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Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
Grand Duke + Czar + Empress
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Born
Oct 3, 1860
Hometown
Tsarskoye Selo
Died
Jan 24, 1919
Death Place
Russian Soviet Fe...
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (3 October 1860 N.S. – 30 January 1919 N.S. ) was the eighth child of Tsar Alexander II of Russia by his first wife Empress Maria Alexandrovna. His birth was commemorated by the naming of the city of Pavlodar in… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1860
Birth
Born on October 3, 1860.
TWENTIES
1889
28 Years Old
On 17 June 1889, in St. Petersburg, he married Princess Alexandra of Greece, who bore him two children:
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THIRTIES
1893
32 Years Old
In 1893, the young widower became close to a commoner, Olga Valerianovna Karnovich, and years later requested Nicholas II's permission to marry her, but it was refused, and the couple settled in Paris. On 10 October 1902 they were married in an Orthodox church in Livorno, Italy.
FORTIES
1904
43 Years Old
The Bavarian government granted Olga the title of Countess of Hohenfelsen in 1904, but the marriage caused a scandal in the Russian Court.
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FIFTIES
1915
54 Years Old
In 1915 the Tsar granted Olga and their children the title of Prince and Princesses Paley with the style of Serene Highness, and their children also became Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley and Princesses Irina Pavlovna and Natalia Pavlovna Paley.
1917
56 Years Old
During World War I he was placed in command of the First Corps of the Imperial Guard and later was moved to a new appointment at the Tsar's headquarters. In 1917 he tried to convince the sovereign to grant a Constitution, but his efforts failed.
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After the Bolsheviks seized power, he and his family faced a terrible ordeal. Their properties were confiscated, they lived under constant harassment, and in March 1918 his son Vladimir Paley was exiled to the Urals, where he was executed on 18 July 1918 in a mineshaft near Alapayevsk.
Her efforts were useless: on 29 January 1919, Paul was moved to St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress, and in the first hours of the following day he was shot there, along with his cousins Grand Dukes Dimitry Konstantinovich, Nikolay Mikhailovich and Georgy Mikhailovich.
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