Prince Kirill Romanovsky-Iskander

Prince Kirill Alexandrovich Romanovsky-Iskander, or Cyril Iskander Romanov (Russian: князь, Кирилл Александрович Романов, tr. knyaz, Kirill Alexandrovich Romanov [ˈkʲirʲɪl ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ rɐˈmanəf]) (5 December 1914 – 1992), or simply Prince Iskander, was one of the last two members of the House of Romanov to remain alive in Russia following the Revolution.

Prince Kirill and his sister Princess Natalia, in Tashkent province, Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan) in 1919
Kirill Alexandrovich Iskander Romanov
Prince Romanovsky-Iskander of Russia
Prince
Romanovsky-Iskander of Russia
Born5 December 1914
Tashkent, Russian Empire
Died1992
Moscow, Russian Federation
Full name
Kirill Alexandrovich Iskander Romanov,
Kirill Nikolaievich Androsov
HouseHouse of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
FatherAlexander Nikolaevich Romanov, Prince Romanovsky-Iskander
MotherOlga Iosifovna Rogowska
ReligionEastern Orthodox

He was the son of Prince Romanovsky-Iskander (15 November 1887 N.S. – 26 January 1957), né Alexander Nikolaevich Romanov, and his first wife, Olga Iosifovna Rogowska. He was a grandson of Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich, the disgraced grandson of Tsar Nicholas I; thus, Kirill was a patrilineal great-great-grandson of Nicholas I.

Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaevich's son, Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich, was exiled to Central Asia in disgrace for stealing his mother's diamonds. Grand Duke Nicholas established a palace in Tashkent and lived in grand style where he sired a son, whom Tsar Alexander III (his great-uncle) granted the title Prince Iskander (Iskander was the Arabic form of Alexander[1]). This prince, in turn, fathered the Prince Iskander.

He was born in Tashkent, a member of the Constantinovichi branch of the Russian Imperial Family. He had a sister, Princess Natalia Romanovskaya-Iskander (1917 - 1999). Their parents, who had been married since 1912, separated and in 1924 Kirill and his sister moved with their mother to Moscow (first moved to Plyushchikha Street, later to Arbat), where Olga remarried to Nicholas Androsov.

Kirill's stepfather adopted him and his sister so Prince Iskander was renamed Kirill Nikolaievich Androsov (Russian: Кирилл Николаевич Андросов). His father remarried also, to Natalia Hanykova (30 December 1893 – 20 April 1982) in 1930 in Paris.

After the Russian Revolution, Kirill and his sister Natalia were the only two Romanov descendants in the male line in the USSR; the rest either left or were killed. They lived their entire lives in the USSR.[2] His second cousin is Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark[3] and of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Styles of
Prince
Romanovsky-Iskander of Russia
Reference styleHis Highness
Spoken styleYour Highness
Alternative styleSir

Ancestry

References

  1. Behind the Name
  2. Interview with Eleonora Dostal-Oruç (1999-2000's archive) Sabah News 29 January 2000, retrieved 19 June 2011.
  3. About the family by Andrei Voznesensky Archived 2011-08-15 at the Wayback Machine includes Князь Михаил Греческий "Биография Великого Князя Николая Константиновича" and О.Лунькова "Княжна на мотоцикле".
  • Лунькова, Ольга (27 August 1996). Княжна на мотоцикле. Огонёк (Blog (журнал)) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 28 September 2011.
  • Нагибин, Ю. М. (1996). Юрий Кувалдин: общая редакция, составление, послесловие, указатель имён. Книжный сад. pp. 624–625. ISBN 5-85676-043-3. Дневник. Archived from the original on 2013-03-23.
  • thePeerage.com
  • "Some of the books, about the family, for the Russian higher education associations" (in Russian).
  • C. Arnold McNaughton, The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy, in 3 volumes (London, U.K.: Garnstone Press, 1973) ISBN 0-8129-0280-7, ISBN 978-0-8129-0280-8
Prince Kirill Romanovsky-Iskander
Cadet branch of the House of Oldenburg
Born: 5 December 1914 Died: 1992
Russian royalty
Titles in pretence
Preceded by
Alexander Nikolaievich,
Prince Romanosky-Iskander
 TITULAR 
Prince Romanovsky-Iskander of Russia
1957 – 1992
Reason for succession failure:
1917 revolution
Succeeded by
Natalia Alexandrovna,
Princess Romanovskaya-Iskander
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