#mikhail mikhailovich

[romanovsonelastdance]

Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich and his morganatic wife, Sophie, Countess de Torby, in costume.

[imperial-russia]

“The August Family” poster or possibly a calendar cover (?)

[ykzzr]

The imperial family on the skating rink in the garden of the Anichkov Palace 1890.

Tsar Alexander III, Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, Grand Dukes George Alexandrovich, Mikhail Alexandrovich, Alexander Mikhailovich and Sergei Mikhailovich.

[loiladadiani]

The Romanov Martyrs

I wanted to put together a little memorial that included all the members of the Romanov Family (as well as the members of their staff) that were murdered by the Bolshevik terrorists. This seems like a good week to keep them in our minds. Although we love and mourn the children especially, there were others we cannot forget.

Tsar Alexandre II was hunted down until finally blown to pieces.

Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna lost two sons and five grandchildren (no wonder she could not accept they were dead)

Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich was also hunted down and blown to pieces

Three Mikhailovichi brothers were murdered

Four Konstantinovichi were murdered, three of them brothers; I cannot imagine what their mother, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna, went through...and so on.

May they rest in peace.

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

First of all, I wanted to thank you for the interesting posts and photos you publish💋❤

My question is, did tsar Nicholas II ever meet his nephew George, son of grand duke Michael ?

or did OTMA ever meet their cousin?

Hello anon! Thank you for the compliments! I’m so glad you enjoy my blog! So for a brief rundown of who this George person is, he was OTMAA’s uncle (and Nicky’s brother) Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich’s son from his morganatic marriage to Countess Natalia Sergeyevna Brasova. Mikhail and Natalia cherished their young son and Mikhail and Georgy met several times before Misha was executed in 1918.

Georgy was born on July 24th 1910 when Olga was 14, Tatiana was 13, Maria was 11, Anastasia was 9, and Alexei was 5. Because Georgy was the product of a morganatic marriage, a marriage not getting approval from the monarch, and going against the laws of the Russian Orthodox Church, Nicholas most likely would not have allowed his children to meet their cousin.

Nicholas was a VERY faithful man and took morganatic marriages VERY seriously. He was very close to Misha and felt probably very betrayed by his actions. Because of this, Nicky would’ve not wanted to meet Georgy and would’ve kept his children away from him. I’m not 100% sure if they did happen to meet in the 7 years before they were killed. There is a chance though!

I think that @otmaaromanovas could go digging a lot more into if they ever possibly had met because she is a queen when it comes to letters and diaries!

Thank you for asking and sorry this took a long time to answer!

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Mikhail Mikhailovich Zelensky - Resurrection of Jairus' Daughter, 1871.

[loiladadiani]

Portraits of Members of the Russian Imperial Family by Valentin Serov

Valentin Serov is one of my favorite Russian painters. He came from a family of artists and had a long and successful career, during which his style as a painter and politics changed. Regardless, we "Romanov Obsessives" are familiar with most of his excellent portraits of the Romanovs, but it is worth it to present them here. It is always a pleasure to look at good art.

Portraits:

1 and 2: Emperor Nicholas II; Trivia regarding the portrait where Nicholas appears in blue/grey uniform: When asked about the true color of Nicholas' eyes, the painter said that they were the color of the uniform and background. Another anecdote: When Nicholas saw the painting, he kept on asking if it was "finished" as he was not quite used to the more modern, post-impressionistic style in which the painter executed it.

3 and 4: Emperor Alexander III

5 and 6: Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and his father, Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich

7 and 8: Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna and Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich

Valentin Serov, Self-Portrait

Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (19 January 1865 – 5 December 1911) was a painter and one of the premier portrait artists of his era. He was from the Russian Empire

[thepaleys]

Some time in 1895 or the early months of 1896, the Grand Prince had an encounter that would change all their lives, and seriously damage relationships within the family. He fell in love with Olga von Pistolkors, the wife of a captain in his regiment who was also aide-de-camp to his brother Grand Prince Vladimir. The couple had three young children: nonetheless, Pavel began an affair with Olga. It was a serious abuse of his position, both as Eric von Pistolkors' commanding officer and as a member of the reigning family. In the summer of 1896 he was moved to a different regimental family, but if this had anything to do with the affair it came too late. In January 1896 Olga gave birth to a son, who was not her husband's child. Pavel had no intention of ending the affair and he must have known that sooner or later it would precipitate a crisis. He began to take more interest in Marie and Dmitri and there were no visits to Ilinskoe in 1897 and 1898, instead he took the children to Europe.

