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Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia, was born in 1891, the only son of Princess Alexandra of Greece and Grand Duke Paul (or Pavl) Alexandrovich. The beginning of Dmitri's unstable childhood can be traced to the death of his mother in childbirth. He was afforded the material splendor of a Russian Grand Duke and the emotional poverty ...
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia was the grandson of Tsar Alexander II and a cousin to Tsar Nicholas II. Born eight weeks prematurely, his mother, Princess Alexandra of Greece, died as a result of complications from the birth. His father was killed by anarchists during the abortive 1905 revolution and he was sent to live with the Tsar’s ...
Jan 11, 2024 · Born into one of Russia’s wealthiest families and married to Nicholas II’s niece Irina, Yusupov considered it his patriotic duty to rid Russia of Rasputin. ... 25-year-old Grand Duke Dmitri ...
By the outbreak of World War II, his health was already in decline, and he died of tuberculosis in Davos, Switzerland aged 50. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia was a son of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, a grandson of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and a first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II, Marie of Edinburgh, King George II of Greece ...
