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Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia

1857 - 1905

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Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (‹See Tfd›Russian: Сергей Александрович; 11 May 1857 – 17 February 1905) was the fifth son and seventh child of Emperor Alexander II of Russia. He was an influential figure during the reigns of his brother Emperor Alexander III of Russia and his nephew Emperor Nicholas II, who was also his brother-in-law through Sergei's marriage to Elisabeth, the sister of Empress Alexandra. Grand Duke Sergei's education gave him lifelong interests in culture and the arts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia has received more than 1,154,539 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia is the 149th most popular nobleman (down from 140th in 2019), the 221st most popular biography from Russia (down from 208th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Nobleman.

Sergei Alexandrovich was the second son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and his first wife, Maria Alexandrovna. He was a younger brother of Alexander III of Russia and a half-brother of Nicholas II. He became heir apparent to the Russian throne after the assassination of his father in 1881.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia ranks 149 out of 1,415. Before him are Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Ramesses VIII, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Miguel I of Portugal, Ramesses VII, and Robert Curthose. After him are Ramesses IX, Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, Haakon VI of Norway, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, and Galeazzo Maria Sforza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia ranks 22. Before him are Theo van Gogh, Eugen Bleuler, Alexander of Battenberg, Paul Doumer, Axel Munthe, and Andrija Mohorovičić. After him are Thorstein Veblen, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Ronald Ross, Georg Michaelis, and Joseph Babinski. Among people deceased in 1905, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia ranks 8. Before him are William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Muhammad Abduh, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Ernst Abbe, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Per Teodor Cleve. After him are Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Louise Michel, Adolph Menzel, Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, Carl Wernicke, and Albert Edelfelt.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia ranks 221 out of 3,761. Before him are Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Raisa Gorbacheva (1932), Ivan Goncharov (1812), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), Gustav Bauer (1870), and Maya Plisetskaya (1925). After him are Alexander Oparin (1894), Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827), Nikolay Basov (1922), Vasily I of Moscow (1371), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), and Oleg Antonov (1906).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Russia

Among noblemen born in Russia, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia ranks 10. Before him are Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904), Olga of Kiev (890), Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878), Dmitry Donskoy (1350), Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882), and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853). After him are Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827), Daniel of Moscow (1261), Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876), Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia (1843), Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860), and Dmitry of Uglich (1582).

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