Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia information
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Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich
Born
(1861-10-16)16 October 1861 Peterhof Palace, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died
26 April 1929(1929-04-26) (aged 67) London, England, United Kingdom
Spouse
Countess Sophie of Merenberg
(m. 1891; died 1927)
Issue
Anastasia Mikhailovna, Lady Wernher
Nadejda Mikhailovna Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven
Count Michael Mikhailovich of Torby
House
Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
Father
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia
Mother
Princess Cecilie of Baden
Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia (Russian: Михаил Михайлович; 16 October 1861 – 26 April 1929) was a son of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia and a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.
He was raised in the Caucasus, where he lived between 1862 and 1881 with his family, and was educated by private tutors. As Romanov tradition demanded, he followed a military career. He served in the Russo-Turkish War in 1877, became a Colonel and was adjutant at the Imperial court. In 1891 he contracted a morganatic marriage with Countess Sophie von Merenberg, a morganatic daughter of Prince Nicholas William of Nassau and a granddaughter of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. For contracting this marriage without permission, Emperor Alexander III of Russia stripped him of his military titles and banished the couple from the Russian Empire.
For some years he lived in Wiesbaden, Nassau and in Cannes. He settled permanently in England in 1900, leasing Keele Hall in Staffordshire and later Kenwood House on the outskirts of London. He became a prominent member of British society, one of his daughters marrying into the British aristocracy and another marrying a great-grandson of Queen Victoria. He lost his fortune with the fall of the Russian monarchy in 1918. Three of his brothers were killed by the Bolsheviks, but he escaped the Russian Revolution because he was living abroad. He spent his last years living under reduced circumstances with the financial help of his son-in-law, Sir Harold Wernher. [citation needed]
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