Family
Rostislav was married three times. He married first Princess Alexandra Pavlovna Galitzine (7 May 1905 – 5 December 2006) on 1 September 1928 in Chicago. They had one child before divorcing in 1944.
- Prince Rostislav Rostislavovich (3 December 1938 – 7 January 1999).
Rostislav married Alice Eilken (b. 30 May 1923) on 24 November 1944. The couple had one child before they divorced on 11 April 1951.
- Prince Nicholas Rostislavovich (9 September 1945 – 9 November 2000) the owner of a direct mail business.
Rostislav married Hedwig Maria Gertrud Eva von Chappuis (6 December 1905 – 9 January 1997) on 19 November 1954. No children were born of this marriage.
It is often alleged that Rostislav's marriage with Princess Alexandra Galitzina would have been morganatic. However, Pieter Broek holds that it was as acceptable dynastically as the Bagrationi marriage of Vasili's cousin, Vladimir Kirillovich. Since the extinction of the Korecki family in the 17th century, the Golitsyns have claimed dynastic seniority in the House of Gediminas. The Gediminids were a dynasty of monarchs of Grand Duchy of Lithuania that reigned from the 14th to the 16th century and Emperor Peter I had permitted the Golitsyns to incorporate the emblem of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania into their coat of arms.
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