Elisabetta di Sasso Ruffo
Donna Elisabetta Fabrizievna dei duchi di Sasso-Ruffo dei principi di Sant' Antimo (26 December 1886 – 29 October 1940), known after her marriage as Princess Andrew of Russia or Princess Andrei Romanovskya, was a Russian aristocrat. She was the daughter of the exiled Italian nobleman Frabrizio Ruffo, Duke of Sasso-Ruffo and the Russian noblewoman Princess Natalia Alexandrovna Mescherskaya. She married, firstly, to Imperial Russian military officer Major General Alexander Alexandrovitch Friederici and, secondly, to Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia. When she married Prince Andrei, it was the last royal wedding to take place in Russia until 2021. During her second marriage, she fled Russia aboard HMS Marlborough following the Russian Revolution and lived abroad as a White émigré in France and the United Kingdom. Elisabetta was killed in 1940 during a German air raid on Hampton Court Palace.
| Elisabetta di Sasso Ruffo | |
|---|---|
| Princess Andrew of Russia | |
| Born | Elisabetta Fabrizievna dei duchi di Sasso-Ruffo dei principi di Sant' Antimo 26 December 1886 Kharkov, Russian Empire |
| Died | 29 October 1940 (aged 53) Richmond upon Thames, London, England |
| Burial | Church Road Cemetery Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead |
| Spouses | Alexander Alexandrovitch Friederici
(m. 1907; div. 1916)Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia
(m. 1918; died 1940) |
| Issue | Elisabeth Alexandrovna Friederici Princess Xenia Andreevna Prince Michael Andreevich Prince Andrew Andreievich |
| House | Ruffo (by birth) Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov (by marriage) |
| Father | Fabrizio Ruffo, Duke of Sasso-Ruffo |
| Mother | Princess Natalia Alexandrovna Mescherskaya |