Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov (Дмитри Павлович Романов) (September 18, 1891 – March 5, 1941) was a Russian nobleman, one of the few Romanovs to escape execution by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. He is known for being involved in the murder of the mystic peasant faith healer Grigori Rasputin, whom he felt held undue sway over Tsar Nicholas II. September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The House of Romanov (Рома́нов, pronounced Ro-MAH-nof), the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled Muscovy and the Russian Empire for five generations from 1613 to 1762. ... Bolshevik Party Meeting. ... The phrase Russian Revolution can refer to three specific events in the history of Imperial Russia. ... Grigori Rasputin Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Russian: Григо́рий Ефи́мович Распу́тин) (January 10, 1869 – December 16, 1916 (O.S.)) was a Russian mystic with an influence in the later days of Russias Romanov dynasty. ... Tsar (Bulgarian цар, Russian царь,  listen; often spelled Czar or Tzar and sometimes Csar or Zar in English), was the title used for the autocratic rulers of the First and Second Bulgarian Empires since 913, in Serbia in the middle of the 14th century, and in Russia from 1547 to... Nicholas II of Russia - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...

Romanov was born at Ilyinskoe near Moscow, and died at Davos. He was the son of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich and a grandson of Alexander II of Russia by Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. Thus a second cousin of Nicholas II of Russia. Dmitri Pavlovich's mother, Princess Alexandra of Greece was a daughter of George I of Greece and his Queen consort Olga Konstantinova of Russia. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov, around 1910 (image found several times around the web, among others at http://members. ... Moscow (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronunciation: Moskvá) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ... Davos viewed from air Davos (population 13,000) is a town in eastern Switzerland, in the canton of Graubünden, on the Landwasser River. ... Alexander II (1818-1881) Alexander (Aleksandr) II (Russian: Александр II Николаевич) (April 17, 1818–March 13, 1881) was the Emperor (tsar) of Russia from March 2, 1855 until his assassination. ... Marie of Hesse Princess Maximilienne Wilhelmine Marie of Hesse and the Rhine ( 8 August 1824- 8 June 1880) was a princess of Grand Ducal Hesse and, as Marie Alexandrovna, Empress consort of Alexander II of Russia. ... Alexandra of Greece (25 March 1921 - 30 January 1993) was the wife of the last King of Yugoslavia, Peter II. She was born in Athens in Greece, after the death of her father. ... George I (December 24, 1845 - March 18, 1913) was King of the Hellenes (Greece) from 1863 to 1913 He was born in Copenhagen, the second son of King Christian IX of Denmark and the brother of Alexandra of Denmark (consort of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom). ... Olga, Queen of Greece Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna of Russia (3 September 1851 - 18 June 1926) was the queen consort of King George I of Greece. ...

His mother died at his birth, and Dmitri and his sister Maria Pavlovna were mostly raised by their uncle and aunt, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and his wife, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, the elder sister of the tsarina. When his uncle, then governor of Moscow, was murdered in 1905 by anarchists, young Dmitri was sent to live with the tsar and his family. At some stage, there was even speculation whether he might be made heir instead of the hemophiliac tsarevich by marrying the tsar's eldest daughter, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia. A Tsaritsa (Цари́ца), also called tsarina, czarina, or czaritsa, was the title of Tsars wife or a female autocratic ruler(monarch) of Russia or Bulgaria. ... Moscow (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronunciation: Moskvá) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ... Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (1895-1918) Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (Olga Nikolaevna Romanova) (In Russian Великая Княжна Ольга Николаевна), also known as Olishka (November 15, 1895 - July 17, 1918), was the eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. Olga was the most intelligent of Nikolai IIs children. ...

As usual in his circles at the time, Dmitri Pavlovich joined a Guards regiment as an officer. He is reputed to have been a very good equestrian, and competed in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, coming seventh. Before World War I, he instigated the idea of national Russian sports competition, the very beginning of what under Soviet rule became the Spartakiad. The Stockholm City Hall Stockholm  listen is the capital and the largest city of Sweden. ... For months before the Olympic Games, runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Spartakiad initially was the name of an international sports event that the Soviet Union attempted to oppose the Olympics. ...

