Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia was a son of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, a grandson of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and a first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II, Marie of Edinburgh, King G
Photograph, 1913
Dmitri's parents: Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich and his first wife, Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark in 1889.
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, his wife Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna with Grand Duchess Maria Pavlova, and Grand Duke Paul with his son Dimitri on his lap
Grand Duke Dmitri and his sister Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna Jr. with their uncle Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, who was their guardian and foster father
Grigori Rasputin
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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic and faith healer. He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, through whom he gained conside
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia
…interest in his military career, leading instead a fast life. Through his friendship with Felix Yusupov, he took part in the assassination of the mystic Grigori Rasputin, who was seen to have an undue and insidious influence on the Tsar and his wife. Banished to the war front in Persia, he escaped the Russian Revolution…
Portrait of Rasputin, c. 1910s
Pokrovskoye in 1912
Rasputin with his children
Makary, Bishop Theofan and Rasputin, 1909