Prince Kirill Alexandrovich Romanovsky-Iskander, or Cyril Iskander Romanov , or simply Prince Iskander, was one of the last two members of the House of Romanov to remain alive in Russia following the Revolution.
Background
He was the son of Prince Romanovsky-Iskander (né Alexander Nikolaevich Romanov) and his first wife, Olga Iosifovna Rogowska. He was a grandson of Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich, the disgraced grandson of Tsar Nicholas I. Thus, Kirill was a patrilineal great-great-grandson of Nicholas I.
Career
Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaevich"s son, Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich, was exiled to Central Asia in disgrace for stealing his mother"s diamonds. Grand Duke Nicholas established a palace in Tashkent and lived in grand style where he sired a son, whom Tsar Alexander III (his great-uncle) granted the title Prince Iskander (Iskander was the Arabic form of Alexander). This prince, in turn, fathered the Prince Iskander.
He had a sister, Princess Natalia Romanovskaya-Iskander (1917 - 1999).
His father remarried also, to Natalia Hanykova (30 December 1893 – 20 April 1982) in 1930 in Paris. They lived their entire lives in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Membership
He was born in Tashkent, a member of the Constantinovichi branch of the Russian Imperial Family.