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	THIRD GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia was born in 1875.
		HIH Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia was born in 1878.
		Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia was born in 1882.
	www.royalgenealogy.com /d92.htm (135 words)

	Encyclopedia: Alexander III of Russia
		Marie of Hesse Princess Maximilienne Wilhelmine Marie of Hesse and the Rhine (8 August 1824-8 June 1880) was a princess of Grand Ducal Hesse and, as Marie Alexandrovna, Empress consort of Alexander II of Russia.
		Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna Romanova (In Russian Ð’ÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ°Ñ ÐšÐ½ÑÐ³Ð¸Ð½Ð° ÐšÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÐÐ»ÐµÐºÑÐ°Ð½Ð´Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ð°) (was born on 6 April 1875 in St Petersburg and died 20 April 1960 at Wilderness House in Hampton Court, England) She was the daughter of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and Dagmar of Denmark and sister of the last crowned Tsar Nicholas...
		Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (Olga Alexandrovna Romanova, Ольга Александровна Романова) (June 13, 1882 - November 24, 1960) was a Grand Duchess of Russia and the younger sister of Russian Tsar Nikolai II.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alexander-III-of-Russia (3784 words)

	RUSSIAN IMPERIAL SUCCESSION, by BRIEN HORAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich was attacked for his role in persuading Nicholas II to abdicate, thus precipitating the fall of the dynasty.
		In 1889, Grand Duke Peter Nikolayevich of Russia married Princess Militza of Montenegro,[65] a daughter of an Orthodox sovereign, Prince Nicholas I of Montenegro.
		The 1924 accession manifesto specified Grand Duke Kirill as Emperor and Grand Duke Wladimir as Grand Duke-Tsesarevich.
	www.chivalricorders.org /royalty/gotha/russuclw.htm (15580 words)

	RussianImperialSuccession
		As discussed in Footnote 3, Grand Duke Kirill, who was third in line to the Russian throne at the time of the March 1917 abdication of Nicholas II, succeeded as head of the dynasty in July 1918 upon the execution of Nicholas II and the latter's son and brother.
		Grand Duke Kirill (and to a much lesser extent, his uncle, Grand Duke Paul, only surviving son of the Tsar-Liberator, Alexander II) were criticized for their dealings with the Provisional Government in the days prior to the abdication of Nicholas II.
		Grand Duke Wladimir was head of the house for more than 53 years, from 1938 to 1992, the longest tenure in the history of the dynasty.
	www.riuo.org /RussianImperialSuccession/russianimperialsuccession.html (14164 words)

	The Grand Dukes of Russia
		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)

	BabyBee
		The third daughter of the Duke of Edimburgh was born on September 1, 1878 ans she was named Alexandra, known in the family as Sandra.
		She was the perfect bride for Michael, since being heir to the Russian throne (Nicholas' only son Alexis hadn't been born), he needed a bride that belonged to Royalty.
		Michael, as heir to the throne, had to obey the law so he wrote a letter to Beatrice, ending their relation.
	www.geocities.com /jesusib/BabyBee.html (999 words)

	RUSSIA
		Grand Dukes of Moscow and Emperors of Russia
		The Varangians/Russes got to Russia through their technology, the sailing ships that could actually take them to Greenland; but they came to rule the area through forms of large scale political organization that may have been rudimentary compared to Francia and Romania, but were beyond anything seen previously east of Moravia.
		Russia would then always be hindered by autocratic government that alternatively smothered dissent and innovation and then, alarmed at the backwardness of the country, attempted to impose top-down reforms and development -- which then would be resisted by a national conservatism that the government in its phase of being threatened by change would have loved.
	www.friesian.com /russia.htm (8586 words)

	Guardian \| Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
		The widow of one royal duke, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of King George V and Queen Mary, and the mother of another, she concealed, beneath her quiet public image, a zest for adventure and a steel-like fortitude.
		Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott, third daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch and ninth Duke of Queensberry, was born at Montagu House, the family's London mansion in Whitehall.
		She watched fascinated as Countess Brassova, the morganatic wife of the Grand Duke Michael of Russia, fitted the cigarette into a long holder, and then, to the amazement of all, called for a servant to light it.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5052129-103684,00.html (1180 words)

	Patricia
		Princess Patricia, the Duke of Connaught's third child, was born on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1886; she was Queen Victoria's 20th granddaughter, agianst her wishes because she wanted the baby to had been her 12th grandson.
		Patsy never knew the origin of this rumour; it was an indiscretion of Patsy's aunt, Queen Alexandra of England and her sister the Dowager Empress Marie of Russia (Grand Duke Michael's mother), who wanted to marry the Grand Duke with a suitable princess and they had tought of Patsy.
		It is said that the Duke of Connaught didn't eant her daughter to marry and after the Duchess death in 1917, he accepted because a promise he made to his wife on her deathbed.
	www.geocities.com /jesusib/Patricia.html (866 words)

