | date = 1897-01-26 ] Although a grandson of Emperor Alexander III through his mother he was not entitled to the title Grand Duke of Russia because he was only a great-grandson of Emperor Nicholas I in the male line through his father. Despite being only a Prince of Russia, he received a 21-gun salute at birth (which was usually reserved for Grand Dukes, with a 15-gun salute for Princes of Russia) at the insistence of his grandmother The Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna.cite news | title = Princess Xenia of Russia | publisher = The Daily Telegraph | date = 2001-08-23 | url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=%2Fnews%2F2000%2F11%2F13%2Fdb03.xml | accessdate =2008-02-05 ]

During the Russian Revolution Prince Andrei was imprisoned along with his parents and grandmother the Dowager Empress at Dulber, in the Crimea. He escaped the fate of a number of his Romanov cousins who were murdered by the Bolsheviks when he was freed by German troops in 1918. He left Russia in December 1918 abroad the Royal Navy ship HMS Forsythe with his father to attend the Paris Peace Conference.

In 1949 he moved into Provender an ancient house in Faversham, Kent owned by the family of his second wife and famous for being a hunting lodge of Edward, the Black Prince. [cite web | title = Provender | publisher = The Faversham Website | url = http://www.faversham.org/pages/standard.aspx?i_PageID=151844 | accessdate =2008-02-05 ] Prince Andrei was the protector of the Sovereign Order of the Orthodox Knights Hospitaller of St. John of Jerusalem. [cite web | publisher = World Organisation of Natural Medicine | title=OSJ Endorsment | url =http://www.wonmfoundation.org/endorsements.html | accessdate =2008-05-27 ]

He died at Provender on 8 May 1981.

Marriages and children

Prince Andrei was married to Donna Elisabetha Ruffo (1886-1940) at Yalta on 12 June 1918 the daughter to Fabrizio Ruffo, Duke of Sasso-Ruffo and they had three children.cite web | last = Lundy | first = Darryl | title = Andrei Aleksandrovich Romanov, Prince of Russia | publisher = The Peerage | url = http://www.thepeerage.com/p10221.htm#i102204 | accessdate = 2008-02-05]

*HH Princess Xenia Andreevna (1919-2000)
*HH Prince Michael Andreevich (1920-2008)
*HH Prince Andrew Andreevich (b. 1923)

His first wife was killed during the Second World War and he married secondly to Nadine Sylvia Ada McDougall (1908-2000) at Norton, Kent on 21 September 1942 and they had one daughter.

*HH Princess Olga Andreevna (b. 1950)

Ancestry

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1= 1. Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia
2= 2. Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia
3= 3. Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia
4= 4. Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia
5= 5. Princess Cecilie of Baden
6= 6. Alexander III of Russia
7= 7. Princess Dagmar of Denmark
8= 8. Nicholas I of Russia
9= 9. Princess Charlotte of Prussia
10= 10. Leopold I, Grand Duke of Baden
11= 11. Princess Sofia of Sweden
12= 12. Alexander II of Russia
13= 13. Princess Marie of Hesse
14= 14. Christian IX of Denmark
15= 15. Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
16= 16. Paul I of Russia
17= 17. Princess Sophia Dorothea of Wuerttemberg
18= 18. Frederick William III of Prussia
19= 19. Princess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
20= 20. Karl Friedrich of Baden
21= 21. Luise Karoline Geyer von Geyersberg
22= 22. Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
23= 23. Princess Frederica of Baden
24= 24. Nicholas I of Russia
25= 25. Princess Charlotte of Prussia
26= 26. Ludwig II, Grand Duke of Hesse
27= 27. Wilhelmina, Grand Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt
28= 28. Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
29= 29. Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse
30= 30. Prince William of Hesse
31= 31. Princess Charlotte of Denmark

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