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Fabio Massimo Mastrangelo (born November 27, 1965) is an Italian conductor, particularly active in Russia since 2001. He has conducted performances substituting Yuri Temirkanov at the helm of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and Valery Gergiev at the Mariinsky Theatre. He has made world-premiere recordings of the orchestral music by Italian contemporary composer Elisabetta Brusa .


Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 References


Biography
Mastrangelo was born in Bari, Italy, studied there and graduated from its Conservatory as a pianist, later graduating from both the Geneva Conservatory (under Maria Tipo) and the London Academy of Music. Parallelly he initiated conducting studies at the Music Academy in Pescara, later attending masterclasses under Karl Österreicher, Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Meier, Neeme Järvi, and Jorma Panula. In 1990 moved to Canada to complete his conducting studies at the University of Toronto (1992) under Michel Tabachnik and Richard Bradshaw. There he started his professional music career as Assistant Conductor with the UofT Symphony Orchestra and to Boris Brott. In 1996 founded the chamber orchestra Virtuosi di Toronto. Most recently, he has been appointed to the position of Principal Guest Conductor with the Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra following in the footstep of Arnold Kats , the National Orchestra of Tatarstan (Kazan), and the Ekaterimburg State Opera Theatre . At the same time, he mantains the positions of Artistic Director of the chamber orchestra Novosibirsk Camerata, and of Musical Adviser of the Petruzzelli Opera Theatre in Bari.


References
1. ^ News Desk "Orchestral Works Vol 1 Elisabetta Brusa", Soundgenerator.com, 1 July 2002. Retrieved on 2008-02-18.
2. ^ Marina Korsakova. "Mozart more difficult than contemporaries", Continent Sibir, 1 February 2008. Retrieved on 2008-19-02.

Adopted Christmas songs are associated with Christmas, but have no explicit references to the holiday itself. Because of the time they were released, their wintry theme, or for other less obvious reasons, they have become an accepted and important part of Christmas music each year. They are sometimes given a Christmas feel by adding sleigh bells or by recording a Christmas video.

Examples of adopted Christmas songs include:

* "Jingle Bells", often called the 'most-popular' Christmas song, and certainly one of the most omnipresent every year, has no lyrics referring to Christmas at all. As holidays go, its first known performance was for a church Thanksgiving program in 1857, and was originally sung more around that holiday by Americans heading by sleigh to nearby family gatherings.

* "Winter Wonderland" - written in 1934 by Felix Bernard (composer) and Richard B. Smith (lyricist), due to its seasonal theme, "Winter Wonderland" is often regarded as a Christmas song in the Northern Hemisphere, although the holiday itself is never mentioned in the lyrics.

* "Baby, It's Cold Outside" - a pop standard composed by Frank Loesser, describing an intended winter-night seduction and usually performed as a male-female duet. Recorded by many artists including Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan, etc. This standard was widely heard all year around on Adult Standards radio stations until the 1990s when such stations began playing more baby boomer pop and softer rock songs in the format. This song began being heard regularly at Christmas time after Rod Stewart recorded it with Dolly Parton and also radio stations began playing Christmas music for the entire Advent season. After Rod Stewart recorded the song, half a dozen other adult contemporary artists recorded it for their Christmas albums.

* "" - first published in 1917, this Douglas Furber tune was popularly revived in the of the same name. Both the film and song have come to be commonly associated with the Christmas season, and the latter has been covered on many artists' Christmas albums.

* "Celebrate Me Home" by Kenny Loggins, from the 1977 album of the same title. In recent years this has been featured in the "all-Christmas" format of numerous US Adult Contemporary radio stations.

* "Dear Mr. Jesus" - PowerSource from their Shelter From The Storm album. It is sung by a 9 year old girl named Sharon Batts. Richard Klender wrote it in 1985. The song is about child abuse awareness and it has nothing to do with Christmas. Connie Bradley, Director, ASCAP, on April 11, 1988 said that this song was one of the, "most requested songs in the history of radio", (it is still highly requested every holiday season).

* "Feed the Birds" sung by Julie Andrews from Mary Poppins is often associated with the holiday making many references to "saints and apostles" and "St. Paul's Cathedral". The song is popular with Christmas carolers as well, but it is not related to the holiday.

* The "Hallelujah Chorus", from Handel's Messiah oratorio, is often performed at Christmas (as is, occasionally, the larger work), although it was originally conceived and performed as an Easter piece.

* "If We Make It Through December", recorded by Merle Haggard in 1973. The song is a lament of a father who loses his job at the factory just as the holidays are approaching. Depressed over his predicament during what normally should be a "happy time of year", he observes that his little girl "don't understand why Daddy can't afford no Christmas here." The song reached No. 1 on Billboard magazines Hot Country Singles chart on December 22 1973 ... just in time for Christmas. (It should be noted, however, that the song did first appear on Haggard's Christmas-themed album entitled "A Christmas Present.")

* "It's a Small World Holiday" from the it's a small world attraction at Disneyland in California Recorded By:Disneyland Children's Choir from the Orange County Elementary Schools. First introduced in 1997. Every year, the attraction is decorated between Thanksgiving and New Years. The attraction is dressed in 300,000 twinkling lights, a Santa Claws hat on the clock, and many more. The dolls sing "Jingle Bells" an "Deck the Halls" along with its famous theme song.

* "It Won't Be Long 'Til Christmas" from the Walt Disney musical film The Happiest Millionaire. The song is sung by two aging parents, lamenting their children growing up and leaving home. Although the Sherman Brothers' lyric references Christmas throughout the song, it is not in fact about the holiday at all.

* "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" - a 20th-century pop standard written by Irving Berlin that mentions winter themes such as snow, icicles, and December. Often performed as a duet, notably by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, which appeared on the album Ella and Louis Again in 1957. Like "Baby, It's Cold Outside", it was often heard year round on MOR stations until the late 1960s and Adult Standards stations throughout the 1980's. Dean Martin's version was widely played over the decades. Beginning in the early 2000s, Dean's version became widely played on Christmas music programming on Adult Contemporary radio stations.

*"Linus and Lucy" - Vince Guaraldi's jazz tune was used in many of the animated TV specials featuring Charles Schulz's Peanuts characters, but is particularly associated with A Charlie Brown Christmas and commonly played on the radio during the holiday season.

