Georgi Michailowitsch Romanow (1863-1919)

Georgi Michailowitsch Romanow, 1901 by Valentin Serov

Georgi Mikhailovich Romanov , Russian Великий Князь Георгий Михайлович Романов (born August 11 ^{. Jul} / 23. August 1863 ^greg. In Tbilisi ; † the 30th January 1919 in Petrograd ) was a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I .

Life

Georgi was the third son of Grand Duke Michael Nikolajewitsch Romanow (1832-1909) and his wife Princess Cäcilie von Baden (1839-1891), the daughter of Grand Duke Leopold I of Baden and his wife Princess Sophie Wilhelmine of Holstein-Gottorp , Princess of Sweden.

Georgi Mikhailovich Romanov, 1903

Like his father, Georgi served in the Russian army and rose to general . On January 30, 1919 , the Bolsheviks shot him together with his brother Grand Duke Nikolai Michailowitsch and two cousins, Grand Duke Pawel Alexandrovich and Dmitri Konstantinovich , in the Peter and Paul Fortress in Petersburg . In 1999 he was rehabilitated by the Russian state. In 2011, Russian archaeologists reported that excavations in the Peter and Paul Fortress likely found the graves of the grand dukes by chance.

On April 30, 1900 married Grand Duke Georgy Mikhailovich Romanov on Corfu Princess Maria of Greece (1876-1940), daughter of the Greek King George I and his wife Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna Romanova . Two daughters, Nina Georgievna (1901–1974) and Xenia Georgievna (1903–1965) emerged from the marriage.

His daughter, Grand Duchess Xenia Georgievna Romanova, granted in 1927 for several months Anna Anderson housing law that maintained the claim to its end of life, with the murdered Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna , the youngest daughter of the last Tsar Nicholas II. And his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna , identical to be.

Secondary literature

Alexander, Grand Duke of Russia, Once a Grand Duke, Cassell, Londres, 1932.
David Chavchavadze: The Grand Dukes , Atlantic (1989) ISBN 0-938311-11-5
Jamie H. Cockfield: White Crow , Praeger (2002) ISBN 0-275-97778-1
George, Grand Duchess of Russia, “A Romanov Diary”, Atlantic International Publications, 1988. ISBN 0-938311-09-3
Greg King and Penny Wilson: Gilded Prism , Eurohistory (2006) ISBN 0-9771961-4-3

Web links

Je.W. Ptschelow and AN Bochanow: Genealogy of the Romanows 1613–2001 (Генеалогия Романовых 1613–2001), Exlibris-Press 2001, page 74 (Russian)

Individual evidence

↑ Les Russes pensent avoir retrouvé les restes de princes Romanov. Tribune de Genève, June 8, 2011, archived from the original on February 1, 2015 ; Retrieved February 7, 2013 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Romanov, Georgi Michailowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Великий Князь Георгий Михайлович Романов (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Grandson of Tsar Nicholas I.
DATE OF BIRTH	August 23, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tbilisi
DATE OF DEATH	January 30, 1919
Place of death	Petrograd

[1] Les Russes pensent avoir retrouvé les restes de princes Romanov. Tribune de Genève, June 8, 2011, archived from the original on February 1, 2015 ; Retrieved February 7, 2013 (French).