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Grand Duke Pyotr Nikolaevich was born in St Petersburg (1864). He was chief of the Grenadiers Sapper Battalion. Married Princess Militsa of Montenegro. Emigrated after the revolution and lived on the...
Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich was born in St Petersburg (1856). He graduated from the Nicholas School of Engineering and the Nicholas Academy of General Headquarters. Served under his father (1877–7...
Grand Duke Vyacheslav Konstantinovich was born in Warsaw (1862). He died at the age of sixteen from a brain inflammation in St Petersburg (1879).
Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich was born at the Konstantin Palace in Strelna (1860). He was chief of the Sixteenth Grenadiers Mingrelia Regiment. Served in the Horse Life Guards Regiment (until 189...
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich was born at the Konstantin Palace in Strelna (1858). He was a famous poet, who published his works under the pseudonym of “K.R.” Peter Tchaikovsky, Alexander Gla...
Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich was born in St Petersburg (1850). He died in Tashkent and was buried with great ceremony in the centre of the city by the Bolsheviks (1918).
Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich was born in Tiflis in Georgia (1875). He died of tuberculosis in Sanremo in Italy and was buried in the St Peter and St Paul Cathedral in St Petersburg (1895).
Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich was born in Borjomi in Georgia (1869). He was responsible for the Russian artillery during the First World War (1915–17). Murdered by the Bolsheviks in Alapayevsk in Si...
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich was a rear admiral. He was born in Tiflis in Georgia (1866). Married Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, eldest daughter of Tsar Alexander III, at Peterhof Palace (189...
Grand Duke Georgy Mikhailovich was born in Tetritskaro in Georgia (1863). He married Princess Maria of Greece, daughter of his cousin, Queen Olga of Greece. They had two daughters. Shot by the Bolshe...