Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia

Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia

Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (Russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович; 4 December [O.S. 22 November] 1878 – 13 June 1918) was the youngest son and fifth child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and youngest brother of Nicholas II. He was de jure Emperor of Russia after his brother Nicholas II abdicated in 1917 and proclaimed his brother "Emperor Michael II", but Michael declined to take power a day later. Michael was born during the reign of his paternal grandfather, Alexander II. He was then fourth-in-line to the throne after his father and elder brothers Nicholas and George. After the assassination of his grandfather in 1881, he became third-in-line and, in 1894, after the death of his father, second-in-line. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia has received more than 1,710,682 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia is the 52nd most popular nobleman (up from 60th in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Russia (up from 112th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Nobleman.

Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia was the youngest son of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna. He was heir to the throne until his father's death in 1894.