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Grand Duke George Mikhailovich with his wife and two daughters
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (Russian: Георгий Михайлович ; 23 August 1863 – 28 January 1919) was a
Grand Duke of Russia , first cousin of
Emperor Alexander III of Russia and a General in the Russian army.
Born in
Tbilisi while his father was the
Governor-General of
Russian provinces of
Transcaucasia , he was the second surviving son of
Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia and
Princess Cecilie of Baden . His paternal grandparents were
Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and
Princess Charlotte of Prussia . His maternal grandparents were
Grand Duke Leopold I of Baden and
Princess Sophie of Sweden .
On 29 January 1919, George was moved to
Peter and Paul Fortress in
Petrograd , and in the early hours of the following day he was shot there by a firing squad, along with his brother,
Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich , and his cousins Grand Dukes
Paul Alexandrovich and
Dmitri Constantinovich .
Family
On 30 April 1900 at
Corfu , Grand Duke George married
Princess Maria , daughter of
King George I of the Hellenes and
Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia . Maria was George's paternal first cousin once removed.
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and his wife Grand Duchess Maria Georgievna had two daughters:
Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia (20 June 1901 – 27 February 1974); married in 1922
Prince Paul Chavchavadze , with whom she had one son,
Prince David Chavchavadze .
Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia (22 August 1903 – 17 September 1965); married, firstly, in 1921, William Bateman Leeds, Jr., son of
Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark ; they divorced in 1930. Married, secondly, in 1946, Herman Jud. Xenia's only daughter, Nancy Leeds (1925–2006), married Edward Judson Wynkoop, Jr.
Honours and awards
The Grand Duke received several Russian and foreign decorations:
Russian
Foreign
See also
Ancestry
Ancestors of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863–1919)
Notes
^ "Königliche Orden", Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Württemberg , 1896, p.
28
^ "Ludewigs-orden", Großherzoglich Hessische Ordensliste (in German), Darmstadt: Staatsverlag, 1914, p. 5 – via hathitrust.org
^
"Schwarzer Adler-orden" , Königlich Preussische Ordensliste (in German), vol. 1, Berlin, 1886, p.
9 – via hathitrust.org {{
citation }}
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link )
^
"St. Stephans-Orden" , Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie , 1918, p.
55 , retrieved 15 November 2021
^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1896), "Großherzogliche Orden"
pp. 62 ,
77
^ Jørgen Pedersen (2009).
Riddere af Elefantordenen, 1559–2009 (in Danish). Syddansk Universitetsforlag. p. 468.
ISBN
978-87-7674-434-2 .
^ Italy. Ministero dell'interno (1920).
Calendario generale del regno d'Italia . p.
57 .
^ "Latest intelligence – Italy and Russia". The Times . No. 36823. London. 18 July 1902. p. 3.
^ Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima . Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 625.
Bibliography
Alexander, Grand Duke of Russia . Once a Grand Duke . Cassell, London, 1932, ASIN: B000J3ZFL2
Chavchavadze, David . The Grand Dukes , Atlantic, 1989,
ISBN
0-938311-11-5
Cockfield, Jamie H. White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov 1859–1919 . Praeger, 2002,
ISBN
0-275-97778-1
Marie Georgievna, Grand Duchess of Russia . A Romanov Diary: the Autobiography of the Grand Duchess Marie Georgievna of Russia . Gilbert's Books, 2012.
ISBN
978-09865310-6-4
King, Greg and Wilson, Penny. Gilded Prism: The Konstantinovichi Grand Dukes and the Last Years of the Romanov Dynasty . Eurohistory, 2006.
ISBN
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Children
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Alexandrovna
Children Grandchildren Great grandchildren Great-great grandchildren Greatx3 grandchildren
Princess Natalia Nikolaevna
Princess Elizabeth Nikolaevna
Princess Tatiana Nikolaevna
Prince Alexis Andreevich
Prince Peter Andreevich
Prince Andrew Andreevich
Prince Michael Mikhailovich
Prince Feodor Nikitich
Princess Stephena Rostislavovna
Princess Alexandra Rostislavovna
Prince Rostislav Rostislavovich
Prince Nikita Rostislavovich
Prince Nicholas Christopher
Prince Daniel Joseph
Princess Heather
Greatx4 grandchildren
Prince Cory Christopher
Princess Karlyn
Princess Chelle
Princess Madison
Prince Jackson Daniel
Children Grandchildren Great grandchildren Great-great grandchild
1st generation 2nd generation 3rd generation 4th generation 5th generation 6th generation 7th generation 8th generation 9th generation 10th generation
1 born a Grand Duke, but stripped of his title by
Alexander III 's
ukase of 1886, limiting the style to sons and male-line grandsons of a tsar
2 title of pretence granted by Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich as claimant to the Russian throne
3 title of pretence granted by Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich as claimant to the Russian throne