Princess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia
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Princess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia, (April 24, 1906 - January 11, 2001), was the youngest child of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia and his wife Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mavrikievna.
[edit] Early life
Nine-year-old Vera was with her father when he died in 1915. In a letter to her brother, she later described how she was sitting with her father in his study, when Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich began gasping. His youngest daughter managed to push open a heavy door between her parents' studies, pushing aside several heavy plants that stood in front of the door, and ran to her mother crying that her father couldn't breathe. Her mother ran after her, but the grand duke had already died.[1]
[edit] Revolution
Vera lost much of her family during World War I and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Three of her brothers were executed by the Bolsheviks and another brother was killed in action during World War I. Twelve-year-old Vera escaped to Sweden aboard the Swedish boat Angermanland in October 1918 with her mother, her brother Prince Georgi Konstantinovich of Russia, and her young niece and nephew.
She died in Nyack, New York in 2001. She never married and left no children.[2]
