Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovitch, his family and life

[ashanti01]

GD Olga and GD Mikhail

[Carolath Habsburg]

it was already posted but thanks anyway!

[Aglaya]

I like it even more then that cropped version posted before, those cupids and hearts are sweet:-)

Michael on the war front

[AGRBear]

I accidently stumbled over this link this afternoon.

I haven't any idea what it says, however, it appears to be some kind of biography of Michael:

http://romanov.blogs.sapo.pt/2008/08/?page=3

Is it?

AGRBear

[Carolath Habsburg]

Yup, its a biography of Mikhail from a Brazilian member of this forum (The link of APF appears right there)

[Aglaya]

Misha is going home.

Michael (on the right) with a group of ladies and faithful Johnson. Picture taken in Norway on the way from England to Russia, in summer 1914.

[Sara Araújo]

Yup, its a biography of Mikhail from a Brazilian member of this forum (The link of APF appears right there)

Portuguese.

Yes, it's a biography that I wrote back in 2008. It's little more than a translation of his wikipedia biography, I was that lazy. :p

[Aglaya]

GD Michael as a colonel of Chernichov Hussars

[Aglaya]

Misha with Olga

[Carolath Habsburg]

 

[wildone]

I have trouble understanding what people mean when they say that Mikhail grew up to look more Romanov.  To me, he favored Marie's side of the family in looks as a child, and while he later became tall and bony, he never really looked like Alexander III or his brothers.  Is tallness just a Romanov feature? 

[LisaDavidson]

Michael was a tall good looking man. what I wrote about him in The Grand Dukes is that he looked as one would expect a grand duke to look. I don't know exactly what others would say about him looking like a "Romanov". to me, he looked "the part".

Tallness in the family tended to come from Maria Feodorovna, the empress who married Emperor Paul. And obviously, many other people are tall besides the Romanovs!

[Aglaya]

Misha and his English tutor, Charles Heath

[GrandDuchessAndrea]

Did Misha in fact write a song in a camp tent during WWI on a guitar as portrayed in "Romanovy V.* Semya"?
* Sorry, can't spell this! 

[Aglaya]

I know nothing about that song, but I know that he was amateur composer, so who knows.... maybe...;-)

I like this movie but I think some moments seem completely false.
 The same with that last meeting of Michael and Nicholas, completely inconsistent with the facts. This could be a great scene, but unfortunately they wasted it. Pity.