Among the Older children around the Romanovs
Philipp Solms was the oldest child of Fuerst Karl zu Solms, brother of Eleonore Solms, wife of Ernst Ludwig Hessen and sister in law of the Tsarina. His direct cousins were all much younger exept Elisabeth Hessen who died as a 8 year old child. Philipp had the same age than Olga Romanov and he was a little younger than Dmitri Romanov who kept him in his memories after most children were killed in 1918.

