Hvem daterte Mathilde Kschessinska?

Mathilde-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinska (31 August [O.S. 19 August] 1872 – 6 December 1971), also known as Princess Romanovskaya-Krasinskaya upon her marriage, was a Polish-Russian ballerina from the noble Krzesiński family. Her father, Felix Kschessinsky, and her brother and sister danced in Saint Petersburg. She was a mistress of the future Emperor Nicholas II of Russia before his marriage, and later the wife of his cousin Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia. She was known in the West as Mathilde Kschessinska or Matilda Kshesinskaya.

Nikolaj II (1868–1918) av huset Holsten-Gottorp-Romanov var tsar av Det russiske keiserriket fra 1894, da hans far Aleksander III døde, og frem til han abdiserte den 15. mars 1917. Han abdiserte etter å ha blitt satt i fangenskap i Tsarskoje Selo utenfor Petrograd av Russlands provisoriske regjering under februarrevolusjonen.

Moren var født prinsesse Dagmar av Danmark (født i København 1847, død i København 1928), datter av kong Christian IX av Danmark og dronning Louise (av Hessen-Kassel). Dagmar var tante både til dronning Maud og kong Haakon VII. Som tsarina tok hun navnet Maria Feodorovna.

Kerenskij-regjeringen bestemte i august 1917 å flytte tsaren og hans familie til Tobolsk i Ural, angivelig for å sikre dem bedre mot mulige anslag fra revolusjonære. Etter at bolsjevikene hadde tatt makten i oktoberrevolusjonen ble forholdene for fangene stadig forverret, og den 30. april 1918 ble de overført til kjøpmann Ipatievs hus i Jekaterinburg. Her ble Tsar Nikolaj etter ordre fra Lenin henrettet sammen med sin hustru, Alexandra (av Hessen) og parets fem barn den 17. juli 1918.

Russisk høyesterett slo i september 2008 fast at tsar Nikolaj II ble drept urettmessig og at hans omdømme skulle rehabiliteres.

Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович; 7 October 1869 – 18 July 1918) was the fifth son and sixth child of Grand Duke Michael Nikolaievich of Russia and a first cousin of Alexander III of Russia.

He was born and raised in the Caucasus, where his father was viceroy. In 1881 the family moved to Saint Petersburg. He became a close friend of the then Tsarevich Nicholas. They grew apart upon Nicholas II's marriage and accession to the throne. Grand Duke Sergei remained a bachelor living at his father's palace in the imperial capital. He had a long affair with the famous ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska, who had previously been the mistress of Nicholas II. She was also later involved with Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich. Sergei recognized Mathilde's son as his own and remained their protector until his death.

Following family tradition, Grand Duke Sergei pursued a military career. He served as General Inspector of the Artillery with the rank of Adjutant General. During World War I he was chief of the artillery department, a position he was forced to resign amid controversy. He was then appointed Field Inspector General of Artillery at Stavka. After the fall of the monarchy, he remained in the former Imperial capital keeping a low profile. With the ascension of the Bolsheviks to power, he was sent to internal Russian exile.

He was murdered by the Bolsheviks along with several other Romanov relatives and his personal secretary at Alapayevsk on 18 July 1918, one day after the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his immediate family at Yekaterinburg.