He let go of the memory of Alexandra; her clothes, untouched since her death, were sorted out and disposed of, while Marie was moved into her mother's rooms. Pavel was resolved to marry Olga, whose own marriage had effectively ended with the birth of their son, but he knew there would be problems. His cousin Mikhail Mikhailovich had been banished for contracting an unsuitable marriage without permission, and Mikhail's wife was not even a divorcee. In 1900 Pavel began to sound his brothers out on the idea of a morganatic marriage, but he also bought a house in Paris from the Yusupov family. Then he discussed his plans with his nephew, the young Tsar.

Romanov Autumn - Charlotte Zeepvat

[stargazer-sims]

OC Questions Tag

Oh, this is a good one! Thanks for the tag @honeybeenrw !

I'm going to do Nikolai (green) and Mishka (blue), since they had a little photo shoot together this weekend and are feeling more inseparable than usual. 😉

Mishka & Nikolai

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NAME: Mikhail Petrovich Vasiliev

NICKNAME: Mishka (only for family and close friends)

GENDER: male

STAR SIGN: Aquarius (10 February)

HEIGHT: 196cm

ORIENTATION: bisexual

NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY: Russian / white

FAVOURITE FRUIT: apple

FAVOURITE SEASON: summer

FAVOURITE FLOWER: white clover, roses

FAVOURITE SCENT: freshly-cut grass

COFFEE, TEA, or HOT CHOCOLATE: coffee is his hot drink of choice, but he likes both tea and hot chocolate as well.

AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: 8 hours is his average, but don’t underestimate Mishka’s ability to sleep. Left unsupervised or without setting an alarm, he can sleep for 10-11 hours.

DOGS or CATS: If he had to choose between only those two, it’d be cats. But Mishka is an animal lover and has an affinity for most creatures.

DREAM TRIP: He’d want to go to Chestnut Ridge because he’s fascinated by the desert and he loves to ride.

NUMBER OF BLANKETS: Usually just one. He doesn’t tend to get cold easily.

RANDOM FACT: He has a terrible sense of direction and has extreme anxiety about getting lost anywhere. This is the reason he doesn’t like going to new places by himself. His anxiety about his poor sense of direction makes his ability to navigate even worse, and he’s occasionally been known to full-on panic and even cry during a panic attack when he gets mixed up and finds himself somewhere he didn’t intend to be or can’t find his way back. A situation like this is actually how he and Nikolai met.

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NAME: Nikolai Mikhailovich Pavlenko

NICKNAME: Kolya (only for family and close friends); Nik (only for close English-speaking friends)

GENDER: male

STAR SIGN: Sagittarius (18 December)

HEIGHT: 173cm

ORIENTATION: bisexual

NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY: first-generation Canadian (his parents are Russian-Canadians) / white

FAVOURITE FRUIT: blueberries

FAVOURITE SEASON: autumn and winter

FAVOURITE FLOWER: chrysanthemums

FAVOURITE SCENT: peppermint

COFFEE, TEA, or HOT CHOCOLATE: His preference is coffee, but he also likes tea. He’s not a fan of chocolate in general.

AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: He usually gets between 6.5 and 7 hours of sleep a night

DOGS or CATS: He likes most animals but definitely considers himself a cat person.

DREAM TRIP: Nikolai doesn’t like to travel. If he can’t get there by car or bicycle in less than two hours, he’d rather not go. His “dream trip” is just getting far enough away to say he’s out of town, and going camping with Mishka.

NUMBER OF BLANKETS: Usually only one. Mishka is very cuddly in bed and keeps him sufficiently warm. He might use a second blanket if he were sleeping alone.

RANDOM FACT: He’s gifted when it comes to languages. He’s fluent in three languages; Russian, English and French. He also has functional Korean, which he learned from his student Eden’s family, and basic Japanese, which he learned while living in Japan with Eden for nearly a year.

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Feel free to ignore if you’ve already done it or don’t want to. (Also, I don’t mind being tagged more than once 😆)

[zzimaa1999]

// alright, debate over, his "real" name will be Фëдор Михайлович Баринов (Fyodor Mikhailovich Barinov)!

Fyodor since... he just seems like a Fyodor, Barinov since it fits in as a old royal name that is not very recognizable / specific, and Mikhailovich since that the patronymic of Mikhail which was a very popular name amongst the Russian elite, a lot of Tsars were named Mikhail!

also, the debate is very much not over. expect this name to be likely changed. honestly just double check it in the CARRD.

[loiladadiani]

It is great to see handsome Miche-Miche and beautiful Sophie in color!

Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich and his wife Sophie de Torby for the coronation of Edward VII, August 1902

[ykzzr]

Prince George Mikhailovich Brasov on his motorcycle 1920s

[loiladadiani]

👑The Romanov Dynasty

The Grand Duchy of Moscow under Prince Ivan III was the first unified state on Russian territory. With him began the Rurikid Dynasty (the Rurikid had been around for a long time along hoards of tartars).

