Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia

Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia

Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (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 Elizabeth, the sister of Tsarina Alexandra.Grand Duke Sergei's education gave him lifelong interests in culture and the arts. Like all male members of the Romanov dynasty, he followed a military career, and he fought in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, receiving the Order of St George for courage and bravery in action. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia has received more than 805,350 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia is the 126th most popular nobleman (up from 127th in 2019), the 209th 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.