Prince Kirill Romanovsky-Iskander
Prince Kirill Alexandrovich Romanovsky-Iskander, or Cyril Iskander Romanov, or simply Prince Iskander, was one of the last two members of the House of Romanov to remain alive in Russia following the [Russian Russian Revolution (1917)|Revolution (1917)|Revolution].
Family
He was the son of Prince Romanovsky-Iskander, né, and his first wife, Olga Iosifovna Rogowska. He was a grandson of Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich, the disgraced grandson of Tsar Nicholas I; thus, Kirill was a patrilineal great-great-grandson of Nicholas I.Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaevich's son, Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich, was exiled to Central Asia in disgrace for stealing his mother's diamonds. Grand Duke Nicholas established a palace in Tashkent and lived in grand style where he sired a son, whom Tsar Alexander III granted the title Prince Iskander. This prince, in turn, fathered the Prince Iskander.
His second cousins were Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Early life
He was born in Tashkent, a member of the Constantinovichi branch of the Russian Imperial Family. He had a sister, Princess Natalia Romanovskaya-Iskander. Their parents, who had been married since 1912, separated, and in 1924 Kirill and his sister moved with their mother to Moscow, where Olga remarried to Nicholas Androsov.Kirill's stepfather adopted him and his sister, and Prince Iskander was renamed Kirill Nikolaievich Androsov. His father also remarried, to Natalia Hanykova, in 1930 in Paris.