1
Essentials

Born: At St. Petersburg on January 21, 1897
Christened:
Godparents:
Name day:
Nickname: Bodya
Parents: Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich and Olga Valerianovna Karnovich (Divorcee Pistohlkors )
Died: At Alapaievsk, on 17/18 July 1918 n.st.
Buried: After being thrown alive in a mine pit and dying there, remains recovered and awaiting burial. Transferred from Alapaievsk to Kharbin and thence to Peking. Perhaps buried there in, or close to the Russian church.
Relationship to author: Second Cousin of Father.
Principal residence in Russia: Tsarskoe Selo.
Diaries: Apparently none survived if they ever existed.
Biography: None known.
Present Episodic Biography in 11 Episodes:
1. Essentials.
2. Introduction.
3. Childhood and Adolescence.
4. The War.
5. The Days of the Abdication.
6. After the Halcyon Days the Tempest Approaches.
7. Exile.
8. Personal summary of a ROMANOV man of Twenty-one.
9. That Fatal July.
10. In Search of Eternal Rest.
11. References.
In All: About 8800 words with 6 Illustrations:
1. As a child with mother and sister Natalie.
2. Page Corps cadet.
3. In 1916 as officer, With parents and sisters.
4. Map of Russia.
5. House on Nikolaevskaya str. in Vyatka.
6. Map of Ekaterinburg and Alapaievsk area.

Immediate Family Tree
1 - Wladimir

1st Generation
2 - Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich (1860 -1919)
3 - Olga Valerianovna Karnovich (1865-1929)

2nd Generation
4 - Emperor Alexander II Nicolaevich of Russia (1818-1881)
5 - Princess Marie of Hessen-Darmstadt (1824 -1880)
6 - Valerian Gavrilovich Karnovich (1823-1891)
7 - Olga Vasilievna Meszarosh (1830-1919)

3rd Generation
8 - Emperor Nicholas I Pavlovich of Russia (1796-1855)
9 - Empress Alexandra Feodorovna - Pr.ss Charlotte of Prussia (1798-1860)
10 - Grand Duke Ludwig II of Hessen un bei Rhein (1777-1848)
11 - Princess Wilhelmine of Baden (1788-1836)
12 - Gavriil Stepanovich Karnovich (1801-1860)
13 - Ljubovj Alexeevna Goryainov
14 - Vasili Ivanovich Meszarosh
15 - Uliana Egorovna Paley-Gurkowsky

4-th Generation
16 - Emperor Paul I Petrovich (1754-1801).
17 - Empress Marie Feodorovna - Princess Sophie-Dorothee of Wurttemberg (1759-1828).
18 - King Friedrich-Wilhelm III of Prussia (1770-1840).
19 - Princess Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776-1810).
20 - Grand Duke Ludwig I of Hessen and by Rhine ( 1753-1830).
21 - Landgravine Louise of Hessen-Darmstadt (1761-1829).
22 - Hereditary Prince Karl-Ludwig of Baden (1755 - 1801).
23 - Landgravine Amalie of Hessen-Darmstadt (1754 - 1832).
24 - Stepan Stepanovich Karnovich jun, (circa 1754-Before 1832)
25 - Alexandra Ivanovna Samarin
26 - Alexey Goryainov
27 - n n
28 - Ivan Meszarosh
29 - n n
30 - Egor Paley-Gurkowsky
31 - n n

Close relatives of suitable age (+/- 5 years )
The listing of close relatives in this case is almost redundant information as there was hardly ever a possibility of establishing any friendship in childhood with descendants of Grand Duke Paul's brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts. (HP)

2
Introduction
--- That Wladimir Paley was a young poet of great promise, there cannot be any doubt. His translation in Alexandrine verses in French, of Grand Duke Constantine's tragedy "The Tsar of Judaea" was a remarkeable feat. Sadly many of his best works were lost during the revolution, but enough has survived to enable us to regret the untimely death of a possibly great Russian poet. Among the verse in Russian we know of "Sappho" a long poem composed between August 1916 and October 1917 and another poem "Annunciation" composed in October 1917, Other vedrse were "Andreevsky Cathedral", a sonnet written on December 23 o.st. 1916, some minor verse written in 1916/1917 such as "A Fairy Tale", "Phantoms", "Poets" and "Night Time"
--- On the day Wladimir Paley refused Uritsky's offer to disown as father Grand Duke Paul, so as to avoid being exiled to the Urals with the other Romanovs he becomes by right a Romanov. Not he a man to say, as did in 1917 Grand Duke Kirill Wladimirovich: I am ashamed to belong to the Romanov family.
In a time of danger Wladimir Paley on the contrary chose to show he was proud of being a Romanov. For this reason, I consider that since March 1918 His Serene Highness Prince Wladimir Pavlovich Paley, became His Highness Prince Wladimir Pavlovich of Russia. A posthumous but well deserved recognition. (HP)
--- Identification of sources of Nicholas Romanov:
(HP) - Nicholas Romanov - Opinions, comments and sundry readings.
(From 1 to 9999 + HP) - Nicholas Romanov comments complementing text of source.
(From 1 to 9999) = Book property of Nicholas Romanov.
(10001 to 19999) = Book not property of Nicholas Romanov.
(40001 to 49999) = Letters received by Nicholas Romanov
(40 & >>>> /...... ) = Documentation in archives of Nicholas Romanov.

3
Childhood and Adolescence

1897
--- Birth at St. Petersburg on January 21 n.st. of Wladimir, son of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich and of Olga Valerianovna von Pistohlkors, then wife of Col. Erik von Pistohlkors. (HP)
--- Since, to the best of my knowledge, at the time of the birth of Wladimir, Olga Valerianovna was not yet divorced, the son without doubt could only be registered under the family name of von Pistohlkors. which explains the opinions which later expressed both Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra. (HP)

1901
--- Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna and her brother Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich
noticed on their father's desk, in small gold frame the photograph of boy four or five years old with long curls and a dress down to the ankles. When they asked who it was Grand Duke Paul began to talk of some..........

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