Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia
Born	September 18, 1891(1891-09-18) St. Petersburg, Russia
Died	March 5, 1941 (aged 49), aged 49 Davos, Switzerland
Spouse	Audrey Emery
Parents	Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia and Alexandra Georgievna of Greece

Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, of the Imperial House of Romanov (Дмитрий Павлович Романов) (September 18, 1891 – March 5, 1941) was a Russian imperial dynast, one of the few Romanovs to escape murder by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. He is known for being involved in the murder of the mystic peasant faith healer Grigori Rasputin, who he felt held undue sway over Tsar Nicholas II. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov, around 1910 (image found several times around the web, among others at http://members. ... Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov, around 1910 (image found several times around the web, among others at http://members. ... is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and... This article is about the day. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... Davos viewed from air Davos is a town in eastern Switzerland, in the canton of Graubünden, on the Landwasser River. ... Anna Audrey Emery (4 January 1904 - 25 November 1971) was an American heiress and socialite who was the wife of one of the last Russian Grand Dukes. ... His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (Павел Александрович) (October 3, 1860 N.S.–January 24, 1919 N.S.) was the eighth child of Tsar Alexander II of Russia by his first wife Maria Alexandrovna of Hesse. ... Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (Александра Георгиевна), née Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark (August 30, 1870–September 24, 1891) was daughter of George I of Greece and Olga, Queen of Greece herself daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich of Russia. ... is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about the day. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... The House of Romanov (Рома́нов, pronounced ) was the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled the country for five generations from 1613 to 1761. ... Bolshevik Party Meeting. ... The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a series of political and social upheavals in Russia, involving first the overthrow of the tsarist autocracy, and then the overthrow of the liberal and moderate-socialist Provisional Government, resulting in the establishment of Soviet power under the control of the Bolshevik party. ... Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (or Grigori Yefimovich Novyh) (Russian: ) (January 22 [O.S. January 10] 1869–December 29 [O.S. December 16] 1916) was a Russian mystic who is perceived as having influenced the latter days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, his wife the Tsarina Alexandra, and their only son... Tsar (Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian цар, Russian  , in scientific transliteration respectively car and car ), occasionally spelled Czar or Tzar and sometimes Csar or Zar in English, is a Slavonic term designating certain monarchs. ... Nicholas II redirects here. ...

Biography

Early life

Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich 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. Thus a first cousin of Nicholas II of Russia. Dmitri Pavlovich's mother, Alexandra Georgievna of Greece was a daughter of George I of Greece and his Queen consort Olga Konstantinovna of Russia. For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ... Davos viewed from air Davos is a town in eastern Switzerland, in the canton of Graubünden, on the Landwasser River. ... His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (Павел Александрович) (October 3, 1860 N.S.–January 24, 1919 N.S.) he was the eighth child of Tsar Alexander II by his first wife Maria Alexandrovna of Hesse. ... Alexander (Aleksandr) II Nikolaevich (Russian: Александр II Николаевич) (Moscow, 29 April 1818 – 13 March 1881 in St. ... Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (Александра Георгиевна), née Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark (August 30, 1870–September 24, 1891) was daughter of George I of Greece and Olga, Queen of Greece herself daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich of Russia. ... George I, King of the Hellenes (Greek: Γεώργιος A, Βασιλεύς των Ελλήνων) (December 24, 1845 – March 18, 1913) was King of the Hellenes (Greece) from 1863 to 1913. ... Olga, Queen of Greece Olga Konstantinovna of Russia later Queen Olga of Greece (in Russian Великая Княжна Ольга Константиновна in Greek Βασίλισσα Όλγα της Ελλάδος) (3 September 1851 - 18 June 1926), was the queen consort of King George I of Greece and briefly in 1920, Regent of Greece. ...

His mother died at his birth, and Dmitri and his sister Maria were mostly raised by their uncle and aunt, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia 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. Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, known as Maria Pavlovna the Younger (In Russian Великая Княгиня Мария Павловна) (April 6/April 18, 1890 - December 13, 1958) was the daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich and Alexandra Georgievna of Greece. ... Sergei Alexandrovich Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov (April 29, 1857 - February 4, 1905, Old Style) was the seventh child and fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his first Empress-consort Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. ... HIH The Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (Russian: ), (1 November 1864 - 18 July 1918) was a German princess of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse and was the wife of the Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse... A Tsarina, also spelled czarina, is an English arrangement of Russian and Bulgarian word цари́ца (tsaritsa or czaritsa), which was the title of Tsars wife or a female autocratic ruler (monarch) of Russia or Bulgaria. ... For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ... Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (Olga Nikolaevna Romanova) (in Russian Великая Княжна Ольга Николаевна; November 15 [O.S. November 3] 1895 – July 17, 1918) was the eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last autocratic ruler of the Russian Empire, and of Empress Alexandra of Russia. ...

As usual in his circle 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 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were held in 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Spartakiad initially was the name of an international sports event that the Soviet Union attempted to oppose the Olympics. ...

Adulthood

Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov, around 1910.

