tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762674434623075554.post1416910728690109563..comments2024-03-29T04:20:44.056-04:00Comments on Royal Musings: Grand Duchess Xenia's confirm's brother's deathMarlene Eilers Koenighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984860671065161997noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762674434623075554.post-66874369721888834112010-06-11T03:22:37.646-04:002010-06-11T03:22:37.646-04:00Marlene,
Not sure how to contact you except throu...Marlene,<br /> Not sure how to contact you except through these message boxes. I have just read a new book called "Red Princess" - the revolutionary life, love affairs, and adventures of Princess Sophy Dolgorouky, by Sofka Zinovieff. (Pegasus Books, New York: ISBN:978-1-60598-009-6, 2008).<br /><br />In it she says that the GD Xenia (Nicholas II's sister) had a love affair with Prince Sergei Dolgorouky who was an equerry to her mother, the Dowager Empress Marie. In 1917 he, Xenia and her children, and Empress Marie were under guard at Ai Todor in the Crimea when his wife whom he had married three years earlier apparently committed suicide when she discovered that her marriage was a covenient screen for Sergei's long-standing affair with the GD Xenia.<br /><br />I had read about Xenia's affair in Maylunas & Mironenko's "A Lifelong Passion", but her lover wasn't named.<br /><br />Regards,<br />RexAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com