The Rurikid ruled from the 1400s until the 1600s. Ivan III can be considered the founder of Russia. While the Rurikid were in power, the Romanovs were boyars (nobles) in their courts. When the Ruriks became extinct, the Romanovs took over. The "Zemsky Sorbor" (a rudimentary parliament) elected Mikhail Feodorovich as the first Romanov Tzar.

The direct male line of the Romanovs ended with Elizabeth of Russia, who was childless. Her nephew Peter III, a member of the House of Holstein-Gottorp (a cadet branch of the German House of Oldenburg that reigned in Denmark), ascended to the throne and adopted his Romanov mother’s house name. Descendants after Elizabeth are sometimes referred to as "Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov."

The above is a gross oversimplification of a very complex course of events.

Highlights about each Romanov Tsar/Tsarina:

👑Mikhail Feodorovich (1613 - 1645): First Romanov Tsar

👑Alexei Mikhailovich (1645 - 1676): Encouraged trade and cooperation with Europe. Father of Peter the Great

👑Feodor III (1676 - 1682): Had very poor health and spent most of his reign in bed

👑Peter I and ��� Ivan V (1689 - 1785): It was complicated. The two of them were Tsars under the regency of their older sister Sophia.

👑Peter I (1689-1725): Reformed Russia's politics, government, and culture. Made Russia a military power.

👑Catherine I (1725-1727): At the time of Peter the Great's death, the mechanism for succession consisted of the Tsar selecting his successor, but Peter did not elect one before dying. His wife became the Tsarina, but others governed through her.

👑Peter II (1727-1730): Peter's grandson; ascended the throne at 11 and died at 14. The "Privy Council" or "Soviet" ruled through him.

👑Anna Ioannovna (1730-1740): Daughter of Peter's half-brother Ivan. The Privy Council invited her to rule (wanting her to be a puppet), but she disbanded them and ruled herself successfully.

👑Ivan VI (1740-1741): One-year-old son of Ana's niece. She left the throne to him, expecting his mother to govern. Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great, deposed him (and his mother.)

👑Elizabeth Petrovna (1741-1761): Last Russian on the Russian throne; her twenty-year reign was successful.

👑Peter III (1761-1762): Grandson of Peter the Great and next in line for the throne after Elizabeth. Ruled for only half a year before being deposed by his wife, Catherine. He was murdered soon after the coup d’etat.

👑Catherine the Great (1762-1796):  Her accomplishment went from the Empire’s territorial expansion to political development to the proliferation of sciences. However, the Empire had an enormous external debt by the end of her reign.

👑Paul I (1796-1801): Paul, the son of Catherine the Great and Peter III, became Emperor at 42 after the death of his mother. He started a lot of major military and political reforms. Paul was murdered in a coup d'etat. Paul decreed house laws for the Romanovs (the Pauline laws) – among the strictest in Europe – which established semi-Salic primogeniture and required Orthodox faith for the monarch and dynasts

👑Alexander I (1801-1825): During his reign, Russia defeated Napoleon's forces (which got as far as Moscow in their attempt to conquer Russia.) There was also great development in culture and arts.

👑Nicholas I (1825-1855): Paul I’s third son, younger brother of Alexander. Started railroad construction in Russia, boosting industrialization. Codified Russian laws and reformed finances.

👑Alexander II (1855-1881): His major reforms included the peasant emancipation of 1861, military reform, and the introduction of new types of self-governing village societies and more. Unfortunately, he fell victim to a terrorist after five attempts.

👑Alexander III (1881-1894): Russia didn’t enter any wars in his time. His domestic policy was conservative. He amended the Pauline laws. The economy flourished. But the revolution was brewing below the surface.

👑Nicholas II (1894-1917): His policies were unsuccessful. Established the first official Duma in 1905, but it was too little too late. With the advent of WWI, the Russian Empire ceased to exist. He abdicated. (gcl)

Sources:

Panov, A., Delaroche, P., & Abramuchkin, Y. (2021, July 31). The Complete List of Russian Tsars, Emperors, and Presidents. Russia Beyond. Retrieved June 20, 2023, from https://www.rbth.com/history/334065-complete-list-of-russian-tsars-emperors-rulers-presidents

[orthodoxydaily]

SAINTS&READING: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

september 7_september 20

Venerable Macarius of Optina (1860).

Forefeast of the nativity of the most Holy Mother of God

The first lesson at Great Vespers (Genesis 28:10-17) describes Jacob’s dream of a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, and the angels ascending and descending upon it. The second lesson (Ezekiel 43:27-44:4) speaks of the gate of the sanctuary which faces east. God enters through this gate, which is shut so that no one else can enter by it. The third reading (Proverbs 9:1-11) talks about the house that Wisdom has built.

