A Georgian and her George

According to the 1906 Washington Tribune, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, brother to Nikolai II of Russia, married a Georgian lady of the Nakashidze family. The marriage was supported by Konstantin Petrovich of Oldenburg who became responsible for the three children (two sons and a daughter) following George's death.
I was just wondering if anyone can give me more info about this that became known at court as the 'Nakashidze Affair'
 
According to the 1906 Washington Tribune, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, brother to Nikolai II of Russia, married a Georgian lady of the Nakashidze family. The marriage was supported by Konstantin Petrovich of Oldenburg who became responsible for the three children (two sons and a daughter) following George's death.
I was just wondering if anyone can give me more info about this that became known at court as the 'Nakashidze Affair'

Brother of Nicholas II, the George A. died in 1899 of tuberculosis. Getting married in 1906, he could only spiritualistic.
 
Sorry if this is confusing but in the wiki article on Grand Duke Constantin Petrovich it speaks of the matter. It would seem George A. met and married this lady - a Caucasian princess - while in Georgia after returning from Bombay via Athens.
 
Thanks. So there may not be truth to the story?

I don't know :) I was looking to see who had put the info up to ask what their sources were.

There may be truth to the fact that there were rumours lol. Need to check the newspaper archives! Email Nicholson Baker, lol

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
Georgian and her George

I don't know :) I was looking to see who had put the info up to ask what their sources were.

There may be truth to the fact that there were rumours lol. Need to check the newspaper archives! Email Nicholson Baker, lol

Best Regards
Grey Wolf

I am a Canadian Nakashidze descendant currently in Tbilisi doing family history research, and was even planning a trip to look around sanitorium in Abastumani. I was wondering if anyone has got behind the tales of Marquise de Fontenoy and the elusive "Markshern7"? Does anyone still believe that GD George married a Nakashidze?
 
This is the most reasonable citation I've found (automatically transcribed from page 5 of the National Tribune, September 6, 1906). That's not to say it's relevant to the question in any way.
Alexander Gregor of Russia who was
quite a brilliant light In diplomatic cir
cles in Washington some years ago is
under examination for appropriating a
diamond ring valued at 10000 belong
ing to Countess Rodelloo de Porzfqs In
the course of a visit to Xerstear Castle
Brittany M Greger said that ho had
no knowledge of the presence of the
rtag in his trunk where it wu found
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON D O THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 6 1000
and he believed It was placed there by
some of the servants The Count and
Countess maintajasd their iisPUbatlorii
EDIT: No wonder I didn't find the source. I was looking in the wrong newspaper!

EDIT: It's actually in the left column of this page.
 
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EDIT: It's actually in the left column of this page.

Thanks. Yes, that is one of many "news" reports obviously all based on the "news articles" written by Marquise de Fontenoy. But are there any other sources that anyone has ever come across that are not based on her?
 
Thanks. Yes, that is one of many "news" reports obviously all based on the "news articles" written by Marquise de Fontenoy. But are there any other sources that anyone has ever come across that are not based on her?

Yeah seconded. There's ABSOLUTELY no poof whatsoever that Grand Duke George ever married, let alone to a Georgian noble. More likely the Duke of Oldenburg did something else to piss off Nicholas II and the Dowager Empress and the Marquise de Fontenoy (who seemed to be a BS queen who had no clue what was really going on) embellished the truth. There's no RUSSIAN source collaborating this piece of fiction, so its obviously false.
 
So, I've found more "info" that George married, namely from Greg King, author of Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra who states:

...George's time in the Caucasus, where he was said to have contracted not one but two morganatic marriages, the first with a native Caucasian woman in 1893 shortly after arriving at Abbas Touman. The union, said to have produced a child, was dissolved after two years. In 1894, he was believed to have contracted a second morganatic marriage, this time with a local woman, Mlle. Orkovska, who bore him two sons and a daughter. These children, allegedly given the surname of Romanovsky, as well as firm evidence to support either of the two unions, disappeared after the Revolution.

Plus, from another source:
Also, in the Enciclopedia Universal Europeo Americana, a very reliable and most detailed encyclopaedia published in 70 volumes in Madrid in 1905-1930, which is full of biographical data on royals, it is said that Grand Duke Georgy Alexandrovich "married morganatically princess Orkowska, who gave him three children".

Another person to also mention George Alexandrovich's marriage is Coryne Hall in her book "Little Mother of Russia" on page 176. Ms Hall's book cites a Swedish source for her p.176 allegation. Plus, Pss Catherine Radziwill seems to be passing on some gossip that was near contemporaneous in St. Petersburg at the time about George marrying in her book "Behind the Veil at the Russian Court". Which makes me wonder is this a case of "where's smoke there's fire"?
 
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Me again, I'm just wondering if the first marriage (I think the possibility exists of them thinking there were two BECAUSE no one perhaps knew the specific dates (Miche Miche and his wife for instance, never told anyone exactly when and where they got married) and thus thought that there were two wives when there may have only been one), if there were two different marriages, might've been dissolved after Alex III found out about it. Alexander disliked morganatic marriages as a rule (probably caused by his dearest father), and he approved only one for a grand duke (can't remember which one) on being told that said GD's father had consented to it. Needless to say, when Alexander spoke to the grand ducal father and found out that daddy-o had no idea what he was talking about, Alex rescinded his permission immediately.

Another thing, in the varying versions of George's death, one or two stand out. One refers to the woman who found him as his wife (others call her a nun or a peasant woman), while another says that the 12-yo boy she sent to fetch help was George's son. Plus, this woman got a private interview etc with Empress Marie F., purportedly to tell her about George's last minutes (but the interview took place behind closed doors with few/no witnesses so who knows what was said) and compared with Marie F's behavior at George's funeral (where she exclaimed while they were lowering the coffin "Let us leave, I cannot stand it anymore!", snatched George's photo off the coffin and stormed out of the church) this seems very odd behavior indeed - although I have no idea how soon after George died this interview took place.
 
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