Dear Countrymen!

It is with deep sadness that I must inform you of the repose on 13 March 2007 of our relative, Her Serene Highness Princess of the Blood Ekaterina Ivanovna. She was 92 years old.

The deceased princess was the daughter of His Highness, Prince of the Imperial Blood Ivan Konstantinovich, who died a martyr’s death at Alapaevsk, along with the Holy New Martyrs Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fedorovna and the nun Barbara, with Prince Ivan Konstantinovich’s brothers, Prince Konstantine Konstantinovich and Igor Konstantinovich, with Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich, and with Prince V. P. Paley.

While living in exile, Princess Ekaterina Ivanovna, heeding the precepts of her own heart and the will of her August Mother, Princess Elena Petrovna, scrupulously and faithfully observed the laws and traditions of Our House. Her Serene Highness was always interested in events taking place in the Motherland, and she sincerely loved Russia.

I ask all our countrymen to pray for the repose of the soul of the newly-departed Princess Ekaterina Ivanovna. May the Lord grant rest to her soul in the abode of the righteous.