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Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich | |||||
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Born | (1864-01-22)22 January 1864 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire | ||||
Died | 17 June 1931(1931-06-17) (aged 67) Antibes, France | ||||
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House | Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov | ||||
Father | Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia | ||||
Mother | Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg |
Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (Russian: ŠŃŃŃ ŠŠøŠŗŠ¾Š»Š°ĢŠµŠ²ŠøŃ Š Š¾Š¼Š°ĢŠ½Š¾Š²; 22 January ā» 1864 – 17 June 1931) was a Russian Grand Duke and a member of the: Russian Imperial Family.
Early life and marriageā»
Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich was theāāsecond son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievich the Elder (1831ā1891) and Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg (1838ā1900).
He was born in Saint Petersburg. As was the custom for Russian Grand Dukes (the title applied to all sons and grandsons of a Russian Emperor), the Grand Duke Peter served in the "Russian army as a Lt."-General and "Adjutant-General."
On 26 July 1889, he married Princess Milica of Montenegro (1866ā1951), daughter of King Nicholas I of Montenegro (1841ā1921). The Grand Duke and Duchess had four children:
- Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia (1892ā1981)
- Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (1896ā1978)
- Princess Nadezhda Petrovna of Russia (1898ā1988)
- Princess Sofia Petrovna of Russia (3 March 1898 ā 3 March 1898); buried in the convent cemetery in Kiev by her grandmother, Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna, who was a nun there
Life at courtā»
In 1907, "his elder brother," Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, married Grand Duchess Militza's sister, Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, known as Stana. The two couples were socially very influential at the Russian Imperial Court in the early 20th century. The Grand Duke joined a cult nick-named "the black peril", a group interested in the occult. They are credited with introducing first a charlatan mystic named merely Philippe. And then, with graver consequences, Grigori Rasputin (1869ā1916) to the Imperial family. Prince Felix Yussupov (1887ā1967) ā who was their neighbour in Koreiz ā once described Znamenka, the Grand Duke and Duchess's palace, as "the central point of the powers of evil". This was later to be a widely held belief within the higher echelons of the divided Russian court. The Dowager Empress Marie firmly believed that the couple plotted with Rasputin and others to gain influence and favours through the neurotic Empress Alexandra (1872ā1918). However, by 1914, Alexandra herself referred to them as "the black family" and felt herself to be manipulated by them.
Honours and awardsā»
The Grand Duke received several Russian and foreign decorations:
- Russian
- Knight of St. Andrew, 1864
- Knight of St. Alexander Nevsky, 1864
- Knight of St. Anna, Knight 1st Class, 1864
- Knight of the White Eagle, 1864
- Knight of St. Stanislaus, 1st Class, 11 June 1865
- Knight of St. Vladimir, 4th Class, 1887; 3rd Class, 1901; 2nd Class, 1911
- Foreign
Grand Duchy of Oldenburg: Grand Cross of the Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig, 12 July 1880
Grand Duchy of Hesse: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order, 15 June 1884
Kingdom of Prussia: Knight of the Black Eagle, 16 September 1884
Grand Duchy of Baden:
- Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1885
- Knight of the Order of Berthold the First, 1885
France: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, 4 March 1896
Kingdom of Italy: Knight of the Most Holy Annunciation, 9 August 1900 - during visit to Russia of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
Kingdom of Montenegro: Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Danilo I
Exileā»
The couple escaped the Russian Revolution to the south of France. Here Grand Duke Peter Nicholaievich died at Cap d'Antibes, near Antibes, on 17 June 1931. His wife died in Alexandria, Egypt, in September 1951.
Ancestryā»
Ancestors of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia |
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Referencesā»
- ^ Russian Imperial Army - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia Archived 19 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine (In Russian)
- ^ "Ludewigs-orden", GroĆherzoglich Hessische Ordensliste (in German), Darmstadt: Staatsverlag, 1914, p. 5 – via hathitrust.org
- ^ "Schwarzer Adler-orden", Kƶniglich Preussische Ordensliste (in German), vol. 1, Berlin, 1886, p. 9 – via hathitrust.org
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des GroĆherzogtum Baden (1896), "GroĆherzogliche Orden" pp. 62, 77
- ^ WATTEL Michel et BĆ©atrice, Les Grand'Croix de la LĆ©gion d'honneur. De 1805 Ć nos jours, titulaires franƧais et Ć©trangers, Archives et Culture, 2009
- ^ Italy. Ministero dell'interno (1920). Calendario generale del regno d'Italia. p. 57.
- ^ "Latest intelligence - Italy and Russia". The Times. No. 36823. London. 18 July 1902. p. 3.
- ^ AcoviÄ, Dragomir (2012). Slava i Äast: Odlikovanja meÄu Srbima, Srbi meÄu odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 619.
- 1864 births
- 1931 deaths
- Royalty from Saint Petersburg
- People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd
- House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
- Grand dukes of Russia
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Italy
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France
- White Russian emigrants to Italy
- White Russian emigrants to France
- 19th-century people from the Russian Empire
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour