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VERA: Princess of the Imperial Blood Vera Konstantinovna
Princess of the Imperial Blood Vera Konstantinovna (1906- 2001), was the youngest child and daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna.
Vera was a second cousin of Emperor Nicholas II, and a childhood playmate of his younger children. During World War I, she lost her father and brother, and during the Russian Revolution, three of her brothers were murdered by the Bolsheviks.
At age twelve, she escaped revolutionary Russia, fleeing with her mother and brother George to Sweden. She spent the rest of her long life in exile, first in Western Europe and from the 1950s in the United States.
In the last years of her life, the Supreme Monarchist Council considered her the Empress of Russia, after whose death there were no heirs to the Russian throne.
Vera was the only Romanov who remembered pre-revolutionary life and her legendary relatives. She was a living embodiment of the best traditions of the House of Romanov, enjoyed great respect and respect in the circles of the Russian emigration.
Princess Vera died on 11 January 2001, at the age of 95. She was buried next to her brother Prince George Konstantinovich at the cemetery of the Russian Orthodox Monastery of Novo-Diveevo in Nanuet, New York.
Includes more than 75 black and white photos!
Vera was a second cousin of Emperor Nicholas II, and a childhood playmate of his younger children. During World War I, she lost her father and brother, and during the Russian Revolution, three of her brothers were murdered by the Bolsheviks.
At age twelve, she escaped revolutionary Russia, fleeing with her mother and brother George to Sweden. She spent the rest of her long life in exile, first in Western Europe and from the 1950s in the United States.
In the last years of her life, the Supreme Monarchist Council considered her the Empress of Russia, after whose death there were no heirs to the Russian throne.
Vera was the only Romanov who remembered pre-revolutionary life and her legendary relatives. She was a living embodiment of the best traditions of the House of Romanov, enjoyed great respect and respect in the circles of the Russian emigration.
Princess Vera died on 11 January 2001, at the age of 95. She was buried next to her brother Prince George Konstantinovich at the cemetery of the Russian Orthodox Monastery of Novo-Diveevo in Nanuet, New York.
Includes more than 75 black and white photos!
148 pages, Paperback
Published October 25, 2021
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July 22, 2023
Princess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia was born on 24 April 1906 as the daughter of Grand Duke Konstantine Konstantinovich of Russia and his wife, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna (born Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg). She had six brothers and one surviving sister.
She grew up in the splendour of Imperial Russia and was just eight years old when the First World War broke out. During the war, her father died of a heart attack in her presence, and her brother Prince Oleg was killed in action. Three other brothers were killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, alongside Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. Her mother had initially been unwilling to leave Russia, but Vera eventually left for Sweden, along with her brother George, her nephews (Prince Teymuraz Constantinovich and Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia) and her nieces (Princess Natalia Konstantinovna Bagration-Mukhransky and Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia) at the invitation of Queen Victoria of Sweden.
She would spend the rest of her life in exile, first in Sweden, then Belgium and Germany and later the United States. During the Second World War, she worked as a translator. She died in New York in 2001.
VERA: Princess of the Imperial Blood Vera Konstantinovna by Paul Gilbert tries to bring Princess Vera back to life but fails to do so. The chapters are written by several people, including Princess Vera herself, as she describes her father and her family. This leads to information being repeated several times over. The information on Princess Vera is also pretty limited, so having it repeated made no sense. It probably would have been best if the information had been merged to form a single narrative rather than this. The only redeeming quality is the number of photographs, which is great.
She grew up in the splendour of Imperial Russia and was just eight years old when the First World War broke out. During the war, her father died of a heart attack in her presence, and her brother Prince Oleg was killed in action. Three other brothers were killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, alongside Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. Her mother had initially been unwilling to leave Russia, but Vera eventually left for Sweden, along with her brother George, her nephews (Prince Teymuraz Constantinovich and Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia) and her nieces (Princess Natalia Konstantinovna Bagration-Mukhransky and Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia) at the invitation of Queen Victoria of Sweden.
She would spend the rest of her life in exile, first in Sweden, then Belgium and Germany and later the United States. During the Second World War, she worked as a translator. She died in New York in 2001.
VERA: Princess of the Imperial Blood Vera Konstantinovna by Paul Gilbert tries to bring Princess Vera back to life but fails to do so. The chapters are written by several people, including Princess Vera herself, as she describes her father and her family. This leads to information being repeated several times over. The information on Princess Vera is also pretty limited, so having it repeated made no sense. It probably would have been best if the information had been merged to form a single narrative rather than this. The only redeeming quality is the number of photographs, which is great.
December 7, 2023
This short volume about Princess Vera Konstantinovna, a second cousin of Czar Nicholas II contains some rare photographs that have not been published elsewhere and some interesting reminiscences about Czar Nicholas II, the outbreak of the First World War and the experience of fleeing Russia after the revolutions of 1917. However, the various tributes to Vera included in the book repeat much of the material in her own recollections including her birthplace and the loss of her relatives.
February 6, 2024
Although Vera Konstantinovna sounds like an intriguing person who led a very interesting life, this book did not go into her details very much. Of course, it is a collection of other works, but there is a lot of unnecessary repetition. All of the pictures were great. I would like to learn more about this remarkable woman.
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