His mother died of Chapter House of Romanov

in Madrid on the night of May 24 at the 96 th year of life he died mother head of the Imperial House of Romanov Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna, born Bagration of Mukhrani. She was the widow of Grand Duke Vladimir Romanov, the great-grandson of Emperor Alexander II, and mother of the current head of the House of Romanov Maria Vladimirovna. "Yesterday it visited the parish of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Madrid. In the evening came the deterioration, and the Empress was taken to the hospital, where she died. All the time with her had a daughter, the head of the House of Romanov Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, "- said the head of the Office of the House of Romanov, Alexander sunset. Grand duchess bequeathed to bury it in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg next to her husband Vladimir Kirillovich, who died in 1992. But the date of the funeral of relatives of the deceased have not decided yet.