Alexander was born the son of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia, the youngest son of Nicholas I of Russia, and Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna (Cecily of Baden). Through his mother, Grand Duke Alexander was a great-grandson of the reputedly imbalanced king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, the last Swedish Grand Duke of Finland (at the time of Alexander's life, Finland belonged to Alexander's agnatic house and its ruler was head of its senior branch, making Alexander entitled to eventual succession to the Finnish Throne and also one of the "Princes of Finland"). He was mostly known as "Sandro".
Alexander lived in Paris and wrote his memoirs. "Once a Grand Duke" (Farrar & Rinehart 1933) is a source of dynastical and court life in Imperial Russia's last half-century. He also spent a time as guest of the future Abyssinian Emperor Ras Tafaro. He talks about why he was invited to Ethiopia ,in his continuation of his biography "Always a Grand Duke". He died in 26 February 1933 in Roquebrune, France. He was buried on 1 March in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the south of France. His wife Xenia died in Hampton Court Palace in 1960.
Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich grand duke of Russia
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Dynast of the Russian Empire, a naval officer, an author, explorer, the brother-in-law of - and an advisor to - Emperor Nicholas II
Born | 13 April 1866 |
Died | 26 February 1933 |
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Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich grand duke of Russia
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Dynast of the Russian Empire, a naval officer, an author, explorer, the brother-in-law of - and an advisor to - Emperor Nicholas II
Born | 13 April 1866 |
Died | 26 February 1933 |
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Court and courtiers, Courts and courtiers, Royal Family, Biographies, Biography, Cour et courtisans, Court & courtiers, Emperor, Exile, Fiction, Grand Duke, Princes, Religions (Proposed, universal, etc.), Romanov, Soul, Spiritual lifePeople
Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich grand duke of Russia (1866-1933), Alexander II Emperor of All Russia, Alexander III Emperor of All Russia, Alexander Mikhailovich Grand Duke of Russia, Alexander Mikhaĭlovich Grand Duke of Russia (1866-1933), Alexandra Feodorovna Empress of All Russia, Alexei Alexendrovich Grand Duke, Alfred Lowenstein, Catherine II Empress of Russia (1729-1796), Haile Selassie Emperor of Ethopia. Alexandra Queen of England, Ivar Krueger, Kyrill Vladimirovich Grand Duke of Russia, Maria Feodorovna Empress of All Russia, Maria Feodorovna Empress of Russia, Matttheos X Abuna of Ethopia, Micheal Mikhailovich Grand Duke, Micheal Nicolaievich Grand Duke, Myron Herrick, Nicholas Alexandrovich Grand Duke, Nicholas II Emperor of All Russia, Nicholas Mikhailovich Grand Duke, Nicholas Nicholaeivich Jr Grand Duke, Olga Feodorovna Grand Duchess, Sergei Alexandrovich Grand Duke, Sergei Mikhailovich Grand DukeID Numbers
- OLID: OL2307216A
- ISNI: 0000000109020815
- VIAF: 54171898
- Wikidata: Q464626
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