* "Mr. Sandman" sung by The Chordettes and written by Pat Ballard is often mistaken for a Christmas song, due to the bells heard throughout the song and its references to another character that comes during the night to bring mysterious things (dreams instead of gifts). Pat Ballard actually wrote a version called "Mr. Santa". Sung by Sandler & Young initially, it's seldom heard today.

*"My Favorite Things" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music. U.S. radio stations that play Christmas music typically air various versions of this show tune, relating "favorite things" to Christmas gifts and also mentioning "silver white winters." It has recently become a 'signature' Christmas song for Tony Bennett. Tony's version had been widely played all year around on adult standards and easy listening radio stations for many years. The adult contemporary, top 40, and oldies stations only played the song at Christmas time but usually by The Supremes rather than Tony Bennett. Kenny Rogers' version also has been heard during the Christmas season on contemporary radio stations, as has Lorrie Morgan's version. Today, the song is usually only heard at Christmas time.

*"River" by Joni Mitchell begins with the sound of "Jingle Bells" and makes brief mention of the Christmas holiday. It is otherwise a fairly somber song. This song has become a Christmas standard, with many recent versions catching on (including Linda Ronstadt, Allison Crowe, Barry Manilow, Sarah Maclachlan, and Travis) .

*"Same Old Lang Syne" - Dan Fogelberg (1980-1981). The mention of Christmas Eve in this song is largely coincidental as the song as in fact about a chance meeting Fogelberg had with an old friend of his. The song focused slightly on New Years. Still, long after the Christmas season, this song was widely heard on contemporary music radio stations in 1981 and even beyond. Its still occasionally played year round, but stations have also picked up the song for more extensive airplay during Advent as part of their Christmas music rotation.

*"The Second Star to the Right"- from the 1953 Walt Disney animated feature Peter Pan. Radio stations that play Christmas music occasionally play this song, referring to the Star of Bethlehem (some denominations will sometimes replace 'Neverland' with 'Bethlehem').

* "Song for a Winter's Night" - written and originally recorded by Gordon Lightfoot, this seasonal tune was covered by Sarah McLachlan on the Rarities, B-Sides And Other Stuff album, and included on her 2006 holiday album Wintersong.

* "What a Wonderful World" - long associated with Louis Armstrong, this 1967 ballad has no holiday or seasonal content in its lyrics, but has been featured on a number of artists' Christmas albums in recent years.

The Romanov Curse refers to a series of unfortunate events that have happened to the famed House of Romanov. While these events could have happened or would have happened in some circumstances to any family, some have referred to the continual misfortune of the Romanov family as a curse. Several members of the Romanov family have died from unnatural causes, suddenly from diseases they were less susceptible to contract or murdered, most notably brothers Nicholas II of Russia and Michael of Russia who were assassinated, and Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, who died with his father, mother and sisters. Due to the tendency of the members of this family to die at a relatively young age, specially males, it is said that (almost) no male Romanov lives to 70. Adding to all that many couples descending of the Romanovs died without issue of their marriages.

It inspired book The Curse of the Romanovs by Staton Rabin.

Validity
There are several theories regarding the origin of the "curse".

Critics of the curse theory argue that given the sheer size of the family, the number of unfortunate events is not unusual. The "curse" may be seen less as a supernatural phenomenon than simply as an operation of the laws of probability. Moreover, while tragic events occur to a lesser or greater extent in all families, and specially during the period of the Russian Revolution, they make headline news when they involve a famous clan. It could also be argued that the Romanov's, owing to their Royal and Imperial status, had a lifestyle that is quite different from that of average persons -- most people, for example, isn't involved in politics in a backward state in troubled times -- and consequently they are more often in greater physical danger. Since they've also lost their status and went out with few or nothing when so many of them lived without any care or preparation, they were also more exposed to the difficulties of their refugee status. It could furthermore be argued that, by being a political family, the Romanov's definitely have exposed themselves to danger from political enemies. Some have argued that Peter III of Russia and Alexander II of Russia were victims of assassination conspiracies.

Chronology
Believers in the "curse" generally cite the following core events as evidence of the family's misfortunes:

