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. 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. George died in 1899, leaving Michael as heir presumptive to Nicholas II. The birth of Nicholas's son Alexei in 1904 moved Michael back to second-in-line, but Alexei was gravely ill with hemophilia and Michael suspected the boy would die, leaving him as heir. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia has received more than 1,480,865 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 51st 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.