Nikolay Mikhailovich (1859-1919), Grand Prince

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NIKOLAY MIKHAILOVICH (1859, Tsarskoe Selo - 1919, Petrograd), Grand Prince, general of infantry (1913), adjutant general (1903), honorary member of Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1898). The son of Grand Prince Mikhail Nikolaevich, grandson of Emperor Nicholas I. He graduated from the Academy of General Staff (1885), in 1894-1903 he served in the Caucasus. From 1892, he was president of the Russian Geographic Society. He was interested in entomology, gathering a large collection of insects, which he presented to the Zoological Museum in 1898. From the early 1900s, he was involved in historical research, wrote extensive works on the reign of Emperor Alexander I, and introduced a great number of sources for the 18th - early 19th centuries of Russian history into the principles of academic research. He organised and sponsored the publication of Russian Portraits of the 18th and 19th Centuries (vol. 1-5, 1905-09). Furthermore, he established a number of necropoleis including the so called Petersburg Necropolis. From 1910, he was president of the Society for the Protection and Preservation of Russian Monuments of Art and Antiquity and the Imperial Russian Historical Society, he proposed the publication of the Russian Biographic Dictionary (12 volumes had been published before 1917). In April 1918, he was exiled together with other Grand Princes to Vologda, in August he was arrested, brought to Petrograd, and was held in the Peter and Paul Fortress by order of Petrograd Extraordinary Commission (the Petrograd Cheka), in late January 1919, as part of the Red Terror. He owned the Novo-Mikhailovsky Palace and Mikhailovskaya summer residence.

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Nikolay Mikhailovich, Grand Prince
Быков А. В. Путь на Голгофу: Хроника гибели великих князей Романовых. Вологда, 2000
Книга в России: Проблемы источниковедения и историографии: Сб. науч. тр. СПб., 1991
Измозик В. С., Павлов Б.В. Великий князь Николай Михайлович // Из глубины времен: Альм. СПб., 1994
Цамутали А.Н. Августейший историк: Великий князь Николай Михайлович // Историки России, XVIII - начало ХХ в. М., 1996
Исмаил-заде Д.И. Великий князь Николай Михайлович // Исмаил-заде Д.И. Императрица Елисавета Алексеевна: Единств. роман императрицы. М., 2001 Russian Academy of Sciences
General Staff Academy
Russian Geographical Society
Museum of Zoology
Peterburgsky Nekropol (The St. Petersburg Necropolis), information guide
Russian Historical Society
St. Peter and Paul fortress
St. Peter and Paul fortress
Red Terror
Mikhailovka, manor
1919