Antique Russian Royalty Princess Signed Royal Document Grand Duchess Romanov RU

  
For your consideration is an exceedingly rare and historically important c. 1924 Imperial Russian Royalty autograph album page, hand-signed by unidentified Russian Prince, unidentified Russian Prince, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna of Russia, and Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia (page 2). Very rare grouping on one page. Royalty autographs / signatures are manuscript in black ink. Minor water stain to lower left hand corner of paper, as pictured. Page will be carefully removed from album. Album page measures approximately 5.5" 6.5".

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna of Russia Russian:, ne Princess Elisabeth Auguste Marie Agnes of Saxe-Altenburg; 25 January O. 13 January 1865 24 March 1927 was a Russian Grand Duchess by marriage. She was the wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (18581915). Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia, also Vera Konstantinovna (Russian: ; 24 April 1906 11 January 2001), was the youngest child of Grand Duke Konstantine Konstantinovich of Russia and his wife, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna.

A great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, she was born in the Russian Empire and was a childhood playmate of the younger children of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia. [1] She lost much of her family during World War I and the Russian Revolution. At age twelve, she escaped revolutionary Russia, fleeing with her mother and brother George to Sweden. She spent the rest of her long life in exile, first in Western Europe and from the 1950s in the United States.