*November 30, 1592 - Boris Feodorovich, brother of future Tsar Michael of Russia, died young
*December 9, 1593 - Nikita Feodorovich, brother of future Tsar Michael of Russia, died young
*October 1, 1597 - Lev Feodorovich, brother of future Tsar Michael of Russia, died young
*June 17, 1599 - Ivan Feodorovich, brother of future Tsar Michael of Russia, died young
*November 14, 1611 - Tatiana Feodorovna, sister of future Tsar Michael of Russia, died before age 40
*1625 - Maria Dolgorukova, first wife of Tsar Michael of Russia, died four months after their marriage
*July 13, 1645 - Tsar Michael of Russia, who suffered from a progressing leg injury (a consequence of a horse accident early in his life), which resulted in his not being able to walk towards the end of his life, died at 49 years and one day; Michael's failure to wed his daughter Irene with Prince Waldemar of Denmark, in consequence of the refusal of the latter to accept Orthodoxy, so deeply afflicted him as to contribute to bringing about his death
*August 18, 1645 - Eudoxia Streshneva, second wife of Tsar Michael of Russia, died five weeks after her husband at age 37
*October, 1649 - Tsarevich Dimitri Alexeievich, son of Tsar Alexei of Russia, died at age one
*May, 1659 - Anna Alexeivna, daughter of Tsar Alexei of Russia, died at age 4
*March 3, 1669 - Maria Miloslavskaya, first wife of Tsar Alexei of Russia, died weeks after her thirteenth childbirth at age 44
*June 29, 1669 - Semen Alexeievich, son of Tsar Alexei of Russia, died at age 4
*January 27, 1670 - Tsarevich Alexei Alexeievich, son of Tsar Alexei of Russia, died at age 15
*January 29, 1676 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia died at age 46
*1677 - Feodora Alexeievna, daughter of Tsar Alexei of Russia, died at age 4
*July 24, 1681 - Agafia Semenovna Gruchetzkaya, first wife of Tsar Feodor III of Russia, died three days after the childbirth of their son Ilya Feodorovich, son of Tsar Feodor III of Russia, who died at three days old
*May 7, 1682 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia died at age 20
*May 22, 1691 - Feodosia Ivanovna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V of Russia, died before age one
*February 23, 1692 - Maria Ivanovna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V of Russia, died before age 3
*May 24, 1692 - Alexander Petrovich, son of Tsar and future Emperor Peter I of Russia, died in Moscow before age one
*1693 - Pavel Petrovich, son of Tsar and later Emperor Peter I of Russia, died before age one
*February 4, 1694 - Natalia Naryshkina, second wife of Tsar Alexei of Russia, died at age 42
*February 8, 1696 - Emperor Ivan V of Russia, an invalid, both physically and mentally, senile, paralytic and almost blind, died at age 29
*July 14, 1704 - Regent Sophia Alekseyevna died at age 46
*ca 1707 - Pavel Petrovich, son of Tsar and later Emperor Peter I of Russia and wife future Empress Catherine I of Russia, died at about age 3
*ca 1707 - Pyotr Petrovich, son of Tsar and later Emperor Peter I of Russia and wife future Empress Catherine I of Russia died at about age 2
*January 21, 1711 - Frederick Wilhelm, Duke of Courland, husband of future Empress Anna of Russia, died from surfeit at age 18
*December 14, 1713 - Feodosia Alexeievna, daughter of Tsar Alexei of Russia, died at age 51
*May 27, 1715 - Natalia Petrovna, daughter of Tsar and later Emperor Peter I of Russia and wife future Empress Catherine I of Russia, died at age 2
*June 7, 1715 - Margarita Petrovna, daughter of Tsar and later Emperor Peter I of Russia and wife future Empress Catherine I of Russia, died before age one
*November 2, 1715 - Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg, wife of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, died a few days after her childbirth at age 21
*January 11, 1716 - Marfa Matveievna Apraksina, second wife of Tsar Feodor III of Russia, died at age 52
*June 28, 1716 - Natalia Alexeievna, daughter of Tsar Alexei I of Russia, died at age 42
*January 14, 1717 - Pavel Petrovich, son of Tsar and later Emperor Peter I of Russia and wife future Empress Catherine I of Russia, died at Wesel at one day old
*July 7, 1718 - Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia was killed by his father after being tortured at Saint Petersburg
*April 19, 1719 - Pyotr Petrovich, son of Tsar and future Emperor Peter I of Russia and wife future Empress Catherine I of Russia, died at age 3
*October 7, 1723 - Pyotr Petrovich, son of Emperor Peter I of Russia and wife future Empress Catherine I of Russia, died at about age 3
*February 8, 1725 - Emperor Peter I of Russia, whose overall health was never robust, died of a blatter infected with gangrene at age 52
*March 15, 1725 - , daughter of Emperor Peter I of Russia and wife Empress Catherine I of Russia, died at age 6
*May 17, 1727 - Empress Catherine I of Russia died at age 43
*March 4/May 15, 1728 - Anna Petrovna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Peter I of Russia and wife Empress Catherine I of Russia, died at age 20
*November 3, 1728 - Natalia Alexeievna Romanova, daughter of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, died at age 14
*June 4, 1730 - Ivan ...vich Dimitriev-Mamonov, husband of Praskovia Ivanovna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V of Russia, died at age 49
*October 19, 1731 - Praskovia Ivanovna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V of Russia, died at age 37
*June 25, 1733 - Ekaterina Ivanovna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V of Russia, died at age 41
*January 30, 1739 - Emperor Peter II of Russia died of smallpox at age 14
*June 18, 1739 - Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, husband of Anna Petrovna of Russia, died at age 39
*October 28, 1740 - Empress Anna of Russia died of kidney disease at age 47
*March 19, 1746 - Regent Anna Leopoldovna, who had been imprisoned since 1741 with the family in the fortress of Dünamünde near Riga and then exiled them to Kholmogory on the Northern Dvina river, died in childbirth at age 27
*March 19, 1759 - Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia, who had lived estranged from her mother, died before age 2
*January 5, 1762 - Empress Elizabeth of Russia died at age 52
*July 16/July 17, 1762 - Emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered strangled to death in prison at Ropsha, where he was locked on July 5
*July 16, 1764 - Emperor Ivan VI of Russia, after being imprisoned since age one isolated from his family, was murdered at age 23
*May 4, 1774 - Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, husband of Regent Anna Leopoldovna, died after 33 years imprisoned with the family in the fortress of Dünamünde near Riga and then exiled them to Kholmogory on the Northern Dvina river
*April 15, 1776 - Natalia Alexeievna of Russia, wife of future Emperor Paul I of Russia, died in childbirth of a stillborn son at age 19
*October 20, 1782 - Elisaveta Antonovna, daughter of Regent Anna Leopoldovna, who was born in prison, died imprisoned at Horsens at age 39
*1790s - Maria Pavlovna of Russia got disfigured as a result of a pioneering application of the smallpox vaccine
*October 23, 1787 - Alexei Antonovich, son of Regent Anna Leopoldovna, who was born in prison, died imprisoned at Horsens at age 41
*January 26, 1795 - Olga Pavlovna of Russia, daughter of future Emperor Paul I of Russia, died at age 2
*November 17, 1796 - Empress Catherine II of Russia suffered a stroke while in the bathroom (whether while getting out of the bath, or off the toilet remains undetermined) (November 5 1796), and subsequently died in her bed at 10:15 the following evening without having regained consciousness; shortly after her death, an enduring, albeit totally false, rumor arose, probably started by French nobility; the rumor held that Catherine died when a horse fell on her during an act of bestiality; this and other salacious stories have survived the test of time and remain widely repeated even today
*1797 - Count Alexei Alexeievich Bobrinsky, first son of Count Alexei Grigoryevich Bobrinsky, illegitimate son of Empress Catherine II of Russia by Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov, died before age one
