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  Alexander III of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Descendants of Alexander II and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine
Alexander deprecated what he considered undue foreign influence in general, and German influence in particular, so the adoption of genuine national principles was off in all spheres of official activity, with a view to realizing his ideal of a homogeneous Russia—homogeneous in language, administration and religion.
Alexander III was succeeded by his eldest son Nicholas II of Russia.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Alexander I of Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Aleksander Pavlovich Romanov or Tsar Alexander I (The Blessed), (Russian: Александр I Павлович) (December 23, 1777–December 1, 1825), Emperor of Russia (reigned March 23, 1801–December 1, 1825), King of Poland (reigned 1815–1825), son of the Grand Duke Paul Petrovich, afterwards Paul I, and Maria Fedorovna, daughter of the Duke of Württemberg.
For Russia was not ripe for liberty; and Alexander, the disciple of the revolutionist Laharpe, was—as he himself said—but "a happy accident" on the throne of the tsars.
Alexander, in fact, who, without being consciously tyrannical, possessed in full measure the tyrant's characteristic distrust of men of ability and independent judgment, lacked also the first requisite for a reforming sovereign: confidence in his people; and it was this want that vitiated such reforms as were actually realized.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Alexander_I_of_Russia   (3811 words)

  
 Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov, (In Russian Великий Князь Александр Александрович Романов), was the infant son of Alexander III and Empress Marie of Russia.
After his elder brother, the Grand Duke Nicholas, the infant Grand Duke was third in succession to the imperial throne.
Unlike his father and grandfather, Nicholas II could not count on support from his brothers during his reign; Alexander dead, their younger brother George suffered from tuberculosis for most of the 1890s and finally dying in 1899; and Michael, who spent most of Nicholas' latter reign in exile.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Duke_Alexander_Alexandrovich_of_Russia   (276 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Nicholas I of Russia
Grand Duchess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar (1811–1890) was the queen consort of Wilhelm I of Germany.
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievich (July 27, 1831 - April 13, 1891) was the third son and sixth child of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia.
Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start...
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 From Russia with Love -- GRAND Duke Alexander warns Americans about the Rockefeller Empire!!
Grand Duke Alexander was commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force during WW I. Grand Duke Alexander during his exile in New York in 1932.
Grand Duke Alexander was the nephew of Emperor Alexander II.
Empress Marie was the widow of Emperor Alexander III and mother-in-law of Duke Alexander.
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Grand Duke Alexander was born on April 1, 1866 in Tiflis (now Tbilisi), and died in 1934 in the United States.
Alexander's father, the Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevitch (1832-1909) was then the general in charge of the Russian artillery and military to his bones.
Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War resulted in a loss of all (with a few exceptions) capital warships deployed in the area and a need to reconsider Russian naval policy and to draw lessons.
www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/bio/a/alex-mk.html   (1174 words)

  
 The Grand Dukes of Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Grand Duke Constantine remarried (morganatically) at Warsaw 24 May 1820, to Joanna, created Princess Lowicka with the qualification of Serene Highness by Emperor Alexander I 1820 (born at Warsaw 29 September 1799; died at Tsarskoe Selo 29 November 1831), daughter of Count Antoni Grudna Grudzinscy, by his first wife Marianna Dorpowska.
Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich died in London 26 April 1929 and is buried at Hampstead Cemetary.
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich was murdered by the Bolsheviks at Perm sometime between 18 and 28 July 1918.
www.angelfire.com /pa/ImperialRussian/royalty/russia/dukes.html   (1116 words)

  
 Alexander Palace Time Machine - Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia, was born in 1891, the only son of Princess Alexandra of Greece and Grand Duke Paul (or Pavl) Alexandrovich.
He was afforded the material splendor of a Russian Grand Duke and the emotional poverty of a motherless child.
Dmitri's father, the kindly Grand Duke Paul, was often absent during his son's childhood, due to the afore mentioned matrimonial difficulties.
www.alexanderpalace.org /palace/Dmitri.html   (2141 words)

  
 Alexander I of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
He was born in Saint Petersburg to Grand Duke Paul Petrovich, afterwards Paul I, and Maria Fedorovna, daughter of the Duke of Württemberg.
Alexander succeeded to the throne after his father was murdered, and ruled Russia during the chaotic period of the Napoleonic Wars.
Within weeks of Alexander's death, there was an unsuccessful attempt by liberal-minded military officers to seize power from the crown, now known as the Decembrist Revolt.
www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Alexander_I_of_Russia   (3360 words)

