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Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia

1875 - 1960

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Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Ксения Александровна Романова; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1875 – 20 April 1960) was the elder daughter and fourth child of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (née Princess Dagmar of Denmark) and the sister of Emperor Nicholas II. She married her father's cousin, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, with whom she had seven children. She was the mother-in-law of Felix Yusupov and a cousin of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia who, together, killed Grigori Rasputin, holy healer to her nephew, the haemophiliac Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia. During her brother's reign she recorded in her diary and letters increasing concern about his rule. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia has received more than 1,712,586 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia is the 3,638th most popular politician (down from 2,842nd in 2019), the 351st most popular biography from Russia (down from 289th in 2019) and the 107th most popular Russian Politician.

Xenia Alexandrovna, grand duchess of Russia, was most famous for her philanthropic work. She was the daughter of Tsar Alexander II and sister of Tsar Nicholas II.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia ranks 3,638 out of 19,576. Before her are Pál Schmitt, Maria of Yugoslavia, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Muyeol of Silla, Sisowath Monivong, and Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès. After her are Liutprand, King of the Lombards, Robert I, Count of Artois, Sumu-abum, William III of Sicily, Shahrbaraz, and Louise of France.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia ranks 36. Before her are Mihály Károlyi, Henri Lebesgue, Albert Marquet, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Othenio Abel, and Sisowath Monivong. After her are Cléo de Mérode, Thomas Burke, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Mistinguett, Franco Alfano, and Birsa Munda. Among people deceased in 1960, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia ranks 24. Before her are Victor Sjöström, Héctor Castro, Ana Pauker, J. L. Austin, Dimitri Mitropoulos, and Henri Guisan. After her are Clara Haskil, Friedrich Adler, Felix Kersten, Ernst von Dohnányi, Ethel Voynich, and Mack Sennett.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia ranks 351 out of 3,761. Before her are The French Angel (1903), Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890), Alfred Schnittke (1934), Otto Nicolai (1810), Grigory Orlov (1734), and Valentin Serov (1865). After her are Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806), Nikolai Rubinstein (1835), Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), Ivan Silayev (1930), and Sergius of Radonezh (1314).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia ranks 107. Before her are Yury of Moscow (1281), Simeon of Moscow (1316), Vasily Blokhin (1895), Anatoly Sobchak (1937), Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), and Grigory Orlov (1734). After her are Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673), Ivan Silayev (1930), Mengu-Timur (1235), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1831), Chung Il-kwon (1917), and Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822).

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