Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia information
Russian royal (1879–1956)
Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich
Portrait, 1907
Born
(1879-05-14)14 May 1879 Tsarskoye Selo, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire
Died
30 October 1956(1956-10-30) (aged 77) Paris, France
Burial
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
Spouse
Mathilde Kschessinska
(m. 1921)
Issue
Prince Vladimir Romanovsky-Krasinsky
House
Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
Father
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich
Mother
Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia (Russian: Андрей Владимирович; 14 May [O.S. 2 May] 1879 – 30 October 1956) was a son of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, a grandson of Emperor Alexander II and a first cousin of Nicholas II, the last Russian emperor.
In 1900, he began an affair with the famous ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska, becoming the third grand duke to fall for her.
Grand Duke Andrei followed a military career and graduated from the Alexandrovskaya Military Law academy in 1905. He occupied different military positions during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II, but with no particular distinction. He became senator in 1911 and was appointed Major General in the Russian Army in 1915. He took part in World War I, but was away from real combat spending most of the conflict at Russia's headquarters or in idle time in Saint Petersburg.
In February 1917, shortly before the fall of the Russian monarchy, Grand Duke Andrei left Saint Petersburg to join his mother in Kislovodsk. He remained in the Caucasus for the next three years. After the October Revolution he was briefly arrested along with his brother, Grand Duke Boris, but they escaped. He departed revolutionary Russia in March 1920, being the last grand duke to leave for exile. In 1921, he married his longtime mistress Mathilde Kschessinska and recognized her son as his. The couple lived in the South of France until 1929 when they moved permanently to Paris, where Kschessinska opened a ballet school. After World War II, Grand Duke Andrei lived under reduced circumstances. Until his death at age 77, he was the last surviving Russian grand duke born in Imperial Russia.
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