  
 23RD GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Grand Duchess Xenia of RUSSIA was born in Russia - dtr of Tsar Alexander III.
She was married to Grand Duke Alexander MIKHAILOVICH in 1894 in Russia.
Grand Duke Alexander MIKHAILOVICH was born in 1866 in Russia - son of Michael.
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 New York City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The four largest countries of origin are the Dominican Republic, China, Jamaica, and Russia.
Grand Central Terminal, one of the two busiest train stations in the country
The New York City Subway is the largest subway system in the world when measured by track mileage (656 miles or 1,056 km of mainline track) and the world's fifth largest when measured by annual ridership (1.4 billion passenger trips in 2004).
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 Grand Duke ... of Russia - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
On February 28 the last of the troops loyal to the tsar surrendered, revolutionary soldiers arrested the tsar’s ministers, and the tsar abdicated on...
Vladimir, Saint (circa 956-1015), grand duke of Kyiv, whose baptism made Orthodox Christianity the official religion of Kievan Rus.
In March 1998 Luxembourg’s monarch, Grand Duke Jean, conferred broad constitutional powers on his son and heir, Prince Henri, in preparation for...
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 Historic Royal Palaces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Dukes of Gloucester, Kent and Clarence (later King William IV in 1830) were all allocated residences in and around the Estate at different times in the nineteenth century.
The Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandra (1875-1960) was the sister of the assassinated Tsar Nicholas II and widow of Alexander Michael, Grand Duke of Russia.
Grand Duchess Xenia (1875-1960) was the daughter of Alexander III, Emperor of Russia; sister of the assassinated Tsar Nicholas II, and widow of Alexander Michael, Grand Duke of Russia.
www.hrp.org.uk /webcode/content.asp?ID=1102   (1861 words)

  
 Elena Govor. Alexander Massov. The "Rynda" corvette and Grand the Duke Alexander Mikhailovich Romanov in ...
Apart from it, the Great Duke was interested in photography and due to it an album with photographs, including the Australian ones, was compiled during the navigation of “Rynda”.
Local genealogists derived the Romanovs’ ancestry to a certain Lithuanian Prince, and discovered that the Grand Duke was a son of Charles I of Wurtemberg.
Yet the presence of the Great Duke at the celebration appeared to be impossible as, according to the legislation of the Russian Empire, visitors could not participate in state’s ceremonies of a foreign state.
argo.net.au /andre/ryndaENFIN.htm   (3203 words)

  
 History & Biography
Pedigree of the Somersets, Earls of Worcester & Dukes of Beaufort.
The wife of George Louis, Duke of Brunswick Luneburg, who succeeded to the English throne as George I at the age of 54.
Tihon Nicolaievich Kulikovsky Romanoff was the son of Nikolaj Kulikovsky & Grand Duchess Olga.
www.heraldrytoday.co.uk /history_and_biography.htm   (3458 words)

  
 Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
She is married to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and is the mother of the heir-apparent to the British throne, Charles, Prince of Wales.
Her father was HRH The Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI), the second eldest son of King George V and Queen Mary.
She is cousin of Albert II of Belgium, Harald V of Norway, Juan Carlos I of Spain and Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, as well as former kings Constantine II of Greece and Michael of Romania, and to the former Royal houses of Prussia/Germany and Russia.
elizabeth-ii-of-the-united-kingdom.iqnaut.net   (4345 words)

  
 The Grand Duke Alexis From Russia
when Alexander II was Czar of Russia and when thousands of Buffalo wintered in the Republican Valley, the Czar's fourth son, the Grand Duke Alexis, General Phil Sheridan, Buffalo Bill Cody, General George Armstrong Custer, and Chief Spotted Tail gathered on the Red Willow in Hayes County for the last great buffalo hunt.
The Grand Duke rode Buffalo Bill's celebrated buffalo horse "Buckskin Joe", which had been trained to ride at full gallop with a target so that the best shot could be made.
The Duke celebrated his success, taking off his cap and waving it vehemently; shouting to those who were fully a mile in the rear.
www.buffalocommons.org /docs/smenu1/dukealexis.html   (681 words)

  
 I6499: Dmitri Pavlovich Of Russia (Grand Duke) (6 SEP 1891 - 1941)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
I6499: Dmitri Pavlovich Of Russia (Grand Duke) (6 SEP 1891 - 1941)
Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia, was born in
Descendants of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Of Russia and Audrey Emery
web.ukonline.co.uk /Members/nigel.battysmith/Database/D0012/I6499.html   (1450 words)

  
 I6490: Paul Alexandrovich Of Russia (Grand Duke) (29 SEP 1860 - 30 JAN 1919)
Descendants of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich Of Russia and Princess Alexandra Of Greece
2 Dmitri Pavlovich Of Russia = Audrey Emery
Descendants of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich Of Russia and Olga Von Pistolkors
web.ukonline.co.uk /nigel.battysmith/Database/D0003/I6490.html   (132 words)