	BRAILA - LoveToKnow Article on BRAILA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The principal church, among many, is the cathedral of St Michael, a large, ungainly building of grey sandstone.
		At the peace of Adrianople (1829) the place was definitely assigned to Walachia; but before giving it up, the grand-duke Michael of Russia razed the citadel, and in this ruinous condition it was handed over to the Walachians.
		Braila was the spot chosen by the Russian general Gorchakov for crossing the Danube with his division in 1854.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BRAILA.htm (637 words)

	Grand Dukes and Diamonds
		Their marriage in 1917 had been a sensation: she was the daughter of Grand Duke Michael of Russia and a direct descendant of Push kin; he was probably the wealthiest bachelor in England.
		Based on unrestricted access to the Wernher papers, Grand Dukes and Diamonds charts the history of one of the most influential and extraordinary families of our time.
		Russian Grand Dukes, Marcel Proust and exotic figures such as Calouste Gulbenkian had been at the Paris opening [of the Ritz in Paris], and so had Jules Porgès, who with Wernher, Beit had been part of the syndicate that had put up the money for César Ritz to launch his international chain of hotels.
	www.porges.net /GrandDukesDiamonds/GrandDukesIndex.html (1622 words)

	[No title]
		This grand composition, replete with dignity and devotional feeling, musically and poetically the finest yet composed in the celebration of the Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen, who has most graciously accepted a copy, will be performed at the Royal Albert-hall to-morrow, at 8.
		The Crown Princess of Germany, accompanied by the Princesses Victoria, Sophie, and Margaret of Prussia, the Infante Antonio d'Orleans and the Infanta Eulalie of Spain, and the Grand Duke Michael of Russia visited the Prince and Princess of Wales to-day, and remained to luncheon.
		The children sang "God Bless the Prince of Wales," after which the Duke of Cambridge, specially addressing them, said this should be a red letter day in their history, and that they should feel flattered in having had the honour of receiving notice from so august a lady as the Princess.
	members.tripod.com /diz_7/manuals/manuals-txt/sherlock.txt (15101 words)

	Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The definite biography of Grand Duke Michael of Russia, the brother of Tsar Nicholas II, and of his morganatic wife, "Nathalie Brasova".
		KEJSERINDE DAGMAR - MARIA FEODORVNA - EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
		This is an incredibly beautiful book on the life and times of the Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, the mother of the last Tsar, Nicholas II.
	web.telia.com /~u51500203/russia.htm (126 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - CHAPTER XXIII THE WILD WEST IN ENGLAND
		The impression created by the grand Victoria station, by the underground railroad, the strange sights and busy scenes of the "West End," the hustle and the bustle of a first evening view of mighty London, would alone make a chapter.
		The entertainment to the future King of Great Britain and Emperor of India, with his royal party, was, of course, to be an exclusive one and I got the royal box rigged as handsomely as circumstances would permit and the taste of chosen artists could devise.
		They were followed by the Marquis of Lorne and Princess Louise, his wife, the Duke of Cambridge, H. Teck and son, the Comptesse de Paris, the Crown Prince of Denmark, with numerous lords and ladies in waiting.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/resources/archives/seven/w67bbauto/w67bb23.htm (7037 words)

	[No title]
		I left the England of William the Fourth, of the Duke of Wellington, of Sir Robert Peel; the France of Louis Philippe, of Marshal Soult, of Thiers, of Guizot.
		On the grand stand I found myself in the midst of the great people, who were all very natural, and as much at their ease as the rest of the world.
		In the afternoon we went to a tea at a very grand house, where, as my companion says in her diary, "it took full six men in red satin knee-breeches to let us in." Another grand personage asked us to dine with her at her country place, but we were too full of engagements.
	public.planetmirror.com /pub/pg/etext05/7hund10.txt (21630 words)

	Sacha, Duchess of Abercorn. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Sacha's Russian associations stem from her paternal grandmother Countess Anastasia Torby, the daughter of Grand Duke Michael of Russia and the great-granddaughter of Alexander Pushkin.
		Grand Duke Michael bore the name 'Romanov,' the house name of the Russian Imperial Family.
		Hamilton, then a Marquis now the Duke of Abercorn, was a member of Parliament for the Ulster Unionist Party.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/leicestershire/42698 (431 words)

	Westminister, Elizabeth Mary: Diary of a Tour in... Russia in 1
		We also saw the Grand Duke's private apartments, in which are several good pictures and drawings of soldiers, horses, also his armoury, which is very fine and varied, and contains besides the ancient armour, specimens of all the modern uniforms of different countries.
		She of course went first and alone, as the Grand Duke Michael, who was to have come, had not arrived; after her went all the ladies separately, and then all the gentlemen.
		I went with the Disbrowes en grande parure; the church was full of Cossacks and soldiers ranged in order; all the officers and generals, in the centre, all the diplomats on one side of the altar, and on the other the Emperor with the young Grand Dukes Alexander and Michael, but not the Empress.
	erc.lib.umn.edu /dynaweb/readers/westdiar/@Generic__BookTextView/104 (17937 words)