Throughout his life, Dmitri Pavlovich was known as a great womaniser. Among his lovers was Pauline Fairfax Potter, an American fashion designer and writer. His most notable affairs were with Natasha, morganatic wife of his cousin Mikhail, and in the early 1920s with Coco Chanel; however, the one (reputed) affair that had the most influence on the course of his life and that effectively gave him his place in history was with another man: cross-dressing and bisexual Prince Felix Yusupov, with whom Dmitri Pavlovich made quite a scandal in the winter of 1912/1913, and with whom he was, in 1916, involved in the murder of Grigori Rasputin. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov, around 1910 (image found several times around the web, among others at http://members. ... Pauline de Rothschild (née Pauline Potter, Paris, France, December 31, 1908 - Santa Barbara, California, 1976) was a fashion icon and tastemaker who also was known as a writer, a fashion designer, and a translator of both Elizabethan poetry and the plays of Christopher Fry. ... Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (August 19, 1883 – January 10, 1971) was a pioneering French couturier whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her arguably the most important figure in the history of 20th-century fashion design. ... Prince Felix Yusupov (Феликс Феликсович Юсупов) (March 23, 1887 – September 27, 1967), (variously transliterated from Russian as Yussupov, Yossopov, Iusupov, Youssoupov, or as Feliks, Graf Sumarrokow-Elston (граф Сумароков-Эльстон)), was a Russian nobleman best known for murdering Grigori Rasputin, the mystic peasant faith healer whom Yusupov and other Russian... Grigori Rasputin Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Russian: Григо́рий Ефи́мович Распу́тин) (January 10, 1869 – December 16, 1916 (O.S.)) was a Russian mystic with an influence in the later days of Russias Romanov dynasty. ...

Older sources (among them Felix's own memoirs) always maintained that the murder of Rasputin was Felix's own idea, and Dmitri was only involved because he owned a car that could move unimpeded through the strictly controlled city of St. Petersburg at wartime due to its imperial standard. Newer research, particularly that of Edvard Radsinsky in his book The Rasputin Files, has postulated the idea that the murder originated with Dmitri, and that he was likely to have fired the shot that ultimately stopped the dying Rasputin from escaping. It is theorized that the story subsequently told by the conspirators was concocted to protect Dmitri from a stain that would endanger his chances of succeeding to the throne of Russia. Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland...

As a direct result of his involvement in the murder, Dmitri Pavlovich was sent to the Persian front, which ultimately saved his life &mdah; most of his relatives were executed by the Bolsheviks, even his 16-year-old morganatic half-brother Vladimir Paley, but he himself escaped, with British help, via Teheran and Bombay to London. Iran (historically Persia) (Persian: ایران) is a Middle Eastern country located in Southwest Asia. ... Bolshevik Party Meeting. ... Tehran (also spelled Teheran) (تهران in Persian), population 8,000,000 (metropolitan: 10,000,000), is the capital of Iran and one of the major world cities. ... This article or section should be merged with Mumbai Mumbai (previously known as Bombay) is the worlds most populous conurbation, and is the sixth most populous agglomeration in the world. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben Tower Bridge at night A red double-decker bus crosses Piccadilly Circus. ...

In London in 1919, he met Felix Yusupov again, but they soon fell out — officially over Felix's open gloating in the press of having killed Rasputin, which would endanger Dmitri's chances of a succession to the throne (still thought possible at that stage) by mere association. According to Felix's memoirs, the real reason for their estrangement was rather that Dmitri did not at all believe restoration of the Russian monarchy was possible, but some self-serving elements around him tried to keep up appearances, and elbowed the dangerously disreputable Felix out. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov in exile in the 1920s(image found several times around the web, among others at http://www. ... Prince Felix Yusupov (Феликс Феликсович Юсупов) (March 23, 1887 – September 27, 1967), (variously transliterated from Russian as Yussupov, Yossopov, Iusupov, Youssoupov, or as Feliks, Graf Sumarrokow-Elston (граф Сумароков-Эльстон)), was a Russian nobleman best known for murdering Grigori Rasputin, the mystic peasant faith healer whom Yusupov and other Russian...

