Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia
Russian prince
Died when: 81 years 351 days (983 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia (7 July [O.S. 24 June] 1907 – 24 June 1989) was the sixth son and youngest child of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia.
He was a nephew of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.Born in Imperial Russia during the reign of his paternal second cousin and maternal uncle Nicholas II, he was on vacation in Crimea at the fall of the Russian monarchy.
He was joined there by his immediate family.They escaped the fate of many of his relatives killed by the Bolsheviks.
He left Russia in April 1919, at age 11.In the late 1920s, he emigrated to the United States where he met Princess Natalia Golitsyna.
They married in 1931.The couple had one daughter and lived for decades in Woodside, California.
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