Photo of Grand Duke Andrey Vladimirovich, with his own autograph dedication, 1899

An original and rather rare picture in excellent condition. Portrait cabinet. It was taken in the photo studio of the famous St. Petersburg photographer L. Gorodetsky in Tsarskoye Selo. The photo shows Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich (1879-1956) in a ceremonial uniform. Photo with an autograph dedication: "To Vladimir Nikolaevich Domanevsky in memory / Andrey 1899" (Vladimir Nikolaevich Domanevsky (1878-1937), Lieutenant General, participant of the White Movement in the East of Russia). Guarantee of authenticity. Andrey Vladimirovich's pictures are extremely rare, we recommend it!

Grand Duke Andrey Vladimirovich (Andrey Vladimirovich Romanov; May 2 (14), 1879, Tsarskoye Selo — October 30, 1956, Paris) was the fourth son of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich and Maria Pavlovna, grandson of Alexander II. He joined the service in 1895. In 1902, he graduated from the Mikhailovsky Artillery College, from where he was released as a second lieutenant to the 5th battery of the Guards Horse Artillery Brigade. Ranks: Adjutant wing (1899), lieutenant (1902), staff captain (1906), captain (for distinction, 1908), Colonel (1910), Major General of the Retinue (1915). In 1902, he entered the Alexander Military Law Academy, from which he graduated from the 1st class in 1905 and was enrolled in the military judicial department. From June 19, 1905 to April 23, 1906, he was seconded to the Military Law Academy to translate foreign military criminal statutes.

On August 29, 1910, he was appointed commander of the 5th battery of the Life Guards Horse Artillery Brigade, and on July 8, 1911, he was appointed commander of the 6th Don Cossack Artillery Battery. He held the last position until February 26, 1914. From March 2, 1911, he was a senator who was not present in the departments. In addition, from May 2, 1879, he was the chief of the 130th infantry regiment of Kherson, and from January 10, 1912, he was an honorary Cossack of the Verkhne-Kurmoyarsk stanitsa.

Since the beginning of the First World War, he was a member of the General Staff. On May 7, 1915, he was appointed commander of the Life Guards Horse Artillery, leaving the adjutant wing and enlisting in the Guards Horse Artillery, and on August 15 of the same year he was promoted to major General with enlistment in the Retinue of His Imperial Majesty and with confirmation as commander of the Life Guards Horse Artillery. On April 3, 1917, the commander of the Life Guards Horse Artillery, Major General Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich, who was listed in the Guards Horse Artillery and consisted of the Don Cossack Artillery, was dismissed from service, upon request, with a uniform.

After the revolution, he lived with his mother and brother Boris in Kislovodsk (Kshesinskaya and their son Vova also arrived there — the Grand Duke's connection with her was "hidden" from Andrei's mother). On August 7, 1918, the brothers were arrested and transported to Pyatigorsk, but released a day later under house arrest. On the 13th, Boris, Andrey and his adjutant, Colonel Fyodor Fedorovich Kube, fled to the mountains, to Kabarda, on a pair line, where they hid until the end of September.

Since February 1920, he has been in exile. In March 1920, he arrived in the French Cap d'ai on the Riviera, where Kshesinskaya owned a villa. In 1920, Andrei's mother died in Contrexeville, and in 1921, in Cannes, he married 49-year-old Matilda Feliksovna Kshesinskaya, a famous ballerina. A legitimist monarchist, he actively supported his elder brother, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, who in 1924 assumed the title of Emperor of All Russia in exile. He was the August representative of Emperor Cyril I in France and chairman of the Sovereign's Conference with him.

During the German occupation of France, Andrei Vladimirovich's son, Vladimir Krasinsky, as a member of the "pro-Soviet" Union of Young Russians, was arrested by the Gestapo and ended up in a concentration camp. My father was almost distraught with grief, appealed to various groups and individuals of Russian emigration and received no support anywhere. After 144 days of his son's imprisonment, he managed to get the charges of engaging in "harmful" activities for Germany dropped from his son, and Vladimir Krasinsky was released. After the death of Boris Vladimirovich in 1943, he remained the last Grand Duke of the House of Romanov for 13 years. After the death of Andrei Vladimirovich in 1956, there were no grand dukes of the Romanovs born before February 1917. Honorary Chairman of the Izmailov Union (1925), also honorary Chairman of the Union of Mutual Assistance of Officers of the Life Guards Horse Artillery. Chairman of the Russian Historical and Genealogical Society (Paris), since 1947 — Chairman of the Guards Association.