Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia


Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia was the sixth son and youngest child of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia and a first cousin of Alexander III of Russia. He was destined to follow a career in the Russian Navy, but he died in his youth of tuberculosis.

Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia was born in Tiflis onDecember 1875, the sixth son and last child of the seven children of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia and his wife Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna, born Princess Cecile of Baden. He was the cadet member of the Mikhailovichi branch of the Romanov family and the only Grand Duke to bear the name and patronymic of a Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia.

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