Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia explained

Princess Nadezhda Petrovna
Father:Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia
Mother:Princess Milica of Montenegro
House:Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
Issue:Princess Irina Nikolaïevna Orlova
Princess Xenia Nikolaïevna Orlova
Birth Date:3 March 1898
Birth Place:Dulber, Russian Empire
Death Place:Chantilly, France

Princess Nadezhda Petrovna of Russia (Russian: Надежда Петровна; 3 March 1898 – 21 April 1988) was the third child of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia and his wife, the former Princess Milica of Montenegro.

Marriages and children

Nadezhda was engaged before the outbreak of World War I to Prince Oleg Constantinovich of Russia, who was killed in action. She married Prince Nicholas Vladimirovich Orlov (1891–1961) in the Crimea in April 1917. They were among the Romanovs who escaped the Russian Revolution in 1919 aboard the British ship . Their baby daughter Princess Irina Orlova, born in March 1918, was the youngest passenger aboard the ship.[1]

The Orlovs had two daughters:

Princess Nadezhda divorced in 1940. She died in Chantilly, France in 1988. Her daughters left descendants.[2]

Honours

References

Notes and References

  1. Zeepvat (2004), pp. 203, 212
  2. Willis, The Romanovs in the 21st Century, p. 165
  3. Willis, The Romanovs in the 21st Century, p. 166
  4. Web site: SAINTANNA.RU | Св. Екатерины . 2017-06-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120313050458/http://www.saintanna.ru/?lang=rus&id=48 . 2012-03-13 .