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Re: Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevitch and his family
« Reply #120 on: December 07, 2010, 06:09:00 AM »





I think there is a certain resemblance.....    Margaret had to look crumpy for her roles!


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« Reply #121 on: December 11, 2010, 08:44:45 PM »
Nikolay Mikhailovich enjoyed very close,some would even say,oedipalrelation with his mother. He seemed to report about all the,even most insignificant,events to her. and he always ended his letters with "i kiss you with all my soul". once, nikolay`s brother visited is mother,and olfa feodorovna admitted that she would have preferred nikolay to his spouses.

What`s interesting, she always informed him about the weather wherever she was. And at times she even draw something like a smiley at the bottom of the page.  And of course she complianed about her sleeplessness, how stupid other people were, how tired she was etc. she even informed hi about her constipation :-[

she was "a very active"consort acompanying her husband to diffrent occasions. Whenever couldnt attend an event she atended for him. Se often took her children to such occasions.

On the whole,family life of olga feodorovna &mikhail nikolaevich was stable. when in 1885 olga feodorovna spent a lot of time in the south of fraisnce mikhail nikolaevich complained of his loneliness.

apparently, hiswife`s faults didn`t prevent the couple from enjoying harmonious relationship. may be, teir contrasting personality just suitedeach other?

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« Reply #122 on: December 12, 2010, 01:44:54 AM »
a few lines of gd nikolay mikhailovich`s letters to his mother testifying to the pathologically powerful link between the mother and the son

in 1882 " I now await with impatience your arrival"

at almost 30 he wrote:' it is 3 a m, I have not slept and I am consoling myself with writing you...what a delicious memory that I hold of the three weeks spent with you. ..Life is replete with happiness. I am crying as I write you this, and I feel unhappy because I must always run away from those  I love"

in 1887 he wrote that their estate "had an empty feeling without you"

nikolay mikhailovich also tried to please her mother particularly in the field of academic achievements. she encouraged him when he was 9 and repeated the same encouragement 10 years later


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Re: Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevitch and his family
« Reply #123 on: December 13, 2010, 02:46:07 AM »
a few lines of gd nikolay mikhailovich`s letters to his mother testifying to the pathologically powerful link between the mother and the son






And possibly becouse of that mother-son tender connection he never married. Such possessive mothers - as Olga was with Nikolai - very often hate daughters-in-laws looking at them like rivals.
The explanation of Nikolai's never-marrying becouse of his broken heart after refusal of Viktoria of Baden (future Queen of Sweden) always make me sceptical. In spite of that broken youthful love he had a strong and long relationship with a married woman, Princess Nelly Baryatinskaya.

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Re: Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevitch and his family
« Reply #124 on: December 19, 2010, 06:07:10 PM »
Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna:


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Re: Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevitch and his family
« Reply #125 on: December 20, 2010, 02:01:51 AM »
Interesting variable of the famous painting and original background.

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« Reply #126 on: December 20, 2010, 09:33:32 AM »
Interesting variable of the famous painting and original background.

It is Kavkaz in the background!

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Re: Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevitch and his family
« Reply #127 on: January 31, 2011, 06:24:27 AM »
After re-arranging of various topics on the Mikhailovitchi large clan,now the topics look like that:

On GDss Anastasia M.

http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=9182.0

On GD Mikhail M.

http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=16089.0

On GD Georgiy M.

http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=601.0

GD Alexander M. and family

http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=415.0

http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=14978.0

Children and descendants of Alexander M.

http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=4299.0


This topic is about GD Mikhail N., his wife Olga Fedorovna, their family life and general info, and on GD Nikolai, Sergei and Alexei M.


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Re: Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevitch and his family
« Reply #128 on: March 26, 2011, 04:55:55 AM »
Sergei Mikhailovich:


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Re: Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevitch and his family
« Reply #129 on: June 13, 2011, 04:02:08 PM »
Does anyone have any portraits of Mikhail Nikolaevich when he was young?  I've only ever seen him as a a boy and as an old man.

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Re: Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevitch and his family
« Reply #130 on: June 14, 2011, 08:13:41 AM »
here you go

suppossed mikhail by kriehuber 1852











 

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Re: Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevitch and his family
« Reply #131 on: June 28, 2011, 11:36:51 PM »
This portrait is identified only as Olga, Grossfurstin von Russland in a German site. I thought she looked like Olga Feodorovna so I posted it here. Name of the artist and the date it was painted is not mentioned.


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Re: Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevitch and his family
« Reply #132 on: June 28, 2011, 11:40:20 PM »
Interesting find! Really look very much like Olga F.

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Re: Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevitch and his family
« Reply #133 on: June 29, 2011, 04:28:15 AM »
Indeed,she does look like Olga Feodorovna...portrait above originated from a postcard in Waldleiningen museum...

Just for comaration of facial expression with Cecilie/Olga:

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRBeo6NIwxCM76xmPzX6Sg-jBvdL3wnB37E4gxermc42AUMe33u&t=1

The necklace is almost the same,if not the same!

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Re: Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevitch and his family
« Reply #134 on: July 23, 2011, 03:21:56 PM »


Postcard of Olga Feodorovna.