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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (Russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович, romanized: Mikhail Aleksandrovich; 4 December [O.S. 22 November] 1878 – 13 June 1918) was the youngest son and fifth child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and youngest brother of Nicholas II.
Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; [d] 18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918) or Nikolai II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917.
Mikhail Alexandrovich was the third son of Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver. Mikhail grew up in Pskov, where his father had fled after the Tver Uprising of 1327. He was christened by the Archbishop of Novgorod, Vasily Kalika, in 1333. [1] Five years later, he and his mother were called to Tver when Aleksandr returned to the city.
Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (1798–1849) Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (1831–1909) Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia (1861–1929) Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov (1878–1918), arguably Tsar Mikhail II for one day after the abdication of Nicholas II; Mikhail Romanov (footballer) (1895–1961), Russian ...
Prince Michael Andreevich was born in Versailles, the second child and eldest son of Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia and Donna Elisabetta di Sasso-Ruffo (1886–1940). He was a grandson of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia and a great nephew of Nicholas II, the
The canonization of the Romanovs (also called "glorification" in the Eastern Orthodox Church) was the elevation to sainthood of the last imperial family of Russia – Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei – by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Paul I of Russia: 4. Nicholas I of Russia: 9. Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg: 2. Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia: 10. Frederick William III of Prussia: 5. Charlotte of Prussia: 11. Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz: 1. Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia: 12. Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden: 6. Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden: 13.
The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire by the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $129 million in 2023) [1].On May 15 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty that had been signed on March 30, and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18.