Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia
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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 Tsar Alexander III of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (née Princess Dagmar of Denmark) and the sister of Emperor Nicholas II.
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 Grand Duchess Xenia, 1910s | |
| Born | (1875-04-06)6 April 1875 Anichkov Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died | 20 April 1960(1960-04-20) (aged 85) Wilderness House, Hampton Court Palace, Richmond upon Thames, United Kingdom |
| Burial | Cimetière de Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France |
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| House | Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov |
| Father | Alexander III of Russia |
| Mother | Dagmar of Denmark |
She married her father's 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. Her great-grandson Alexis Romanoff has been a head of the Romanov Family since November 2021.