Throughout his life, Dmitri Pavlovich was known as a great womaniser. Among his lovers was Pauline Fairfax Potter, an American fashion designer and writer. He also temporarily pursued the Duchess of Marlborough (the American-born Consuelo Vanderbilt), who was separated, and later divorced, from the Duke of Marlborough. The fact that Dmitri Pavlovich was both 16 years the Duchess' junior, and economically challenged, did not assist his case. 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. ... 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. ... World War I postcard showing Princess Brasova. ... A morganatic marriage is a type of marriage which can be contracted in certain countries, usually between persons of unequal social rank (unebenbürtig in German), which prevents the passage of the husbands titles and privileges to the wife and any children born of the marriage. ... Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch of Russia (1878-1918) Grand Duke Michael of Russia, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Romanov (Russian: Михаи́л Александрович Рома́нов) (St. ... Gabrielle Bonheur Coco Chanel (August 19, 1883 – January 10, 1971)[1] was a pioneering French fashion designer 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. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (or Grigori Yefimovich Novyh) (Russian: ) (January 22 [O.S. January 10] 1869–December 29 [O.S. December 16] 1916) was a Russian mystic who is perceived as having influenced the latter days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, his wife the Tsarina Alexandra, and their only son...

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...

As a direct result of his involvement in the murder, Dmitri Pavlovich was sent to the Persian front, which ultimately saved his life; most of his relatives were executed by the Bolsheviks, including his father, his Aunt Elizabeth, the only mother he had ever known, and his morganatic half-brother Vladimir Paley, but he himself escaped, with British help, via Teheran and Bombay to London. Motto Esteqlāl, āzādÄ«, jomhÅ«rÄ«-ye eslāmÄ« 1(Persian) Independence, freedom, Islamic Republic (introduced 1979) Anthem SorÅ«d-e MellÄ«-e Īrān Â² Capital (and largest city) Tehran Official languages Persian Demonym Iranian Government Islamic Republic  -  Supreme Leader  -  President Unification  -  Unified by Cyrus the Great 559 BCE... Bolshevik Party Meeting. ... Russian poet, born in Saint Petersburg on January 9, 1897. ... 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. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Outside Russia

Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov in exile in the 1920s.

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. ... Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov in exile in the 1920s(image found several times around the web, among others at http://www. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

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. Not to be confused with Channel. ... Champagne is often consumed as part of a celebration Champagne is a sparkling wine produced by inducing the in-bottle secondary fermentation of wine to effect carbonation. ... Gabrielle Bonheur Coco Chanel (August 19, 1883 – January 10, 1971)[1] was a pioneering French fashion designer 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. ... Grasse (Provençal Occitan: Grassa in classical norm or Grasso in Mistralian norm) is a town and episcopal see in southeast France, it is a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes département (of which it is a sous-préfecture), on the French Riviera. ... Chanel No. ...

Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov with his wife Audrey Emery in the 1920s.

Dmitri married an American heiress, Audrey Emery, in 1927, procuring for her the insubstantial title of Princess Romanovskaya-Ilyinskaya and the style of Serene Highness from his cousin Cyril for her as the marriage officially was regarded as unequal. The two had a son, HSH Prince Paul Romanovsky-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. ... 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. ... Anna Audrey Emery (4 January 1904 - 25 November 1971) was an American heiress and socialite who was the wife of one of the last Russian Grand Dukes. ... Serene Highness (acronym HSH) – His Serene Highness or Her Serene Highness. ... Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch of Russia, (Kirill Vladimirovitch Romanov) (October 12 (N.S.), 1876—October 12, 1938) was a member of the Russian Royal Family. ... His Serenity Prince Paul Romanovsky-Ilyinsky was born in 1928 in Ilyinskoe as the only child of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia and Audrey Emery. ... Being largely seasonal, downtown Palm Beachs streets are virtually vacant in the summer. ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Largest metro area Miami metropolitan area Area  Ranked 22nd  - Total 65,795[1] sq mi (170,304[1] km²)  - Width 361 miles (582 km)  - Length 447 miles (721 km)  - % water 17. ...

Also during the 1930s, Dmitri was embroiled with the somewhat fascist Young Russian (in Russian: Союз Младороссов) movement around Alexander Kazembek, 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 Mladorossi (Soyuz Mladorossov, in Russian: Союз Младороссов) was a political group of Russian emigre monarchists (mostly living in Europe) who advocated a hybrid of Russian monarchy and the Soviet system, best evidenced by their motto Tsar and the Soviets. The organization started in 1923, as the Union of Young... Alexander Lvovich Kazembek, often spelled Kazem-Bek or Kasem-Beg (Russian: Александр Львович Казембек or Казем-Бек, French: Alexandre Kasem-Beg) (15 February [O.S. 2 February] 1902, Kazan – 21 February 1977, Moscow), was a Russian emigré and political activist, and founder of the Mladorossi. ... “CCCP” redirects here. ... 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. ...

Death

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. 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. Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or TuBerculosis) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria, mainly Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ... Davos viewed from air Davos 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. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

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 owned the property there. Mainau is an island in Lake Constance (on the south shore of the Überlinger See, near the city of Constance), at approximately 47°42′N 9°12′E. The owner of the island is the Swedish Count Bernadotte, former Royal Prince of Sweden and Duke of Smalandia. ... For other uses, see Lake Constance, New Zealand. ... Lennart Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg, c. ...

References

• Perry, John Curtis and Pleshakov, Constantine, The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga. New York, 1999.
• Crawford, Rosemary and Donald, Michael and Natasha. London, 1997.
• Radzinsky, Edvard, Rasputin: The Last Word. London, 2000.
• Youssoupoff, Prince Félix, Mémoires. Paris 1990 (reprint).