*January 30, 1798 - Pyotr Antonovich, son of Regente Anna Leopoldovna, who was born in prison, died imprisoned at Horsens at age 52
*July 8, 1800 - Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, first daughter of future Emperor Alexander I of Russia, died in St.Petersburg at age one; it seems that her father was in fact her mother's lover Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, for she had dark hair and eyes and none of her parents had them
*March 8, 1801 - Archduchess Alexandrine of Austria, stillborn daughter of Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, died in Budapest
*March 16, 1801 - Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia died after the childbirth of her daughter, stillborn in Wien at age 17
*March 24, 1801 - Emperor Paul I of Russia, who had lived estranged from his mother, is murdered strangled to death at Summer Palace in St. Michael's Castle
*September 24, 1803 - Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia died of illness at age 18
*April 10, 1806 - Prince Karl von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, son of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, died before age 1
*April 7, 1807 - Ekaterina Antonovna, daughter of Regent Anna Leopoldovna, who was imprisoned at four months old, died imprisoned at age 65
*May 12, 1808 - Grand Duchess Elizabeth Alexandrovna of Russia, second daughter of Emperor Alexander I of Russia, died of infection in St. Petersburg before age 2
*May 18, 1810 - Zenaida Dmitrievna Naryshkina, illegitimate daughter of Emperor Alexander I of Russia by Maria Naryshkina, died at age 4
*1812 - Alexander Feodorovich de Klinger, son of Elisaveta Alexandrovna Alexeeva, illegitimate daughter of Empress Catherine II of Russia, died at about age 30
*March 20, 1819 - Princess Barbara ...vna Tourkestanova, mistress of Emperor Alexander I of Russia, died at age 44
*July 22, 1820 - future Emperor Nicholas I of Russia's wife gives birth to a first stillborn daughter
*October 22, 1822 - Prince Ernst Casimir of the Netherlands, son of Anna Pavlovna of Russia, died one day before completing 5 months old
*October 23, 1823 - future Emperor Nicholas I of Russia's wife gives birth to a second stillborn daughter
*1824 - Maria Ivanovna Katatcharova, mistress of Emperor Alexander I of Russia, died at age 28
*June 18, 1824 - Sophia Dmitrievna Naryshkina, illegitimate daughter of Emperor Alexander I of Russia by Maria Naryshkina, died at age 16
*December 1, 1825 - Emperor Alexander I of Russia died mysteriously apparently of typhoid fever at Taganrog at age 47; believed interred at Peter and Paul Fortress, his tomb was found to be empty by the Soviets in 1925
*May 16, 1826 - , wife of Emperor Alexander I of Russia, died of a lung disease at Belev at age 47
*1826 - Count Alexei Pavlovich Bobrinsky, son of Count Pavel Alexeievich Bobrinsky and paternal grandson of Count Alexei Grigoryevich Bobrinsky, illegitimate son of Empress Catherine II of Russia by Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov died before age 2
*1828 - Princess Lydia ...vna Gortschakova, first wife of Count Vassily Alexeievich Bobrinsky, son of Count Alexei Gregoryevich Bobrinsky, illegitimate son of Empress Catherine II of Russia by Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov, died at age 21
*November 16, 1829 - Duke Alexander of Oldenburg, son of Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, died at age 19
*1830 - Count Pavel Alexeievich Bobrinsky, son of Count Alexei Grigorievich Bobrinsky, illegitimate son of Empress Catherine II of Russia by Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov, died at age 29
*1831 - Barbara ...vna Yakovleva, mistress of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died at age 28
*June 27, 1831 - Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia, almost Emperor of Russia, died of cholera at Vitebsk at age 52
*November 29, 1831 - Countess Joanna Grudna-Grudzinska, created Princess Lowicka, second wife of Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia, died at age 32
*March 27, 1832 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Mikhailovna of Russia, daughter of Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, died at age one
*1835 - Countess Maria Alexeievna Bobrinskaya, daughter of Count Alexei Grigoryevich Bobrinsky, illegitimate son of Empress Catherine II of Russia by Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov, died at age 37
*March 22, 1836 - Grand Duchess Anna Mikhailovna of Russia, daughter of Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, died in St. Petersburg before age 2
*March 7, 1842 - Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, son of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, died of a cold caught while rushing to a fire in his capital city at age 41
*January 11, 1843 - Princess Cäcilie von Oldenburg, paternal granddaughter of Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, died before age one
*August 12, 1843 - Princess Alexandra Maximilianovna Romanovskaya, daughter of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died at age 3
*December 19, 1843 - Maria ...vna Tourkestanova, illegitimate daughter of Emperor Alexander I of Russia by Princess Barbara Tourkestanova, died at age 24
*August 10, 1844 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia died of childbirth at age 19; she went into labor prematurely, three months before the child was due, and gave birth to a son, Wilhelm; the infant died shortly after he was born, and Alexandra died later the same day
*January 28, 1845 - Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia, daughter of Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, died at Wiesbaden after the childbirth of a daughter who also didn't survive the day before
*November 19, 1846 - Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia, daughter of Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, died in Wien at age 21
*February 20, 1848 - Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, son of Anna Pavlovna of Russia, died in Funchal at age 29
*March 17, 1849 - King William II of the Netherlands, husband of Anna Pavlovna of Russia, died suddenly at age 56
*July 10, 1849 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia, first daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, died of infant meningitis at age 6
*June 4, 1850 - Prince Maurice of the Netherlands, paternal grandson of Anna Pavlovna of Russia and maternal grandson of Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, died at age 6
*November 1, 1852 - Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg, husband of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died of illness at age 35
*July 11, 1854 - Prince Nikolaus of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, son of Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia, died at birth
*1854 - Countess Olga ...vna Kalinovskya, mistress of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, died at age 36
*October 23, 1857 - Paul Constantinovich Alexandrov, illegitimate son of Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia, died at age 49
*January 27, 1859 - future Emperor William II of Germany born in a traumatic breech birth that left him with a withered left arm due to Erb's Palsy, which he tried with some success to conceal; in many photos he carries a pair of white gloves in his left hand to make the arm seem longer, or has his crippled arm on the hilt of a sword or clutching a cane to give the effect of the limb being posed at a dignified angle
*February 26, 1859 - Count Grigory Grigoryevich Stroganov, son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died before age 2
*April 26, 1859 - Princess Anna von Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, paternal granddaughter of Maria Pavlovna of Russia and maternal granddaughter of Anna Pavlovna of Russia, died at age 8
*December 28, 1861 - Princess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, daughter of Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia, died at 6 months old
