Posted by M.Sjostrom on 27/6/2009, 15:20:17, in reply to "Parentage of Alexander Dmitrevich Den, 1908-1979"
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I can easily believe that the monarch would allow for a noble title to be inherited by an adoptee, if the adoptee is a natural son of the monarch's cousin, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich.
In that way, the monarch was spared from creating yet another noble title and surname, for a Romanov offshoot.
This sounds a good reason why captain Mitri (Dimitri) von Daehn, heir of Sippola manor in Finland, was allowed to extend his noble rank to his adopted son, Alexander.
Mitri von Daehn's own parents were Voldemar von Daehn, lord of Sippola, Minister State Secretary of Finland, and his wife, princess Nina Dmitrevich Svyatopolk-Mirskaia, she was from Georgia.
--Previous Message--
: Several months ago, there was a discussion
: here about this boy, who was (unusually)
: adopted in Switzerland by Dmitri Den or
: Dehn, and his wife Sophia Sheremeteva (GD
: Maria Nikolaevna's granddaughter). The
: discussion was about the question of his
: true parentage.
:
: Thanks to poster Svetabel on the AP board
: who uncovered this story through her own
: research on the Romanov family, it appears
: that the mother of Alexander was Varvara
: Vorontsov Dashkova, and his father Grand
: Duke Sergei Mikhailovich. This is an
: interesting twist to Sergei's story, he
: being the luckless swain of Kschessinska who
: raised her son as his own while she
: two-timed him with Andrei Vladimirovich. How
: ironic for Sergei that while he gave this
: dubious son his patronymic his own son was
: also growing up under someone else's
: name....
:
:
: http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=6444.msg391580#msg391580
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