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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...
Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich was born in Peterhof (1861). He concluded a morganatic marriage with Countess Sophie of Merenberg, granddaughter of Alexander Pushkin (1891). Banished to England, wher...
Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich was a leading historian and liberal. He was born in Tsarskoe Selo (1859). Chairman of the Russian History Society. Served in the Russian army (1894–1903). Corresponded...