Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovitch, his family and life

[Aglaya]

Tata's governess,  GD Andrei Vladimirovich, GD Mikhail Alexandrovich, Natasha Brasova, Nicholas Johnson and Tata Mamontova.

[Maria_Pavlovna]

Tata also written a book, ""Step-Daughter of Imperial Russia".  also to find good info of Tata is in "Michael and Nastaha". Sadly theres not a lot of photos of Tata or Georgie. I would really wish someone would write a book about step and illegitimate children of the Romanovs. that would be awesome!

[Aglaya]

[Clemence]

I have a question about divorce in the Russian Orthodox Chrurch. In "War and Peace", Tolstoy satirizes the attempt by Ellen Bezukova to get a divorce by converting to Roman Catholicism and renouncing her marriage to Pierre. All the other charcters in the book are amazed at her ingenuity because they could never imagine a woman with a living husband marrying another man.

But one hundred years later, Natalie divorced her second husband to marry her third-Michael. Did the Church change its position or did Tolstoy employ dramatic license?

I don't think Tolstoy took dramatic license. I am just speculating that the church changed its position. But considering the dogmatic nature of the Russian Orthodox Church that seems hard to believe. Another big no-no for the church was two brothers marrying two sisters. That was perhaps one big reason why the Montenegrin sisters were so despised and resented because they married two brothers. Even there I cannot understand how the church would allow it.

there is an exception in the no about two brothers marrying two sisters: if the four of them marry the same day, same hour by the same minister.

by the way, Natalia seems to me more beautiful than AF 

[Aglaya]

[Carolath Habsburg]

Im looking for that picture in bigger. I d love to colorize. Please, if someone has it, post it!


Thanks for remind me, Aglaya!

Ps: a few days i found this cute portrait of Mikhail

[Aglaya]

Wow!!! Great! Katenka, do you know, who painted that portrait?...

Young Misha and Olga.

[Clelia]

Michael in technicolor

[Carolath Habsburg]

No idea. There was no credits about the author in that page =(

This one is curious. Its a composite of Nicholas and Family with Mikhail

[Clemence]

I know that divorced women were anathema in most Royal Courts and were not recieved, as this would have been seen as condonement of divorce. Did the Russian Court have a different take on divorced women ?. If not, why was Princess Paley recieved by the Empress ?   

Becouse Princess Paley was a very wise and cunning woman who knew how to live in high-society and how to reach her ambitions - she wanted to white-wash her reputation (and so of her children in the future)  and be received at the Imperial Court by hook or by crook , and after all she was received by the Empress. Princess Olga was not a liberal-minded Natalia and never worsen her relations with the Romanovs.

but the two ladies have different age so maybe it's hard to compare their way of dealing with the imperial family ...?

[Aglaya]

I'd love to see that one bigger and better quality...

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Teen Misha with father, sister and... his tutor[?]:

[Aglaya]

Photos of Mikhail's childhood and youth in Gatchina.

[Ally Kumari]

Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich as a boy

[Aglaya]

Misha in Gatchina.

[Carolath Habsburg]

I d love to have that picture in bigger to colorize it *0*