antibes - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia
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Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (10 January 1864 antibes – 17 January 1931) was a member of the Russian antibes Imperial Family. Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich was the second son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievich the Elder (1831 – 1891) and Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg (1838 – 1900). He was antibes Ludovic Chelle born in Saint Petersburg. The two couples were socially very influential at the Russian imperial court in the early 20th century.
However, by 1914, Alexandra herself referred to them as the black family and felt herself to be manipulated by them. The couple escaped the Russian Revolution to the south of France. The Grand Duke and Duchess had four children: In 1907, his elder brother Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich married antibes Grand Duchess Militza s sister Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, known as Stana.
As was the custom for Russian Grand Dukes (the title applied to all sons and grandsons of a Russian Emperor), the Grand Duke Peter served in the Russian army as a Lt.-General and Adjutant-General. On 26 July 1889, he married Princess Milica of Montenegro (1866 – 1951), daughter of King Nicholas I of Montenegro (1841 – 1921). The Dowager Empress Marie firmly believed that the couple plotted with Rasputin and others to gain influence and favours through the neurotic Empress Alexandra (1872–1918).
Prince Felix Yussupov (1887–1967) — who was their neighbour in Koreiz — once described Znamenka, the Grand Duke and Duchesses palace as the central point of the powers of evil . His wife died in Alexandria, Egypt in September 1951. .
This was later to be a widely held belief within the higher echelons of the divided Russian court. They are credited with introducing first a charlatan mystic named merely Philippe, and then, with graver consequences, Grigori Rasputin (1869–1916) to the Imperial family.
