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  Grand Duke Nicholas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicholas was born to Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov (1831 - 1891) and Alexandra Friederike Wilhelmine von Oldenburg (1838 - 1900).
The Duke of Nassau was a son of Friedrich Wilhelm von Nassau-Weilburg, Prince of Nassau (1768 - 1816) and Luise Isabelle von Kirchberg, Countess of Sayn-Hachenburg.
Nicholas was happily married since 1907 to Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia, the daughter of King Nicholas of Montenegro.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Duke_Nicholas_Nikolayevich_of_Russia   (1725 words)

  
 RUSSIAN IMPERIAL SUCCESSION, by BRIEN HORAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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.
Grand Dukes Kirill and Wladimir (successive representatives of the first and senior of the four lines, stemming from Nicholas I's eldest son Alexander II) were supported in the early decades of exile by the leading members of the first, second and fourth lines of the dynasty.
www.chivalricorders.org /royalty/gotha/russuclw.htm   (15580 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Nicholas II of Russia
Nicholas was seen as too soft by his hard, demanding father who, not anticipating his own premature death, did nothing to prepare his son for the crown.
Nicholas fell in love with Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, but his father did not approve the match, hoping instead for a marriage with a princess of the House of Orleans, to consummate Russia's newfound alliance with the French Republic.
Nicholas assumed the throne on November 1 1894, and soon thereafter married Princess Alix (thenceforth Empress Alexandra Feodorovna).
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia   (2144 words)

  
 The Fate of the Romanovs: The Survivors
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, the Emperor's cousin and brother-in-law, had fled with his family to the Crimea and left Russia from Yalta on HMS Forsythe in December 1918 to attend the Paris Peace Conference as the representative of the Romanov family.
Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna (the elder), Duchess of Mecklenburg, the widow of the Emperor's uncle, the Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich.
Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich and his mistress and future wife (Princess Marie Krassinskia--she was Mathilde F. Kschessinska the Prima Ballerina Absoluta of the Mariensky Theater in Petrograd and had formerly been the mistress of the Emperor while he was a Grand Duke) and their son (Prince Vladimir Andreivich Krassinsky).
www.angelfire.com /pa/ImperialRussian/royalty/russia/survivor.html   (3978 words)

  
 Maurice Paléologue. An Ambassador's Memoirs. 1925. Contents.
Nicholas II gives me his views on the terms of the future peace.---The Battle of Lodz: a victory is prematurely announced by the Russians who let it slip from their grasp.---A forerunner of Rasputin; the magician Philippe; the canonization of Saint Seraphin and the birth of the Tsarevitch.
Russian churches and church music.---The Grand Duke Sergius and the munitions crisis.---A Pushkin joke; the proportion of German and Russian blood in the family of the Romanovs.---The question of the Ukraine.---The Russian armies begin their general offensive in the direction of Silesia.
Nicholas ll's notion of his autocracy.---General Gourko acquaints the conference with the strategic intentions for 1917 of the High Command; great offensives to be postponed.
www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/memoir/FrAmbRus/palTC.htm   (2019 words)

  
 Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievich Romanov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievich Romanov, the younger (Nicholas) was the owner of the Perchina Borzoi hunt in Russia.
He was the son of the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievich, the elder, grandson of Tsar Nicholas I and the cousin (called second uncles in Russia) of Tsar Nicolas II.
The Grand Duke was married to Princess Anastasia (Stana) daughter of Nicolas I, the King of Montenegro.
personal.palouse.net /valeska/grand-duke.htm   (366 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)

  
 Nikolai Romanov
Prince Roman, born in 1896, became of age in 1916, and having graduated from the 'Nicholas' Engineering Academy of Kiev, was appointed to serve on the Turkish front, at Trebizonde, in a Caucasian Sappers Regiment with the rank of Second Lieutenant.
Grand Duke Peter, born in 1865, after coming of age began to serve in the Uhlans 'Of Her Majesty the Empress' Guards Cavalry regiment until ill health forced him into temporary retirement.
Grand Duke Peter married in 1889 and died in France in 1931.
www.nikolairomanov.com /presentation   (2859 words)

  
 Photographs of Russian Tsar Nicholas II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Nicholas II reviewing the Life Guard Uhlan Regiment of His Majesty, the emperor wearing the uniform of the regiment, Peterhof, May 11, 1910, 5 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.
Nicholas II and Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich (1858-1915) talking to troops at Tsarskoe Selo, August 9, 1904.
Nicholas II and king of Saxony Friedrich-August III wearing the uniform of the Lief Guard Cuirassier regiment reviewing the guard of honour at the Tsarskoe Selo railway station on June 6, 1914.
www.romanovrussia.com /NIImilPH.html   (194 words)

