Prince Oleg Konstantinovich was the fourth son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich (KR), born 27 November 1892 (N.S.).
In 1913 he graduated from school and was enrolled as cornet in the Hussars. From the first days of the war he served in the army in East Prussia. Read more ROMANOV FAMILY COUSIN: PRINCE OLEG KONSTANTINOVICH (1892-1914)
Grand Duchess Olga and Grand Duchess Anastasia: the eldest and youngest imperial sisters. At first glance it may seem that the two did not have much in common and did not interact that much, at least not as much as “The Big Pair” did with each other. But that’s not really the case. The two sisters were actually pretty close to each other, and mention each other in their diaries and letters quite often and independently of the other sisters. There are also plenty of photos of just the two sisters together, from which we can see that they were close and spent a lot of time together. They also seemed to do a lot of things with their beloved “Papa”, Nicholas II, without the other sisters – just the two of them, especially they seemed to share the love of skiing and boating, and other physical things. Read more OLGA AND ANASTASIA ROMANOV: ELDEST AND YOUNGEST GRAND DUCHESSES
In the Spring of 1839, the heir to throne of Russia, Tsarevich Alexander Nikolaevich Romanov, visited England and met its new young queen, Victoria. Future Tsar Alexander II was a year older than the unmarried Queen of England, who was only 20 years old. Read more QUEEN VICTORIA AND TSAR ALEXANDER II: WOULD-BE ROMANCE AND MUTUAL DESCENDANTS
The youngest child of Grand Duke Konstantin Romanov (“KR”) and his wife Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mavrikievna (“Mavra”), Princess Vera Konstantinovna Romanov was born in Pavlovsk in 1906. Having lived into 21st century, she was arguably the very last direct Romanov family link to the long gone world of imperial Russia. Princess Vera was a Romanov cousin whose godmother was Empress Alexandra Fedorovna herself.
As a little girl in 1915, she was no doubt traumatized when she witnessed the early death of her father, the esteemed poet “KR”. Little Princess Vera was the one who alerted her mother and others as her father struggled to breathe. Later the family was amazed as to how she was able to open very heavy doors of the study in order to do that. Read more PRINCESS VERA KONSTANTINOVNA: LAST LINK TO IMPERIAL RUSSIA
Born in 1890, Princess Tatiana Konstantinovna was the eldest daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich (KR) and Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mavrikievna, cousins of Tsar Nicholas II. Tatiana Konstantinovna was a good friend to Nicholas II’s two eldest daughters Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana, and the two often mentioned her in their diaries. Read more PRINCESS TATIANA KONSTANTINOVNA: POET’S DAUGHTER
On this page I would like to spotlight a wonderful book about an extended member of the Romanov family. The book had been released a few years ago but for the most part it has flown under the radar. The book I am referring to is Fanny Lear: Love and Scandal in Tsarist Russia by the husband and wife author/translator team Eva and Dan McDonald. You may already be familiar with these two names because the McDonalds also contributed their translations from French to one of my earlier books: Russia’s Last Romanovs: In Their Own Words. Read more GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS KONSTANTINOVICH: HIS AMERICAN MISTRESS