*June 4, 1863 - Wilhelmine Alexandrine Pauline Alexandrova, illegitimate daughter of Emperor Alexander I of Russia by Marguerite-Josephine Weimer, died at age 57
*June 20, 1863 - Alexis Nikolaievich Pashkine, illegitimate son of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia by Barbara ...vna Nelidova, died at age 32
*April 24, 1865 - Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, first son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and heir to the throne, died of tuberculosis at age 21
*June 18, 1866 - , whose paternal grandmother was a daughter of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, died of meningitis before age 2
*June 23, 1866 - Katherine of Oldenburg, paternal granddaughter of Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, died at St. Petersburg at age 19
*January 6, 1868 - Peter Graf von Osternburg, whose paternal grandfather was a son of Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, died at Lublin before age 2
*September 26, 1869 - Olga Gräfin von Osternburg, whose paternal grandfather was a son of Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, died at Bialystok before age 2
*March 19, 1870 - Daria ...vna Opotchinina, Countess of Beauharnais, first wife of Prince Evgeny Maximilianovich Romanovsky, 5th Duke of Leuchtenberg, son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died in Constantinople at her birthday at age 25
*May 2, 1870 - Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia, second son of Emperor Alexander III of Russia, died of infant meningitis before age one
*March 17, 1871 - George of Oldenburg, paternal grandson of Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, died in St. Petersburg at age 22
*1873 - Sergei Konstantinovich Kniazev, illegitimate son of Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaevich of Russia, died at birth; he was the first of four out of five full siblings to die young
*1870s - Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaevich of Russia and grandson of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, had an affair with a notorious American lady Fanny Lear; this affair let him into a plot to betray his family, in which he stole three valuable diamonds from an icon that belonged to his mother; he was declared insane and he was banished to the far reaches of the Russian empire never to see home again
*February 21, 1876 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, who probably suffered either from varicose veins or from some sort of bone disease, and by the end of her life she had become an invalid, died of the disease at age 57
*April 11, 1876 - Prince Boris Alexandrovich Romanov Yurievsky, son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, died before 2 months old and was posthumously legitimated
*January 27, 1877 - Duke Eugene of Württemberg, husband of Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia, died of illness at age 30
*March 16, 1877 - Grand Duke Alexander Vladimirovich of Russia, first son of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, died before age 2
*October 24, 1877 - Prince Sergei Maximilianovich Romanovsky, son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, was KIA at Rustchuk at age 27
*1878 - Galina Nikolaevna Nikolaeva, illegitimate daughter of , died before age one
*January 13, 1879 - Prince Henry of the Netherlands, son of Anna Pavlovna of Russia, died from measles at age 58
*February 27, 1879 - Grand Duke Vyacheslav Konstantinovich of Russia died at Saint Petersburg of brain hemorrhage at age 16
*March 13, 1879 - Count Grigori Alexandrovich Stroganov, second husband of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died of illness at age 54
*March 27, 1879 - , whose paternal grandmother was a daughter of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, died of diphteria on Berlin at age 11
*June 11, 1879 - Prince William of the Netherlands, Crown Prince of the Netherlands, paternal grandson of Anna Pavlovna of Russia and maternal grandson of Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, died in his apartment in the Rue Auber, near the Paris Opera from a combination of typhus, liver complaints and total exhaustion after a life of sex, drink and gambling at age 38
*October 13, 1879 - Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia gave birth to a stillborn son
*June 8, 1880 - Empress died of illness at age 55
*November 2, 1880 - Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, daughter of Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, died before 7 months old
*March 13, 1881 - Emperor Alexander II of Russia was assassinated with a bomb at Saint Petersburg after some other assassination attempts, dying some hours later with both legs destroyed, and bleeding to death
*April 18, 1883 - Princess Therese von Oldenburg, paternal granddaughter of Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, died at age 31
*June 21, 1884 - Alexander, Prince of Orange, Crown Prince of the Netherlands, paternal grandson of Anna Pavlovna of Russia and maternal grandson of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, died at age 32; he was the last male line descendant of the branch of the Netherlands of the House of Orange
*December 7, 1884 - Alexandra Pavlovna Alexandrova, daughter of Paul Constantinovich Alexandrov, illegitimate son of Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia, died at age 48
*1885 - Ismael Konstantinovich Kniazev, illegitimate son of Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaevich of Russia, died of Scarlet fever at age 6; he was the second of four out of five full siblings to die young
*1885 - Lev Konstantinovich Kniazev, illegitimate son of Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaevich of Russia, died of Scarlet fever at age 2; he was the third of four out of five full siblings to die young
*February 3, 1888 - Prince William von Baden, great-grandson in female line of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, died at age 22
*June 15, 1888 - Emperor Frederick III of Germany died of cancer at age 56
*December 5, 1888 - Vera Gräfn von Osternburg, whose paternal grandfather was a son of Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, died in Paris at age 17
*March 20, 1889 - , son of Prince Heinrich of Prussia, whose paternal grandmother was a daughter of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, was born with haemophilia
*January 6, 1891 - Prince Nikolai Maximilianovich Romanovsky, 4th Duke of Leuchtenberg, son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died at age 47
*April 12, 1891 - Olga Feodorovna of Baden, wife of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaevich of Russia, died at Kharkiv at age 51
*April 13, 1891 - died at Alupka one year after being declared insane and kept locked indoors in Crimea at age 49
*June 6, 1891 - Nadezhda ...vna Annenkova, wife of Prince Nikolai Maximilianovich Romanovsky, 4th Duke of Leuchtenberg, son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died at age 50; she is said to have married in October 1868, or in Moscow in October 1879; others say that this couple never actually married; because the marriage either did not happen or was unrecognized, their sons were in 1890 granted the title Duke von Leuchtenberg
*September 24, 1891 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia, wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, died of childbirth at age 21 just hours after her second son Dmitri's birth; she had carelessly stepped into a waiting boat, causing premature labor; Dimitri was born in the hours following the accident; Alexandra slipped into a coma, and never came out
*November 1, 1894 - Emperor Alexander III of Russia died of nephritis at age 49
*March 1/March 2, 1895 - Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia died of tuberculosis at Sanremo at age 19
*April 10, 1897 - Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin commits suicide by throwing himself off a parapet of a bridge at age 46
