Russian Royalty, Artist, and Author. He was a grandnephew of Russia's last Tsar, Nicholas II, and following the death of Prince Dimitri Romanov in 2016, a claimant to the headship of the House of Romanov. He was born in London and was a godson of the future King Edward VIII. He was privately tutored as a child and received a traditional Russian education befitting a member of the Russian Imperial family. After the age of twelve, he studied at Haileybury and the Imperial Service College. Romanoff served in the British Royal Navy during World War II, and following the war he immigrated to the United States, becoming a naturalized US citizen on December 20, 1954. He studied sociology and criminology at the University of California, Berkeley and was employed in a variety of jobs, including real estate broker, shipping company broker, carpenter, and furniture designer. He increasingly directed his energies toward painting and photography, particularly following his retirement. He was an untrained artist, his work best described as folk art. He published his autobiography, "The Boy Who Would be Tsar," in 2007.
Russian Royalty, Artist, and Author. He was a grandnephew of Russia's last Tsar, Nicholas II, and following the death of Prince Dimitri Romanov in 2016, a claimant to the headship of the House of Romanov. He was born in London and was a godson of the future King Edward VIII. He was privately tutored as a child and received a traditional Russian education befitting a member of the Russian Imperial family. After the age of twelve, he studied at Haileybury and the Imperial Service College. Romanoff served in the British Royal Navy during World War II, and following the war he immigrated to the United States, becoming a naturalized US citizen on December 20, 1954. He studied sociology and criminology at the University of California, Berkeley and was employed in a variety of jobs, including real estate broker, shipping company broker, carpenter, and furniture designer. He increasingly directed his energies toward painting and photography, particularly following his retirement. He was an untrained artist, his work best described as folk art. He published his autobiography, "The Boy Who Would be Tsar," in 2007.
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