WHO IS ROSTISLAV ROMANOFF?

Rostislav Romanoff is a talented American artist whose creativity as a painter is gaining increasing recognition.  He was born in Illinois, U.S.A. in 1985, the son of the late Rostislav Romanoff and his wife Christia Ipsen.  He is a member of the Romanov Family Association, and he now lives in the United Kingdom. He is said to have once studied Russian as a second language.

Rostislav's father and grandfather were also both named Rostislav.  His father, Rostislav Romanoff (1938-1999), was an American banker who lived at the end of his life in England.  His grandfather, H.H. Prince Rostislav of Russia (1902-1978), a Russian dynast, was a son of Grand Duke Alexander of Russia and a nephew of Emperor Nicholas II.

Although a direct male-line descendant of the Romanoff family, Rostislav, like his late father, is not a member of the Russian Imperial House and is not in line to the throne.  Rostislav's grandfather, Prince Rostislav of Russia, was, however, a member of the Russian Imperial House. Because in 1928 Prince Rostislav of Russia contracted a non-dynastic marriage not in conformity with the laws of the Russian Imperial House, his descendants do not have dynastic status.

In 1924, Rostislav's grandfather, Prince Rostislav of Russia, signed a written oath of loyalty to Grand Duke Kirill as Emperor and Head of the Imperial House and to Kirill's son Grand Duke Wladimir as Tsesarevich and Heir to the Throne.  This document was also signed by Prince Rostislav's father (Grand Duke Alexander of Russia), and four of Rostislav's brothers.

On 24 September 2013, Rostislav-George Rostislavovich Georganta Romanoff was born, the son of Rostislav Romanoff and Miss Foteini Georgante of Athens. The couple were married civilly in the UK in October of 2019, and in an Orthodox religious ceremony in Paris in September 2021.