*December 20, 1897 - Alexander Graf von Merenberg, son of Princess Olga Alexandrovna Romanov Yurievsky, daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, died at age one
*March 3, 1898 - Princess Sofia Petrovna of Russia, daughter of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, died at birth
*February 6, 1899 - Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, son of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, died of syphilis at age 24
*June 28, 1899 - Zinaida ...vna Skobeleva, Countess of Beauharnais, Duchess of Leuchtenberg, second wife of Prince Evgeny Maximilianovich Romanovsky, 5th Duke of Leuchtenberg, son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died in Constantinople at age 43
*August 9, 1899 - Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, third son of Emperor Alexander III of Russia, died of tuberculosis at Abbas Tuman at age 28
*January 9, 1900 - Prince Heinrich of Prussia, son of Prince Heinrich of Prussia, whose paternal grandmother was a daughter of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, was born with haemophilia
*May 25, 1900 - Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, daughter of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, gives birth to a stillborn
*1902 - Nicholas Nikolaevich Nikolaev, illegitimate son of , died at age 27
*August 31, 1901 - Prince Evgeny Maximilianovich Romanovsky, 5th Duke of Leuchtenberg, son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died at age 54
*November 6, 1903 - Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, daughter of Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and maternal granddaughter of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, died of typhoid fever at age 8; her early death was rumored to be a result of poison meant for her uncle, Tsar Nicholas II, but the court physician said she died of virulent typhoid
*February 26, 1904 - Prince Heinrich Viktor Ludwig Friedrich of Prussia, son of Prince Heinrich of Prussia, whose paternal grandmother was a daughter of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, died of haemophilia at age 4
*April, 1904 - Cyril Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia, later heir to the throne since 1924, while serving as First Officer on the in the Russian Navy during the Russian-Japanese War, the ship was blown up by a Japanese mine at Port Arthur in April 1904; Cyril barely escaped with his life, and was invalided out of the service suffering from burns, back injuries and shell shock
*August 12, 1904 - Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia was born with haemophilia
*February 4, 1905 - Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, was killed in Moscow by a bomb thrown at him, while on service in the Kremlin, by the Socialist-Revolutionary terrorist Ivan Kalyayev
*May 23, 1905 - Princess Natalia Konstantinovna of Russia, daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, died at Saint Petersburg at the exact age of 2 months
*December 28, 1905 - Duke Maximilian Nikolaievich of Leuchtenberg, whose paternal grandfather was a son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died at age 5
*February 11, 1908 - Countess Elena Grigorievna Stroganova, daughter of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died at age 47 and one day
*March 6, 1910 - Prince Alexander V...vich Bariatinsky, first husband of Princess Catherine Alexandrovna Romanov Yurievsky, daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, died at age 39
*April 18, 1911 - Prince Alfred of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, son of Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and maternal grandson of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, died at 2 days old
*April 11, 1912 - Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia died of a stroke at age 58
*1910 - Olga Nikolaievna Wolinskaya, illegitimate daughter of Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich of Russia, died at age 33
*March 18, 1913 - King George I of Greece, husband of Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, is shot and murdered at Thessalonika
*September 13, 1913 - Prince George Alexandrovich Romanov Yurievsky, son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, died at age 41
*December 4, 1913 - Natalia Catharine Helene Gräfn von Carlow, paternal granddaughter of Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia, died at Oranienbaum at age 19
*December 30, 1913 - Nicholas Nikolaievich Wolinsky, illegitimate son of Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich of Russia, died at age 35
*October 12, 1914 - Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia died at Vitebsk Hospital, Vilno, of wounds received in action on World War I
*October 13, 1914 - Prince Maximilian Friedrich Wilhelm Georg of Hesse-Cassel, whose maternal grandfather was a maternal grandson of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, was KIA in France in World War I at age 19
*May 19, 1915 - Prince Constantine Bagration-Moukhransky, son in law of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, is KIA at Jaroslav, near Lvov, in World War I
*June 15, 1915 - Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia died of grief after the death of his son and son in law at age 56
*May 24, 1916 - Waldemar Freiherr von Gravenitz, second husband of Countess Daria Evgenievna de Beauharnais, daughter of Prince Evgeny Maximilianovich Romanovsky, 5th Duke of Leuchtenberg, son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died at age 43
*September 12, 1916 - Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Sigismund of Hesse-Cassel, whose maternal grandfather was a maternal grandson of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, KIA in Romania in World War I at age 22
*November 2, 1916 - Prince Mircea of Romania, maternal grandson of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, died before age 4; it seems that his father was in fact his mother's lover Prince , for he had dark hair and eyes and none of his parents had them
*June 12/June 13, 1918 - Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia is executed near Perm
*July 17, 1918 - Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Empress and their children Olga Nikolaevna, Tatiana Nikolaevna, Maria Nikolaevna, Anastasia Nikolaevna, Alexei Nikolaevich and their maids and doctor are executed by a firing squad at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg; their bodies were mutilated, exploded and burnt and buried twice in a forest nearby
*July 17/July 18, 1918 - Vladimir Pavlovich Paley and brothers Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Konstantine Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Igor Konstantinovich of Russia, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia and some friends were executed at Alapaevsk brutally murdered in an atrocious way by the Bolsheviks in a mineshaft
*September 20, 1918 - Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland, whose maternal grandmother was a maternal grandmother of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, who suffered from epilepsy and mental retardation, died of Spanish flu at age 29
*January 28/January 30, 1919 - Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, Grand Duke Dimitri Konstantinovich of Russia, Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia and were executed shot by a firing squad at the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg
*February 22/February 25, 1919 - Duke Andrei Georgievich of Leuchtenberg, whose paternal grandfather was a son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, was KIA at Narva in the Russian Civil War at age 15
*May, 1919 - Prince Roman Sergeievich Poutiatine, son of , died at Bucharest before age one
*1919 - Prince Artemy Nikolaievich Iskander was killed in the Russian Civil War; his former sister in law Olga ...vna Rogovskya disappeared in USSR and her children and his nephew and niece ended up working in a Circus
*1919 - Stanislav Nikolaievich, illegitimate son of Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich of Russia, died young