  
 Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Rodzanko telegraphed Nicholas informing him of the anarchy reigning in the capital and that he government was paralysed.
Grand Duke Mijhail, who was at Gtachina with his morganatic wife, Natasha, was not prepared for such a chnage in his life.
Nicholas learnt that he was going to be taken oprissoner and he had lunch with his mother alone.
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 Nicholas, Russian grand duke. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
), 1856–1929, Russian grand duke and army officer; first cousin of Czar Alexander III and grandson of Czar Nicholas I. He served in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78.
Nicholas was made commander in chief of the Russian armies at the outbreak of World War I. In 1915 Czar Nicholas II, influenced by the czarina and Rasputin, relieved him of his post and took over the command himself.
Grand Duke Nicholas was made commander in the Caucasus, where he won successes against the Turks until the February Revolution of 1917 deprived him of his command.
www2.bartleby.com /65/ni/Nichls.html   (185 words)

  
 Rasputin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Nicholas exiled Rasputin to the provinces, but another bleeding of his son brought Rasputin back to the palace.
Fear spread that because Nicholas relied on Alexandra for advise and Alexandra relied on Rasputin, that it was actually the monk that was making the important decisions in the government.
Nicholas and Alexandra vowed to punish the assassins.
www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/rasputin.html   (486 words)

  
 PWHCE Who's Who of Russia: Grand Duke Vladimir Cyril Romanov Biography
In August 1924 Grand Duke Cyril, as the senior surviving Romanov imperial claimant, proclaimed himself Tsar Cyril I and elevated Vladimir to the rank of Tsarevich.
In contrast to other Russian émigré movements, Vladimir was able to ward off KGB infiltration attempts due to the movement's close-knit network of descendents of families that had fled Russia in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution and the Communists' victory in the Russian Civil War in 1920.
Grand Duke Vladimir was also ably assisted by his long time Chancellor Ivan Bilibin.
www.pwhce.org /rus/vladimircyrilromanov.html   (612 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Linda P. Rose on The Flight of the Romanovs. A Family Saga
The Grand Duke Kyril Vladimirovich married the ex-wife of the Tsarina Alexandra's brother.
Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovich retired as head of the imperial navy after the disastrous Russo-Japanese war in which the Russian fleet was destroyed.
One of the grand dukes, Dmitri Pavlovich was involved in the murder of Rasputin.
www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23292951939805   (1678 words)

  
 The War Amps: Canada's Military Heritage - Biography of Czar Nicholas II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1915, Nicholas took over the command of the army from Grand Duke Nicholas, leaving the czarina in virtual control at home.
This act led to a constant stream of resignations from the ministers; their posts were filled by the sycophants of Alexandra, who was completely dominated by Rasputin until his murder in 1916.
The advance, in July, 1918, of counterrevolutionary forces caused the soviet of Yekaterinburg to fear that Nicholas might be liberated; after a secret meeting a death sentence was passed on the czar and his family, who were shot along with their remaining servants in a cellar at Yekaterinburg on the night of July 16.
www.waramps.ca /military/bios/nicholas.html   (168 words)

  
 The Most Serene Grand Duchy of Nicholas: June 2004
Being that the Grand Duke of Nicholas does been known for these type of actions, his already damaged pinky toenail got chipped with a blood blister forming around the nail.
The Grand Duke took time on this day to reflect on those lives lost in the aim of protecting his visiting country and the Grand Duchy, as well as those service men and women currently doing their part on the front lines to ensure the security of this land.
The Grand Duke's grandfather came from his personal residence in far-off Long Island by his prized Thunderbird convertible, which suffered through long lines of traffic in New York and horrible thunderstorms across the Pennsylvania.
www.andrew.cmu.edu /user/nscocozz/archive/2004_06_01_   (1818 words)

  
 White Crow — www.greenwood.com
Cockfield has written the first monograph of the life of the grand duke in any language....The book well relates the life of Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich to the events of Russian history and the other members of the Romanov family.
Duke University: This is a well researched work, written with clarity and precision, which illuminates the life of one of the few Romanovs who forsook the wasteful lives of many of his family to engage in a productive career of scholarship and social justice.
Entering the military, as all Romanovs did, the Grand Duke eventually became hostile toward it and was in fact the only family member ever to formally leave military service.
www.greenwood.com /books/bookdetail.asp?sku=C7778   (523 words)

  
 Maurice Paléologue. An Ambassador's Memoirs. 1925. Vol. I, Chapter VII.
The Grand Duke Nicholas has had me informed that he is as determined as ever to pursue his advance on Silesia; but his Chief of Staff, General Janushkevitch, sees a fatal obstacle in the transport difficulty and the high wastage.
The Grand Duke Nicholas's plan is to develop his offensive by this left wing with the greatest possible intensity, even if the German thrust in the direction of Warsaw compels the right wing to dig in between the Vistula and the Warta.
The Grand Duke Nicholas has informed me with great regret that he has been obliged to discontinue his operations: the reason he gives for this decision is the excessive losses his troops have recently sustained and the fact---more serious still---that the artillery has used up all its ammunition.
www.gwpda.org /memoir/FrAmbRus/pal1-07.htm   (5381 words)

