Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863–1919)

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 Cecily 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.

For the son of Crown Princess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia and Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia, see Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia.

Grand Duke George Mikhailovich
Born(1863-08-23)23 August 1863
Bely Klyuch, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire
Died28 January 1919(1919-01-28) (aged 55)
Petrograd, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, USSR
Spouse
Issue
HouseRomanov
FatherGrand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia
MotherPrincess Cecilie of Baden
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia in his youth
A Romanov gathering. From left to right: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, the elder, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich.
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich with his wife and two daughters
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and Princess Marie of Greece, who would become his wife. Peterhof, 1894

On 29 January 1919, Paul 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.

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.

Children

Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and his wife Grand Duchess Maria Georgievna had two daughters:

Honours and awards

The Grand Duke received several Russian and foreign decorations:

Russian
Foreign

See also

Ancestry

Notes
  1. Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1896), "Großherzogliche Orden" pp. 62, 77
  2. Jørgen Pedersen (2009). Riddere af Elefantordenen, 1559–2009 (in Danish). Syddansk Universitetsforlag. p. 468. ISBN 978-87-7674-434-2.
  3. Italy. Ministero dell'interno (1920). Calendario generale del regno d'Italia. p. 57.
  4. "Latest intelligence – Italy and Russia". The Times (36823). London. 18 July 1902. p. 3.
  5. Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 625.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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 978-0977196142
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