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Grand Duke Alexander Mihailovich of Russia, Александр Михайлович
Aleksandr Mihailovits (
13 April 1866 -
26 February 1933) was a
dynast of
Russian empire, a naval officer, an author, explorer, the husband of
Emperor Nicholas II's sister, and an advisor of the said Emperor.
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 born in
Tbilisi, Georgia. Grand Duke Alexander was a naval officer (to which, Finland was an important base, the Baltic fleet being Russia's main navy). In his youth, he made a good-will visit to developing
Japan on behalf of the Russian empire, as well as to
Brazilian empire. He married his first cousin's daughter,
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, the eldest daughter of
Alexander III on the and was thus a brother-in-law of the last
Tsar Nicholas II, to whose close advisors he belonged. His impact on the Tsar has been (mildly) both criticized and appreciated. He and his family, together with his mother-in-law the Dowager Empress
Maria Fyodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark), were rescued from
Crimea by British battleship
HMS Marlborough in the quagmire of the 1917 revolution, and thus they survived. In exile, he wrote his
memoirs, a source of dynastical and court life in imperial Russia's last half-century ("Once A Grand Duke", Farrar and Rinehart, Inc, New York, 1933). He also spent a time as guest of Empress
Zauditu of Ethiopia, another eastern Christian princess, in Eastern Africa.
Together Alexander and Xenia had seven children:
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