Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia

Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia, (Russian: Вера Константиновна; 24 April 1906 – 11 January 2001), was the youngest child of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia and his wife Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg|Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna. A great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, she was born in Imperial Russia and was a childhood playmate of Nicholas II’s younger children.[1] She lost much of her family during World War I and the Russian Revolution. At age twelve, she escaped revolutionary Russia, fleeing with her mother and brother George to Sweden. She spent the rest of her long life in exile, first in Western Europe and from the 1950s in the United States.