*February 5, 1920 - Anna Konstantinovna Kniazeva, illegitimate daughter of Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaevich of Russia, died of Typhoid fever at age 41; she was the fourth of four out of five full siblings to die young
*February 14, 1920 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Lialin, husband of Anna Konstantinovna Kniazeva, illegitimate daughter of Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaevich of Russia, died of Typhoid fever at age 50
*October 25, 1920 - King Alexander I of Greece died as the result of sepsis contracted by being bitten by two monkeys at age 27
*September 2, 1921 - Olga ...vna Fomina, first wife of Duke Nikolai Nikolaievich of Leuchtenberg, whose paternal grandfather was a son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died in Constantinople at age 23
*February 6, 1922 - Alexander ...vich Korochenzov, son in law of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, died in Lausanne at age 44
*March 11, 1922 - after a life of scandals, Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia died of a stroke at age 61
*1922 - Nikolai Nikolaievich, illegitimate son of Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich of Russia, died young
*June 17, 1926 - Prince Wilhelm Alfred Ferdinand von Schleswig-Holstein- Sonderburg-Glücksburg, whose maternal grandmother was a daughter of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, died at age 6
*October 15, 1926 - Nikolai ...vich Terestchenko, first husband of Duchess Alexandra Nikolaievna of Leuchtenberg, whose paternal grandfather was a son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died in Paris at age 32
*January 26, 1928 - Prince Levan Melikov, first and former husband of Duchess Alexandra Nikolaievna of Leuchtenberg, whose paternal grandfather was a son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died in New York City at age 34
*February 9, 1928 - Duke Mikhail Nikolaievich of Leuchtenberg, whose paternal grandfather was a son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died at Vaucluse at age 22
*1930/1932 - Alexei Alexeevich, Count Belevsky-Zhukovsky, son of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, was killed by the Soviets in the Caucasus
*July 22, 1931 - George, Count Brasov, only son of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, is killed in car wreck at Auxerre
*March 2, 1936 - Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, daughter of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, died of a stroke at age 59
*November 18, 1936 - Infante Alfonso of Orléans-Bourbon, maternal grandson of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, was KIA near Madrid in the Spanish Civil War at age 24
*May 5, 1937 - Duke Nikolai Nikolaievich of Leuchtenberg, whose paternal grandfather was a son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died in Munich at age 40
*November 16, 1937 - Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, who was a paternal granddaughter of Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, her daughter Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, son in law Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, his mother Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich and grandsons Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine and left Darmstadt for London; the aeroplane hit a factory chimney near Ostend and crashed into flames, killing all those on board; Cecilie was eight months pregnant with her fourth child at the time of the crash, and the remains of the fetus were found in the wreckage, indicating that Cecilie had gone into labour.
*January 15, 1938 - Victor Markezetti, third husband of Countess Daria Evgenievna de Beauharnais, daughter of Prince Evgeny Maximilianovich Romanovsky, 5th Duke of Leuchtenberg, son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, was executed at Leningrad
*November 7, 1938 - Prince Georgi Konstantinovich of Russia died of complications following surgery in New York City at age 35
*June 14, 1939 - Princess Johanna of Hesse and by Rhine, sister of Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine and , daughter of Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and wife Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, paternal granddaughter of Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich and maternal granddaughter of Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, who was a paternal granddaughter of Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, who had been adopted by her uncle Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine, died at Darmstadt from meningitis before age 3
*May 26, 1940 - Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Joseph Christian Olaf of Prussia, former heir to the throne of Germany, maternal grandson of Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia and whose paternal grandfather was a maternal grandson of a daughter of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, was KIA at Nivelles in World War II
*October 29, 1940 - Donna Elisabetha Ruffo di Sasso-Ruffo, first wife of Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia, was killed during a bombing in World War II at Wilderness House, Hampton Court
*August 25, 1942 - Prince George, Duke of Kent, whose wife Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, was a daughter of Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, was killed in northern Scotland as a passenger in the crash of a Short Sunderland flying boat airplane; the plane was en route from Scotland to Iceland; many questions remain about this mission and Prince George's role in it
*December 4, 1942 - George Michael Alexander Wernher, son of Countess Anastasia de Torby, daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, was KIA at Béja in World War II
*January 12, 1943 - Peter Victor, Prince of Leiningen, son of Friedrich Karl, Fürst zu Leiningen and wife Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia, died before one month old
*October 7, 1943 - Prince Christoph of Hesse-Cassel, whose maternal grandfather was a maternal grandson of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, died in an airplane accident in the Apennine hills near Forlì, in Italy; his body was found two days later; he left three daughters of 10 and 9 years old and a posthumous one, and two sons of 6 and 3 years old
*January 29, 1944 - Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden, whose paternal grandmother was a daughter of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia was killed in an air-raid in World War II in Frankfurt am Main at age 41
*August 10, 1944 - Prince Hans Viktor Alexander Friedrich Ernst Gottfried August Heinrich Albert Waldemar von Schleswig-Holstein, whose maternal grandmother was a daughter of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, was KIA at Zedlinsk in World War II at age 27
*August 27, 1944 - Princess Mafalda of Savoy died at the concentration camp of Buchenwald at age 41, leaving three sons of 18, 16 and 7 years old and a daughter of 3 years old
*October 26, 1944 - Prince Dmitri Borisovich Galitzine, maternal grandson of Duke Georg of Mecklenburg, son of Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia, was KIA at Hartogenborg in World War II
*May 2, 1945 - , son of Prince Heinrich of Prussia, whose paternal grandmother was a daughter of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, died in a clinic in Tutzing, Bavaria because of the lack of blood transfusion facilities; he and his wife fled their home in light of the Russian advance, arriving in Tutzing, where Waldemar was able to receive his last blood transfusion; the American Army overran the area the next day, May 1, 1945, and diverted all medical resources to treat concentration camp victims, preventing Waldemar's German doctor from treating him; Prince Waldemar died the following day at age 56
*August 2, 1946 - Friedrich Karl, Fürst zu Leiningen, husband of Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia, who had been taken captive by the Soviets at the end of World War II, died of starvation in a Russian concentration camp in Mordvinian at age 48
