Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia

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Marriage and issue

On 16 August 1857, he married Princess Cecilie of Baden (1839–1891), daughter of Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden and Sophie of Sweden. Cecily adopted the name Olga Feodorovna, and had the following children with him:

  Name Birth Death Spouse (dates of birth & death) and children[1][2]
File:Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia (1859-1919), young.jpg Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia
184026 April
1859		 191928 January
1919		 Unmarried. He was killed by the Bolsheviks during the Russian revolution;
no issue
File:Gran Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia 01.jpg Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia 186028 July
1860		 192211 March
1922		 Married 1879 (24 January),
Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1851–1897);
1 son, 2 daughters; 1 illegitimate son.
File:Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia.jpg Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia 186116 October
1861		 192926 April
1929		 Married 1891 (26 February),
Sophie of Merenberg (1868–1927);
1 son, 2 daughters.
File:Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia.JPG Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia 186323 August
1863		 191928 January
1919		 Married 1900 (12 May),
Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark (1876–1940);
2 daughters.

He was killed by the Bolsheviks during the Russian revolution.

File:Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (LOC).jpg Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia 186613 April
1866		 193326 February
1933		 Married 1894 (6 August),
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875–1960);
1 daughter, 6 sons.
File:Grand Duke Sergei Mikailovich 0.JPG Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia 18697 October
1869		 191818 July
1918		 Unmarried. He was killed by the Bolsheviks during the Russian revolution;
no issue
File:Alexis Mikhailovich.jpg Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia 187528 December
1875		 18952 March
1895		 Unmarried;
no issue

Career

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Michael Nicolaevich as a young man

He served 20 years (1862–1882) as the Governor General of Caucasia, being seated in Tbilisi, the town which most of his children remembered as the home of their childhood. In the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), he was nominal Commander-in-Chief of the Russian troops in the Caucasus and was appointed Field Marshal General in April 1878.

In the course of his life, four members of his family ruled as Emperors of Russia: his father, Nicholas I; his brother, Alexander II; his nephew, Alexander III; as well as his grand-nephew, Nicholas II, whose second daughter, Grand Duchess Tatiana, the Grand Duke was godfather to.

He died in Cannes, France, on 18 December 1909. He was the last surviving legitimate grandchild of Paul I of Russia.

Legacy

He was remembered by Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, granddaughter of his eldest brother, in her memoirs: "My great-uncle, Grand Duke Michael came from time to time to pay us visits. He was an old gentleman of great height and unforgettable elegance; he fascinated us by the perfection and harmony of his gestures, by his affability and his air of a grand seigneur of an epoch already vanished. He was the last of the Grand Dukes who, according to the custom of my grandfather's time, tutoi-ed the men, and in spite of his age he bowed with touching grace before the women as he kissed their hands."[3]

Honours

National orders and decorations[4]
Foreign orders and decorations[4]

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Ancestors

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References

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  1. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack (1900) Facsimile Reprint 1998, London: Stationery Office, Template:ISBN, p. 86
  2. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1993, Concise Edition, (Template:ISBN), pages 134–136
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  5. ↑ Liste der Ritter des Königlich Preußischen Hohen Ordens vom Schwarzen Adler (1851), "Von Seiner Majestät dem Könige Friedrich Wilhelm IV. ernannte Ritter" p. 20
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  9. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Hessen (1879), "Großherzogliche Orden und Ehrenzeichen" p. 10
  10. ↑ Staatshandbuch für das Großherzogtum Sachsen / Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1855), "Großherzogliche Hausorden" p. 11 Template:Webarchive
  11. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1868), "Großherzogliche Orden" pp. 50, 54, 60
  12. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Bayern (1908), "Königliche Orden" p. 8
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