  
 Netsurfer Books 06.05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
There is a photograph of the Grand Duke in the frontispiece that speaks the first thousand words of this memoir.
Alexander was born in 1866 and was there with Nicky at the deathbed of Nicky's father the murdered Czar Nicolas I, and he coolly observed that nine of those present were to be shot by the Bolsheviks 37 years later.
An unrepentant monarchist, the Grand Duke Alexander was not a dunderhead reactionary.
www.netsurf.com /nsb/sub/v06/nsb.06.05.html   (6737 words)

  
 European Royal History: Our Bookstore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Russia's rudderless drift towards revolution and the collapse of the Romanov dynasty.
The voyage to exile of the Romanovs in the Crimea onboard the HMS Marlborough.
Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, Grand Duchess of Russia, Victoria Melita ca a scandal by divorcing one first cousin to marry another.
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 Russia
As with many royal families which have not reigned for a considerable period of time, disputes have arisen as to who should be considered the head of the family and heir to the right to be claimant to the throne.
The next member of the family in terms of primogeniture was Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich.
Friedrich Ludwig, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Ludwigslust 13 Jun 1778-Ludwigslust 29 Nov 1819)
pages.prodigy.net /ptheroff/gotha/russia.html   (3102 words)

  
 The genealogical tree of Xenia Romanov, Grand Duchess of Russia (   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The genealogical tree of Xenia Romanov, Grand Duchess of Russia (
Nicholas II Romanov, Emperor of all the Russias
Married 12 Jun 1918, Yalta, to Alexander Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia
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 Grand Masters of the King Peter II "Orders" of St. John of Jerusalem.
#4 This 'Grand Duke' is not to be confused with Dmitri Romanoff of Copenhagen.
#2 "Prince" Henri is counted as the 74th Grand Master (Paul I is claimed as the 70th, Grand Duke Alexander as the 71st, "Prince" Crolian Edelen "de Burg" as the 72nd, Don Roberto II Paternò Castello di Carcaci Ayerbe-Aragona Duke of Perpignan, head of the Royal House of Aragon, as the 73rd.
Furthermore, King Peter was only elected Grand Master on the 30th January 1965, by a group of American Knights, followed by being elected Grand Master by European groups in March of that year.
www2.prestel.co.uk /church/kposj/kpgml.htm   (2997 words)

  
 Royalty Digest
Alexander, Grand Duke, of Russia: ONCE A GRAND DUKE.
Alexander, Grand Duke, of Russia: ALWAYS A GRAND DUKE.
Myers, Jesse: BARON WARD AND THE DUKES OF PARMA.
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 Meadowlark Gallery: The Artist Biographies
He traveled to Norway, Switzerland, Italy, and the Pyrenees for the mountain landscapes, he favored in his early paintings.
His patrons included Queen Victoria and the Grand Duke Alexander of Russia.
He listed his address as Dusseldorf from 1863 to 1866 and 1869, and Berlin from 1867 to 1868.
www.meadowlarkgallery.com /HerzogHerman.htm   (177 words)

  
 Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR: "Alexander Grand Duke of Russia." This copy: owner's name stamped at pastedown, else no writing to endpapers or text.
This copy: name at fly, else no writing to endpapers or text, near fine in lightly worn dj, tight binding and hinges.
Illus by Alexander Dobkin; intro by May Lamberton Becker.
www.secondhandprose.com /bio.htm   (1494 words)

  
 How to be a Furniture Detective & Common Sense Antiques
His “Portrait of a Matron in a Tignon” reflects his early desire to bring the style of the European grand masters to portraiture in America.
Only master and grand master engravers were allowed to work on the set and each rifle has at least two signatures and some have several more, all in highly visible locations.
His patrons included Queen Victoria and the Grand Duke Alexander of Russia, as well as a growing band of admirers in the United States.
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 First Names A-C
Alexander George of Teck, Earl of Athlone (b.
Alfonso Maria of Spain, Duke of Galliera (b.
Arthur William Patrick, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (b.
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 Yacht serenity history, elco boats and charles lindbergh.
However, it wasn't until after that war that the company really hit its stride building unique, high quality electric and gas launches.
Thomas Edison, J. Morgan, John Jacob Astor, the Grand Duke Alexander of Russia and hundreds of other notables had to have one.
In 1928, a year after he flew solo across the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh spent a summer getting acquainted with a 38 foot Elco cabin cruiser that he chartered to get away from the roaring crowds.
www.yachtserenity.com /elco.html   (455 words)

  
 Alexander, His Imperial Highness, the Grand Duke of Russia, Out Of My Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Alexander, His Imperial Highness, the Grand Duke of Russia, Out Of My Life
Alexander, His Imperial Highness, the Grand Duke of Russia
How To Obtain a Speech: If you would like to obtain a copy of any of the speeches from the printed book, please make your request to the Club at The Empire Club of Canada, Fairmont Royal York Hotel, 100 Front Street West, Level "H", Toronto, Ontario, M5J 1E3.
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