*January 26, 1947 - Prince Gustav Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, presumptive Crown Prince of Sweden, died in a plane crash at age 40, leaving four daughters of 12, 10 and 3 and a son of months
*March 25, 1949 - after being arrested by the Americans by the end of World War II and sentenced to three years in jail, from where he was released in 1948, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, whose paternal grandfather was a maternal grandson of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, died the following year at age 62
*February 2, 1950 - Maria Konstantinovna Karanfilova, whose mother's paternal grandfather was a son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died at age 54
*April 8, 1950 - after being trialed after his involvment in World War II and the Nazi regime, Prince Hubertus of Prussia, whose paternal grandfather was a paternal grandson of a daughter of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, died at age 40
*October 25, 1951 - Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia, first child of Cyril Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia, died of a heart attack at age 44; she was the first of the three siblings to die that way
*August 23, 1960 - Dimitri Petrovich Perevostchikov, whose mother was a granddaughter of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, died in Paris at age 39
*July 6, 1962 - Duke Georg of Mecklenburg, paternal grandson of Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia, died at Sigmaringen of a heart attack at age 62, one day before his daughter
*July 7, 1962 - Duchess Helena of Mecklenburg, daughter of Duke Georg of Mecklenburg, paternal grandson of Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia, died at Ibenburgen at age 37 one day after her father
*January 27, 1963 - Duke Georgi Dimitrievich of Leuchtenberg, whose paternal grandfather was a paternal grandson of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died in Saint Sauveur des Montagnes, ]]Québec]] at age 36
*August 7, 1963 - Princess Xenia Nikolaievna Orlova, daughter of Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia, died at Ennordres at age 42
*April 20, 1966 - Prince Frederick of Prussia, maternal grandson of Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, died at Reinhartshausen after drowning in the Rhine
*May 30, 1966 - Princess Marie Christine of Prussia died from injuries resulting from a car accident at age 18
*September 8, 1967 - Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, second child of Cyril Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia, died of a heart attack at age 59; she was the second of the three siblings to died that way
*December 8, 1967 - Kathleen Norris, second wife of Prince Andrew Romanov, died in San Francisco at age 32
*July 11, 1977 - , heir to the throne of Germany, whose paternal grandmother was a daughter of Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia and whose father was a paternal grandson of a maternal grandson of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, was involved in a severe accident during military maneuvers when he got stuck between two vehicles; although his leg was amputated, he succumbed several weeks later to the trauma and died; he left a one year old son and a posthumous daughter
*January 30, 1978 - Princess Cornelie-Cécile Viktoria Luise of Prussia, posthumous daughter of , was born handicapp
*September 10, 1988 - Randall Crawley, whose wife Marita Georgina Phillips was a maternal granddaughter of Countess Anastasia de Torby, daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, died in air crash at Venaria, Italy at age 38, leaving a 4 year old son, 3 year old daughter and a posthumous son
*February 27, 1989 - Princess Margarita zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen, wife of Karl-Emich Fürst zu Leiningen, paternal grandson of Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia, was killed in a car wreck near Allershausen at age 28, leaving a one year old daughter
*May 13, 1989 - Johanna von Kauffmann, second wife of Prince Dimitri Romanov, died in Copenhagen at age 52
*April 20, 1989 - Thomas Mathew, whose mother was a daughter of Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia, died before age 2
*June 28, 1989 - Dinnies Wilhelm Karl Alexander von der Osten, whose maternal grandfather Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Joseph Christian Olaf of Prussia was a maternal grandson of Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, died in Köln at age 27
*February 28/March 1, 1991 - Nicholas Harold Phillips, whose mother was a daughter of Countess Anastasia de Torby, daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, died of carbon monoxide poisoning at his home at Luton Hoo at age 43, leaving a 14 year old daughter and a 9 year old son
*April 21, 1992 - Vladimir Cyrillovich, Grand Duke of Russia, heir to the throne, also maternal grandson of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, after an arguing with some investors he was trying to bring to Russia, died of a heart attack at age 74; he was the third of the three siblings to die that way
*August 31, 1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales, separated wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whose paternal grandfather was a son of Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, died after a high speed car accident in the Pont d'Alma road tunnel in Paris along with Dodi Al-Fayed and the acting security manager of the Hôtel Ritz Paris, Henri Paul, who was instructed to drive the hired Mercedes-Benz through Paris secretly eluding the paparazzi.
*January 6, 1998 - Prince Cory Christopher Romanov, great-grandson of Prince Rostislav of Russia, died at age 3
*1998 - Enzo-Manfredi Consolo, whose mother was a daughter of Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, died in Rome at age 22
*January 7, 1999 - shortly after the funeral for Emperor Nicholas II in 1998 Prince Rostislav Romanov was taken ill with doctors believing he caught a rare disease from the dust at the church where the funeral took place; he subsequently fell into a coma and died at age 60
*January 17, 2000 - Duke Sergei Sergeievich of Leuchtenberg, whose paternal grandfather was a paternal grandson of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died in Monterey, California at age 44
*November 9, 2000 - Prince Nikolai Rostislavovich Romanov, son of Prince Rostislav of Russia, died at age 55
*2000 - Sophie, Countess of Wessex, wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, whose paternal grandfather was a son of Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, suffers a miscarriage
*January 24, 2001 - Prince Michael Romanov, great-grandson of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, died in Mumbai at age 41, leaving a natural 14 year old daughter who was adopted by her paternal grandfather
*June 18, 2001 - Kirill Andrej, Prince of Yugoslavia, whose paternal grandmother was a daughter of Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia, died at birth
*May 26, 2002 - Count Peter Nieroth, whose mother was a great-granddaughter of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, died in Paris at age 44
*August 1, 2002 - Makena Anna Comisar, whose mother was a daughter of Paul Ilyinsky, was killed in a car accident in which she was the driver in Clermont County, Ohio at age 17
*December 8, 2002 - Duke Nikolai Maximilian Nikolaievich of Leuchtenberg, heir to the House, whose paternal grandfather was a paternal grandson of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, died at age 39
*March 20, 2006 - Ginevra di Savoia Aosta, illegitimate daughter of Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta, whose maternal grandmother was a paternal granddaughter of Maria Pavlovna of Russia, was born with Down syndrome
*May 3, 2007 - Prince Nikita Romanov died after a stroke at age 83
*August 25, 2007 - Prince Fedor Nikitich Romanov, only son of Prince Nikita Romanov, after his father's death commited suicide in Pompano Beach, Florida at age 32