HELEN (Princess of Serbia and Yugoslavia, 1884-1962, Daughter of King Peter I of Yugoslavia and Princess Zorka of Montenegro, wife of Prince John Constantinovich of Russia)

Fine Photo Signed "Helene" showing her three quarters length, standing and looking over her shoulder, 8" x 6" max in an oval, no place, no date, circa

Helen was a niece of Anastasia of Montenegro (or "Stana"), wife of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, and of Milica of Montenegro, wife of Grand Duke Peter Nicolaievich of Russia, the women who introduced Grigori Rasputin to Tsarina Alexandra.
Her husband John was imprisoned first at Yekaterinburg, Siberia and later moved to Alapaevsk, a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast by the Bolsheviks, where he was murdered on 18th July 1918 along with Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich and others. They were herded into the forest by the local Bolsheviks, pushed into an abandoned mineshaft and grenades were then hurled into the mineshaft. John had persuaded her to leave and she went to Yekaterinburg, the only member of the Imperial family to try to see the family. She was not allowed to see the Tsar or his family. She was then imprisoned in Perm for 4 months during which time the Bolshevik guards brought a woman claiming to be the Tsar's youngest daughter Anastasia to her but she claimed not to recognise her. Because of her foreign birth they decided not to murder and the King of Montenegro and the Serbian Embassy got her out of Russia. She lived till 1962 but didn't write her memoirs though there are rumours that she wrote a private memoir for her children.


Item Date:  1920

Stock No:  40156      £1275

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