Dmitri Pavlovich's sister Marie had, like many aristocratic Russians in exile, found a niche for herself in the rising Paris fashion industry by founding a business called Kitmir that specialised in bead and sequin embroidery and did much work for Chanel. (Dmitri himself found work as a Champagne salesman.) This way, Dmitri met Coco Chanel, eleven years his elder just like Natasha had been, with whom he conducted a brief affair in 1921. Through Dmitri and Marie's contacts in the industry, Chanel met perfumers in Grasse, which finally led to the creation of the famed Chanel No 5 perfume — involvement in the creation of which is Dmitri's second claim to historic importance. Chanel is a line of womens dress suits, perfumes, and colognes. ... The word Champagne can have one of several meanings when stated alone. ... Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (August 19, 1883 – January 10, 1971) was a pioneering French couturier whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her arguably the most important figure in the history of 20th-century fashion design. ... Grasse is a town in southeast France, it is a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes département, on the French Riviera. ...

Dmitri married an American heiress, Audrey Emery, in 1927, procuring for her the insubstantial title of Princess Ilyinskaya from his cousin Kyril for her so the match would be less unequal. The two had a son, Paul Ilyinsky, who later in life became Mayor of Palm Beach, Florida, and thus the only Romanov descendant known to have held elected public office. They were divorced in 1938. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov with his wife Audrea Emery in the 1920s (image found several times around the web, among others at http://www. ... Palm Beach is a town located in Palm Beach County, Florida, 65 miles north of Miami. ... State nickname: Sunshine State, Everglade State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush Official languages English Area 170,451 km² (22nd)  - Land 137,374 km²  - Water 30,486 km² (17. ...

Also during the 1930s, Dmitri was embroiled with the somewhat fascist Young Russian movement around Alexander Kazem-Bek, who was later found out to have been a possible Soviet agent provocateur — a thoroughly dishonourable affair. However, Dmitri reputedly rebuked later advances from Hitler to lead exiled Russian nobles within the German army against the Bolsheviks with the firm statement that nothing would induce him to fight against fellow Russians. However, at that time Dmitri was in no condition to fight at all any more. Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: (СССР)  listen?; tr. ... An agent provocateur (plural: agents provocateurs) is a person assigned to provoke unrest, violence, debate, or argument by or within a group while acting as a member of the group but covertly representing the interests of another. ... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ...

Despite athletic interests, Dmitri Pavlovich's health had always been somewhat frail, and in the 1930s, his chronic tuberculosis became acute and necessitated extended stays at a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, where he died from acute uremia following complications after having been pronounced cured, in early 1942. Rumours that either the Bolsheviks finally got him (or that Hitler had taken his firm "no" badly) abounded, but soon lost relevance in the general clamour and mayhem of World War II and cannot be considered to ever have been founded on anything resembling fact. Tuberculous lungs show up on an X-ray image Tuberculosis is an infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (miliary TB), genitourinary system, bones and joints. ... Davos viewed from air Davos (population 13,000) is a town in eastern Switzerland, in the canton of Graubünden, on the Landwasser River. ... Uremia is a toxic condition resulting from renal failure, when kidney function is compromised and urea, a waste product normally excreted in the urine, is retained in the blood. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air. ...

After the War, Dmitri was reburied in the palace chapel on the island of Mainau in Lake Constance in southern Germany as a favour to his sister Marie, as her son Count Lennart Bernadotte lived there. Mainau is an island in Lake Constance. ... Lake Constance (German Bodensee, also known as Schwäbisches Meer (informally) and sometimes written Lake of Constance) is a lake on the Rhine between Germany, Switzerland and Austria. ... The House of Bernadotte, the current Royal House of the Kingdom of Sweden, has reigned since 1818. ...