	Annie Oakley, Little Sure Shot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		She was challenged to a shooting contest by the Grand Duke Michael of Russia.
		He thought htis would be too embarrassing for the Duke to beat by both a woman and a "commoner." He was right.
		She won, and the Duke lost face in front of his prospective bride.
	members.aol.com /Gibson0817/AnnieOakley.htm (859 words)

	Royal News 2002, Section III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Michael James Douglas Campbell (b.1970, son of Peter Colin Drummond Campbell and of his wife, Lady Moyra Hamilton (daughter of James Edward Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn, and of his wife, Lady Mary Crichton)) married Hon.
		Angela Margaret Manners (herself the daughter of the 3rd Lord Manners, of the house of the Dukes of Rutland)] died in Devon on 18 December.
		Duke Don Giovanni was a member of a secondary line of the Princely and Ducal House De'Giovanni Greuther.
	pages.prodigy.net /ptheroff/2002_3.html (10866 words)

	cannes, patrimony, cemetery, grand jas
		Serge, the eldest boy, was Chamberlain of the Imperial Court of Russia.
		The prince, a Colonel in the Imperial Guard of Russia, and his wife were among the first residents in the Russian colony.
		The church was consecrated on 4 December 1894 in the presence of Tsar Alexander III’s nephew, Grand Duke Michael of Russia.
	www.cannes-on-line.com /Anglais/gdarisuk.html (1231 words)

	Keele (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This Elizabethan manor house in Staffordshire, England, was built in 1580 and restored by Ralph Sneyd to the designs of Anthony Salvin in 1960.
		Grand Duke Michael of Russia lived here in the early 1900’s.
		In addition, meet the vicar of St. John the Baptist Church, Keele, village church of the estate, and see the thriving University of Keele, which purchased the Sneyd buildings and land in 1949.
	www.alphavideo.net /keele.html (181 words)

	Duchess of Devonshire Ball
		The Grand Duke Michael of Russia in a Henry IV.
		A gold crown incrusted with emeralds, diamonds, and rubies, with a diamond drop at each curved end and two upstandinh white ostrich feathers in the middle, and round the front festoons of pearls with a large pearshaped pearl in the centre falling on the forehead.
		The Duke of Portland as Duc di Savoia.
	www.zip.com.au /~lnbdds/home/rah/dodbcostumes.htm (2129 words)

	NELSON'S HARDY AND HIS WIFE: Old Admirals and Young Wives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Richard Grenville, Marquess and (after 1822) first Duke of Buckingham, was born in I776 and was thirty-eight years of age in 1814.
		The Grand Duke Michael of Russia came to stay two days at Mt. Edgecumbe and we were asked to meet him.
		The Grand Duke was not agreeable and certainly hardly civil to his host.
	www.kategallison.com /hardy/IV.HTM (3778 words)

	The Jolivet Family and the Lusitania
		Michael and Lawrence were soon in touch by phone.
		His other reason, which she may not have been aware of, was that he was negotiating a contract to sell Grand Duke Michael of Russia, brother to the Tsar, Westinghouse rifles.
		His wife, Inez Jolivet, was acquainted with the Russian Royal family as she had been decorated by the Tsar of Russia and King Edward during her career as a concert violinist.
	www.revdma2.com /Jolivets2.htm (7674 words)

	Quartermaster Sergeant James Mc Kay, Royal Sappers and Miners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		On 22 September 1824 the Duke of Wellington approved of Colby's scheme, and Colby was given a free hand to select officers and men.
		On 1 December 1824 the Duke of Wellington, then Master General of Ordnance, obtained the official Royal Warrant for the formation of the company.
		The following day the Grand Duke, accompanied by Lord Bloomfield, visited the sappers' barracks, walked through the rooms, examined the weapons of the corps and expressed general pleasure with their appearance.
	members.aol.com /reubique/mckay.htm (4760 words)

	A short history of Keele University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The grounds and gardens were magnificently laid out around it, and many interesting features survive today, such as the remarkable holly hedge, originally 199 yards long, 28 feet thick and 35 feet high.
		At the beginning of the twentieth century, the hall was let to the Grand Duke Michael of Russia, who entertained King Edward VII there.
		Later, however, it remained empty, and troops were stationed on the estate during the second world war.
	www.keele.ac.uk /university/khist.htm (442 words)

	Telegraph \| News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Announcing the change, Tim Phillips, chairman of the All England Club, said of the Duke: "He feels the tradition of bowing and curtseying is pretty much on the way out, and he thinks it is time to stop it.
		Along with the Prince and Princess of Wales, later King George V and Queen Mary, the Grand Duchess Anastasie and Grand Duke Michael of Russia came to watch.
		The late Diana, Princess of Wales was a regular spectator, as is Princess Michael of Kent and the Duchess of York.
	www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/30/nbow30.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/30/ixhome.html (666 words)

	Presidents of African Descent
		His brother, James (same mother, same father) also migrated to the United States where he was treated as a Negro because of his dark color and hair.
		DAVID MICHAEL - Marquis of Milford Haven, cousin to the Queen of England and a direct descendant of Queen Victoria.
		His mother was the daughter of the Grand Duke Michael of Russia.
	www.nuconceptsinc.com /presiden.htm (805 words)

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