Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia

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 1,673,876 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia is the 2,850th most popular politician (up from 3,273rd in 2019), the 290th most popular biography from Russia (up from 316th in 2019) and the 93rd 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.