the last surviving legitimate grandchild of Nicholas I of Russia. He was buried there in Roquebrune. His wife, Xenia, died in Hampton Court Palace in 1960. While in exile after 1917, he became fascinated with archaeology and conducted a number of successful expeditions. Freemasonry Alexander was a "mystical freemason" and spirit, called himself a rosicrucian and philalethes. Was in the masonic "Velikoknyiajeskaia Lodge" (St. Petersburg, after 1907 to 1917), the founder of the "Admiralty Lodge" (St. Petersburg, 1910), who worked on the ritual Philalethes. According to the Encyclopaedia by Serkov, Alexander was a master of the lodge "Karma", who worked in the years 1910–1919 Swedish Rite. Honours and awards Ancestry References 1866 births 1933 deaths Military personnel from Tbilisi People from Tiflis Governorate Russian grand dukes House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov Members of the State Council (Russian Empire) Russian anti-communists Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France 19th-century people from the Russian Empire 20th-century archaeologists Russian Freemasons Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 1st class Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Russia) Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary Knights of the Holy Sepulchre