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Duchess of Leuchtenberg Princess of Eichstätt Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia | |||||
Born | Cetinje, Montenegro | 4 January 1868||||
Died | 15 November 1935 Cap d'Antibes, French Third Republic | (aged 67)||||
Burial | St. Michael the Archangel Church (1935–2015) Chapel of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in the Bratsky military cemetery in Moscow (since 2015) | ||||
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House | Petrović-Njegoš | ||||
Father | Nicholas I of Montenegro | ||||
Mother | Milena Vukotić |
Princess Anastasia Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro (4 January [O.S. 23 December 1867] 1868 – 25 November 1935) was the daughter of King Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro (1841–1921) and his wife, Queen Milena (1847–1923). Through her second marriage, she became Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia. She and her sister "Militza" (Princess Milica), having married Russian royal brothers, were known colloquially as the "Montenegrin princesses" or the "Black peril" during the last days of Imperial Russia, and may have contributed to its downfall by the introduction of Grigori Rasputin to the Empress Alexandra.[1]