Dimitrii Pavlovich, Grand Duke of Russia diaries and personal record books

Grand Duke Dimitrii Pavlovich of Russia (1891-1942), a Russian Grand Duke of the Imperial House of Romanov, was one of the few Romanovs to escape murder by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. He was the second child and only son of Grand Duke Pavel Aleksandrovich Romanov and Alexandra von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, Princess of Greece and Denmark; was a grandson of Tsar Alexander II of Russia; and a first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Dimitri and his sister Maria were primarily raised by their aunt and uncle, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia and his wife Elizabeth, the elder sister of Tsarina Alexandra, as their mother had died at his birth. He is known for being involved in the murder of the mystic faith healer, Grigori Rasputin. After Rasputin's murder in late 1916, Dimitri Pavlovich was sent away to the Persian front, consequently escaping execution by the Bolsheviks. Later he escaped to London. In 1927 he married American heiress, Anna Audrey Emery, and they had a son, Prince Pavel [Paul] Romanov-Ilyinsky (1928-2004), who later became the Mayor of Palm Beach, Florida. They were divorced in 1937. He died in Switzerland in 1942.