[PAUL ALEXANDROVICH (Grand Duke, 1860-1919, 6th son and youngest child of Tsar Alexander II and Maria Alexandrovna, General, executed in the Revolution)]

Rare unsigned Cabinet photo by Ch. Bergamasco, showing him head and shoulders in an oval, as a young man, 6½" x 4½", no place, no date but circa

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.
In August 1918, he was arrested and taken to prison in St. Petersburg. His health, already bad, declined sharply, and his wife did all she could to have him released. 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.
They were buried in a mass grave in the Fortress, the Bolsheviks having refused the distraught Princess Paley the right to bury her husband. His body and those of his three cousins were found in 2011.

Item Date:  1910

Stock No:  38475      £775

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