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The wedding of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and Rebecca Virginia Bettarini took place on 1 October 2021 at Saint Isaac's Cathedral in Saint Petersburg. It was reported as the first royal wedding to take place in Russia since the Russian Revolution.
The Grand Duke, promoted from his previous rank of colonel to major-general, received command of a newly formed division: the Caucasian Native Cavalry, which became known as the "Savage Division". The appointment was perceived as a demotion because the division mostly comprised new Muslim recruits rather than the elite troops that Michael had ...
Grand Duke Michael (on the right) with his eldest brother Nicholas, Baden, 1876.. Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich was born at Peterhof Palace in St. Petersburg on 16 October [O.S. 4 October] 1861, the third child and second son of the seven children of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia and his wife, Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna (born Princess Cecile of Baden).
Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1851–1897); 1 son, 2 daughters; 1 illegitimate son. Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia: 16 October 1861: 26 April 1929: Married 1891 (26 February), Sophie of Merenberg (1868–1927); 1 son, 2 daughters. Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia: 23 August 1863: 28 January 1919
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; Marie Georgievna, Grand Duchess of Russia. A Romanov Diary: the Autobiography of the Grand Duchess Marie Georgievna of Russia. Gilbert's Books ...
The Grand Duke and Princess Victoria had a son, born in Moscow on 21 October 2022, who is named Alexander Georgievich Romanov. [34] Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, a claimant to the throne of the Imperial House of Russia, announced that her first grandchild will be called " His Serene Highness Prince Alexander Georgievich Romanov".
Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (m. 1879; d. 1897) Xenia Alexandrovna: Alexander Alexandrovich: 6 April 1875: 20 April 1960: Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (m. 1894; d. 1933) Elena Vladimirovna: Vladimir Alexandrovich: 29 January 1882: 13 March 1957: Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark (m. 1902; d. 1938) Olga ...
Ioann Konstantinovich was born as a Grand Duke of Russia with the style Imperial Highness, but at the age of 9 days, an Ukaz of his cousin Emperor Alexander III of Russia stripped him of that title, as the Ukaz amended the House Law by limiting the grand-ducal title to grandsons of a reigning emperor.