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Born Natalia Sheremetyev on June 26, 1880 in Moscow, Russia, she would become part of the Romanov Dynasty.The daughter of a Moscow lawyer, she was a beautiful girl who first married at 16 to Sawa Mamontov, the music director of the Bolshoi Theatre. She soon divorced him and married Captain Wulfert, an army officer serving in the Regiment of Cuirassiers under Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov , ( 1878- 1918) brother of Tsar Nicholas II.
Natalia was twenty eight years old when she met Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov, and it was said to be love at first sight for both parties. They soon became inseparable lovers, and the Grand Duke wrote to his brother the Tsar, as required, requesting his permission for them to marry. Not only because Natalia was divorced but also because she was not of Royal blood, the Tsar refused to approve the marriage. For some time Grand Duke Mikhail lived with Natalia, and she gave birth to a son, Georgi on July 24, 1910.
Eventually Mikhail ignored his brother's decree and, in a great love story, secretly married Natalia in Vienna on October 15, 19111911 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). Events January-June January 1 Northern Territory is separated from South Australia January 3 In London, a shootout between Russian anarchists and the Scots Guard January 10 Major Jimmi in a Serb Orthodox Church . The significance of the venue was that this marriage could not be put aside by Tsar Nicholas or the Russian Orthodox ChurchThe Russian Orthodox Church is that body of Christians who are united under the Patriarch of Moscow, who in turn is in communion with the other patriarchs of the Eastern Orthodox Church. In this way Russian Orthodox believers are in communion with all oth. She and Mikhail were then exiled to England in disgrace.
Upon the outbreak of WWI, Mikhail Alexandrovich requested Nicholas' permission to return home and return to the army, with the understanding his wife and children would certainly come too. He returned home to prove himself to be one of Russia's greatest generals, earning the Military's highest honor, the St.George Cross. He, unlike his brother the Tsar, was a great military leader.
In March 1917Events January 2 The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank. January 22 World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe. January 25 The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million January 25 Anti- after Nicholas abdicated in his favor, Grand Duke Mikhail refused to succeed his brother as Tsar until it was decided by the will of the people. Unfortunately, the people's will would never be heard. Mikhail and his family were first placed under house arrest in Gatchina, then later Mikhail was exiled to the remote city of Perm. Mikhail manage to smuggle his son and step-daughter out of the country to join his mother's family in Denmark, and later Natalia obeyed her husband's order and escaped from Russia with a Danish passport, disguised as a Red CrossThe terms Red Cross and Red Crescent are often used as short names for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, or its two leading international organs, the ICRC and the IFRCS. This page is about the symbol itself, see respective articles fo nurse. In July 1918, her husband was murdered in PermFor the geologic period see Permian. For the hair treatment see Permanent wave. Perm (, pop. 1,000,100 as of 2003) is a city in Russia, on the banks of the Kama River, at the foot of the Ural Mountains the border between Europe and Asia. It is the capital, Russia by the ChekaThe Cheka in Russian) was the first Soviet state security organization. Actually called the Vecheka , it was created on December 20, 1917 and headed by Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky. Vecheka stands for All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counte.
Natalia Romanova died in Paris on January 26January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 339 days remaining (340 in leap years). Events 1340 King Edward III of England is declared King of France. 1500 Vicente Yanez Pinzon become the first European to discover Brazil., 1952 and is buried in Cimetière de Passy in Paris with their only son Georgi Romanov (Prince Brassov), who died at age 21 in an automobile accident on July 22, 1931.
Brassova, Princess
Brassova, Princess
