User:Piratesswoop/George, Count Brasov

Birth: 24 Jul/6 Aug 1910 Udinka nr. Moskva Death: 22 Jul 1931 Auxerre (Car crash)

Russian prince, born in 1910, son of Great Duke Miguel Alexandrovich (Miguel IV of Russia) and Natalia Sergeievna Cheremetevskaya, Countess Brassova. In his childhood he took the title of Count Brassov, although later Great Duke Cirilo Vladimirovich granted the one to him of Prince. He had to march to exile in 1918 and passed the rest of his life in France, where he died in an automobile accident in 1931.

The son of Grand Duke Michael [George Brasov] does, in spite of his illegitimacy, intrigue me. I don't think that we can automatically write him off as having been a potential "tsar," or at the very least an extremely important person. The reason why I feel this way- In the DIRECT MALE LINE of the Romanov family, stretching from Peter III [d.1762], and certainly in the male line streching from Alexander III, George Brassov was the last direct male line descendant [without resorting to great-uncles, first cousins, second cousins once removed, etc.] of the imperial family. George Brasov, regardless of his illegitimacy, or his father's legal violations, had something very important on his side. He was the only surviving male-to male-to male descendant of Alexander III. That is both important and profound.