[ANDREI VLADIMIROVICH (Grand Duke,1879-1956, Russian Major-General, Grandson of Tsar Alexander II, Cousin of Nicholas II) and his wife Mathilda KSCHESSINSKA (1872-1971, Princess Romanovsky-Ksrassinsky)]

Original unsigned photo showing the couple walking together outside, annotated on the verso as Villa Molitos, Paris with the date, 4¼" x 2½", Paris,

Andrei Vladimirovich married the great Russian ballerina Matilda Kschessinska, (1872-1971), in 1921, who had been for a while the mistress of Nicholas II. Slava was the son of her brother, the actor Joseph Kschessinsky, 1868-1942, who stayed in Russia. Slava's mother was another famous ballerina, Serafima Alexandrovna Astafieva, 1876-1934. She opened her school at 152 Kings Road, Chelsea, in 1916, and her son married Margot Luck, one of her pupils.

Item Date:  1939

Stock No:  38865      £150

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