Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia (Russian: Великий князь Никола́й Миха́йлович; 26 April [O.S. 14 April] 1859 – 28 January 1919) was the eldest son of Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia and a first cousin of Alexander III.
| Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich | |
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| Born | 26 April 1859 Tsarskoye Selo, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 28 January 1919 (aged 59) Petrograd, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic |
| House | Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov |
| Father | Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia |
| Mother | Princess Cecilie of Baden |
Honours and awardsEdit
Baden: Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1876[1]
Württemberg: Grand Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown, 1876[2]
Kingdom of Prussia: Pour le Mérite (military), 19 November 1878[3]
Grand Duchy of Hesse: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order, 10 March 1886[4]
France: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, December 1894[5]
Denmark: Knight of the Order of the Elephant, 18 November 1897[6]
Sweden: Knight of the Order of the Seraphim, 12 May 1908[7]
AncestryEdit
BibliographyEdit
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- Alexander, Grand Duke of Russia, Once a Grand Duke, Cassell, London, 1932.
- 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
- George, Grand Duchess of Russia, A Romanov Diary, Atlantic International Publications, 1988. ISBN 0-938311-09-3
- Hall, Coryne, Little mother of Russia, Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc, 2001. ISBN 0-8419-1421-4
- King, Greg, Wilson, Penny, Gilded Prism, Eurohistory, 2006, ISBN 0-9771961-4-3
- Troyat, Henri, Tolstoy ,Doubleday, 1967. ISBN 0-8021-3768-7
- Zeepvat, Charlotte, The Camera and the Tsars, Sutton Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3049-7.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1896), "Großherzogliche Orden" p. 62
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Württemberg (1896), "Königliche Orden" p. 28
- ^ Lehmann, Gustaf (1913). Die Ritter des Ordens pour le mérite 1812–1913 [The Knights of the Order of the Pour le Mérite] (in German). Vol. 2. Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Sohn. p. 557.
- ^ "Ludewigs-orden", Großherzoglich Hessische Ordensliste (in German), Darmstadt: Staatsverlag, 1914, p. 5 – via hathitrust.org
- ^ M. & B. Wattel. (2009). Les Grand'Croix de la Légion d'honneur de 1805 à nos jours. Titulaires français et étrangers. Paris: Archives & Culture. p. 517. ISBN 978-2-35077-135-9.
- ^ Jørgen Pedersen (2009). Riddere af Elefantordenen, 1559–2009 (in Danish). Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag. p. 468. ISBN 978-87-7674-434-2.
- ^ Svensk rikskalender (in Swedish), 1909, p. 613, retrieved 6 January 2018 – via runeberg.org
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