  
 Maurice Paléologue. An Ambassador's Memoirs. 1925. Vol. I, Chapter I.
While the Tsar, the Tsaritsa, the President of the Republic, the grand dukes, grand duchesses and the entire imperial staff were inspecting the cantonments of the troops, I waited for them with the ministers and civil functionaries on an eminence on which tents had been pitched.
From the camps we returned to the village of Krasnoïe-Selo, where the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaïevitch,(1) Commander of the Imperial Guard, G.O.C. the St. Petersburg military area and subsequently generalissimo of the Russian armies, gave a dinner to the President of the Republic and the sovereigns.
His father, the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaïevitch, was the third son of the Tsar Nicholas I. He was the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian armies during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878.
www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/memoir/FrAmbRus/pal1-01.htm   (5241 words)

  
 Russia Revisited - PRINCE NICHOLAS VLADIMIROVITCH GALITZINE
Prince Nicholas Vladimirovitch Galitzine was born in Tsarskoye Selo (Tsar's Village) on January 2 1914, the eldest son of Prince Vladimir Galitzine and his wife, Countess Catherine von Carlow.
His eldest mother was the eldest daughter of the morganatic marriage of Natalie Wonlarsky to Duke Georg Alexander of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a maternal grandson of Emperor Paul I of Russia.
Through his mother, Prince Nicholas was also fifth in decent from Princess Augusta of Great Britain, King George III’s sister and thus a sixth cousin once removed of the present Queen.
www.russiarevisited.com /insights/galitzine/galitzine.html   (818 words)

  
 Royal Genealogies Part 6
NOTES: Francis, Duke of Teck was a morganatic scion of the Royal House of Wurttemberg.
The Grand Duke George finally died at 27 of tuberculosis, in the summer of 1899.
The Grand Duke Cyril was an officer in the Russian Imperial Navy and died while in exile.
ftp.cac.psu.edu /~saw/royal/r06.html   (1214 words)

  
 Maurice Paléologue. An Ambassador's Memoirs. 1925. Vol. II, Chapter II.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This evening I have learned-from the most trustworthy source that the dismissal of the Grand Duke Nicholas is the result of long-continued machinations by his archenemy, General Sukhomlinov, ex-Minister for War, who has secretly saved his credit with his sovereigns, notwithstanding his scandalous failures.
The enthusiastic cheers with which the name of the Grand Duke was more than once greeted during the recent disorders in Moscow have given his enemies a very potent argument.
A personal friend of Nicholas II of twenty years' standing, his duties brought him into immediate contact with the daily private life of his sovereign; but, in his dealings with his master, he never ceased to preserve a certain independence of mind, always said exactly what he thought, and consistently opposed Rasputin.
www.ku.edu /carrie/texts/world_war_I/FrAmbRus/pal2-02.htm   (5534 words)

  
 Maurice Paléologue. An Ambassador's Memoirs. 1925. Vol. I, Chapter III.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Grand Duchess had with her her eldest son and daughter-in-law, the Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch and the Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna, her son-in-law and her daughter, Prince Nicholas of Greece and the Grand Duchess Helena Vladimirovna, and her maids of honour and some close friends.
To induce the Grand Duchess to speak her mind on a more delicate subject I congratulated her on the high courage she was showing, for I was bound to assume that her firm-mindedness was not divorced from a terrible inward wrench.
The Grand Duke Nicholas has sent to tell me from Baranovici that the concentration of his armies is proceeding at an appreciable advance on the time table, so that he proposes to extend his offensive.
www.ku.edu /carrie/texts/world_war_I/FrAmbRus/pal1-03.htm   (8709 words)

  
 The Emperor Nicholas II- As I Knew Him - The Grand Duke Nicholas
We breakfasted, lunched and dined in the dining-car at small tables, mine being that of the Grand Duke Peter, with Prince Galitzin and the French Military Attache', General Marquis de la Guiche.
All the Headquarters troops were drawn up at the entrance to the Church, Guards and Cossacks, Cossacks of the Guard and the rest, all in khaki, with long grey overcoats reaching to their feet - still as rocks - looking almost like a line of stone statues against the background of the pine forest.
When in 1915 the decision was announced that the Emperor was to take over the command 'in the field,' the Grand Duke sent for me to say good-bye on his departure for the Caucasus.
www.alexanderpalace.org /hanbury/grandduke.html   (2256 words)

  
 Nicholas on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Nicholas Investment Company, Inc. Retains OTC Financial Network to Direct a Targeted External Investor Relations Program.
Nicholas Green to be remembered by a monument featuring 100 bells donated by Italian people
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 AllRefer.com - Nicholas, Russian grand duke (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Nicholas, Russian grand duke (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Nicholas, Russian grand duke, Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biographies
Nicholas (Nikolai Nikolayevich)[nyikulI´ nyikulI´uvich] Pronunciation Key, 1856–1929, Russian grand duke and army officer; first cousin of Czar Alexander III and grandson of Czar Nicholas I. He served in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78.
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