Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia


Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia was the third child of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia and his wife, the former Princess Milica of Montenegro.

Marriages and children

Nadejda was engaged before the outbreak of World War I to Prince Oleg Constantinovich of Russia, who was killed in action. She married Prince Nicholas Vladimirovich Orlov in the Crimea in April 1917. They were among the Romanovs who escaped the Russian Revolution in 1919 aboard the British ship. Their baby daughter Princess Irina Orlova, born in March 1918, was the youngest passenger aboard the ship.
The Orlovs had two daughters:
Princess Nadejda divorced in 1940. She died in Chantilly, France in 1988. Her daughters left descendants.

Honours