Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia

Grand Duke of Russia

Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich
Grand Duke of Russia
Photograph, 1880s
Born	(1859-04-26)26 April 1859 Tsarskoye Selo, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	28 January 1919(1919-01-28) (aged 59) Petrograd, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
House	Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
Father	Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia
Mother	Princess Cecilie of Baden

Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia (Russian: Великий князь Никола́й Миха́йлович; 26 April [O.S. 14 April] 1859 – 28 January 1919) was the eldest son of Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia and a first cousin of Alexander III.

On 29 January 1919, Nicholas was moved to Peter and Paul Fortress in Petrograd, and in the early hours of the following day he was shot there by a firing squad, along with his brother, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich, and his cousins Grand Dukes Paul Alexandrovich and Dmitri Constantinovich.

According to historians Edvard Radzinsky, their executions had been ordered by Vladimir Lenin as retaliation for the recent summary executions of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin, by Freikorps forces loyal to the Weimar Republic.^[1]

Honours and awards

Baden: Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1876^[2]
Württemberg: Grand Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown, 1876^[3]
Kingdom of Prussia: Pour le Mérite (military), 19 November 1878^[4]
Grand Duchy of Hesse: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order, 10 March 1886^[5]
France: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, December 1894^[6]
Denmark: Knight of the Order of the Elephant, 18 November 1897^[7]
Austria-Hungary: Decoration of Honour for Arts and Sciences, 1908^[8]
Sweden: Knight of the Order of the Seraphim, 12 May 1908^[9]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia

16. Peter III of Russia

8. Paul I of Russia

17. Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst

4. Nicholas I of Russia

18. Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg

9. Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg

19. Friederike Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt

2. Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia

20. Frederick William II of Prussia

10. Frederick William III of Prussia

21. Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt

5. Charlotte of Prussia

22. Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

11. Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

23. Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt

1. Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia

24. Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach

12. Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden

25. Amelia of Nassau-Dietz

6. Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden

26. Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Geyer von Geyersberg

13. Luise Karoline Geyer von Geyersberg

27. Maximiliane Christiana von Sponeck

3. Princess Cecilie of Baden

28. Gustav III of Sweden

14. Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden

29. Sophia Magdalena of Denmark

7. Sophie of Sweden

30. Margrave Charles Louis of Baden

15. Frederica of Baden

31. Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt

Bibliography

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia.

Alexander, Grand Duke of Russia, Once a Grand Duke, Cassell, London, 1932.
Chavchavadze, David, 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
George, Grand Duchess of Russia, A Romanov Diary, Atlantic International Publications, 1988. ISBN 0-938311-09-3
Hall, Coryne, Little mother of Russia, Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc, 2001. ISBN 0-8419-1421-4
King, Greg, Wilson, Penny, Gilded Prism, Eurohistory, 2006, ISBN 0-9771961-4-3
Troyat, Henri, Tolstoy , Doubleday, 1967. ISBN 0-8021-3768-7
Zeepvat, Charlotte, The Camera and the Tsars, Sutton Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3049-7.

References

^ Edvard Radzinsky (1996), Stalin: The First In-Depth Biography Based on Explosive Documents from Russia's Secret Archive, Anchor Books. Page 158-159.
^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1896), "Großherzogliche Orden" p. 62
^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Württemberg (1896), "Königliche Orden" p. 28
^ Lehmann, Gustaf (1913). Die Ritter des Ordens pour le mérite 1812–1913 [The Knights of the Order of the Pour le Mérite] (in German). Vol. 2. Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Sohn. p. 557.
^ "Ludewigs-orden", Großherzoglich Hessische Ordensliste (in German), Darmstadt: Staatsverlag, 1914, p. 5 – via hathitrust.org
^ M. & B. Wattel. (2009). Les Grand'Croix de la Légion d'honneur de 1805 à nos jours. Titulaires français et étrangers. Paris: Archives & Culture. p. 517. ISBN 978-2-35077-135-9.
^ Jørgen Pedersen (2009). Riddere af Elefantordenen, 1559–2009 (in Danish). Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag. p. 468. ISBN 978-87-7674-434-2.
^ "Ritter-Orden", Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie, 1916, pp. 32
^ Svensk rikskalender (in Swedish), 1909, p. 613, retrieved 6 January 2018 – via runeberg.org