These readings are interpreted as prefiguring the Mother of Go

VENERABLE MACARIUS OF OPTINA (1860)

The time of Elder Macarius’s ministry as an elder is often hailed as the “Golden Age” in the history of Optina Monastery. Under his guidance, the monastery became a spiritual centre of Russia. During the latter half of the 19th century, it played a significant role in the gradual return to Orthodoxy within Russian culture, which had been under strong Western influence since the time of Peter the Great.

Mikhail Nikolayevich Ivanov was born into a noble family in the Oryol province. His great-grandfather, Ivan, was a monk of the Karachev St. Nicholas Monastery in Odryn, taking the name Joseph upon entering monastic life.

The future holy ascetic grew up in a pious family. His father, Nikolai Mikhailovich Ivanov, was in the civil service rank of a collegiate assessor. He and his wife, Elizaveta Alexeyevna, lived near the Lavrentiev Monastery in the village of Zheleznyaki, Kaluga province. On 20 November 1788, their son Mikhail was born. The child was named after St. Michael, Prince of Tver. After some time, four more children arrived: three sons and a daughter. The mother noticed that her eldest son differed from the other children and said that “something extraordinary” would come of this boy.

Years of study and entry into service

Elizaveta Alexeyevna died of tuberculosis in 1797 in Moscow, where the family temporarily resided for her treatment. After burying his wife, Nikolai Mikhailovich first settled with his children at their estate in the village of Schepyatino and later moved to his sister’s home in Karachev. The father enrolled his eldest sons in the town’s parochial school, where they remained until 1801 when his sister and her family moved to the countryside. There, Mikhail’s cousin acquired a home tutor. He also taught Mikhail and his brothers, as their aunt had taken them all into her village home.

Mikhail was the eldest. He lived in the village for about a year and then entered the service as an accountant in the Lgov District Treasury, where S. Ya. Sandulov, a relative of the Ivanovs, was in charge. Two of his kin, both named Alexei, became Mikhail’s assistants in the service, one his own brother and the other a cousin. Alexei Peredelsky, his second cousin, recalled: “Piety, godliness, chastity, meekness, and moral purity were always in his nature. He mostly avoided our childish games and amusements, preferring instead to engage in reading and crafts, like making cardboard models or embroidery. When he came of age, during his secular life, he did not shun decent social pleasures but did not show any particular inclination towards them either. He loved music... he also loved singing. His voice was weak, but this deficiency was compensated for by his knowledge and understanding of music.”

In 1805, Mikhail was appointed head of the accounting expedition office in Kursk and received a promotion in rank. During this period, Mikhail developed an interest in music and literature, devoting all his free time to these pursuits. While participating in society, he remained a humble man. Despite mingling with society, he remained modest; his shyness and thinness — owing to frail health since childhood — earned him the playful nickname “monk.”

In 1806, Mikhail Nikolayevich’s father departed to God leaving him and his siblings — four brothers and a sister — without parents. They remained united, supporting one another and making decisions collectively. At a family meeting, they agreed that the estate should be entrusted to the eldest son.

Mikhail resided in the village for two years but did not achieve success in managing the property. It is recounted that the servants even mocked the hapless landowner who refused to employ conventional methods — harsh punishments and reprimands. However, one incident stands out. Some peasants stole a large amount of buckwheat, an act that could not go unnoticed. Mikhail summoned them and admonished them with words from the Holy Scripture, urging them not to anger God. Deeply moved, the peasants confessed to their theft, repented wholeheartedly for their actions, and begged for forgiveness tearfully on their knees. Neighbours constantly sought his assistance, and he never refused anyone, never turned anyone away, even if it meant neglecting his own affairs.

His relatives tried to arrange a marriage for Mikhail, but they couldn’t find a suitable bride. In his heart, he was becoming increasingly firm in his desire to dedicate himself to God.

On October 6, 1810, Mikhail Nikolayevich set out on a pilgrimage to the Ploschanskaya Hermitage and never returned home. He sent a letter to his relatives, informing them that he was staying at the monastery and transferring the estate to his brothers’ full disposal. He was only 22 years old at the time...continue reading St Elizabeth Convent

VENERABLE CASSIANI THE HYMNOGRAPHER (9th c.).

Saint Cassiani (Cassianḗ) is a well-known Byzantine poet (ποιήτρια), who lived during the reign of Emperor Theophilos (829 – 842).

She was tonsured about the year 820, and founded a convent on Xerolophos, one of Constantinople's seven hills. There (according to the monk George the Sinful) she led "an ascetic and philosophical life" which was pleasing to God. She was an energetic Igoumeness who not only regulated the life of the convent, but also found time to pursue her literary interests. She combined the talents of poet, theologian and musician, writing hymns and composing musical settings for them. Originally sung by her nuns, many of her compositions have enduring value. At least twenty-three of her hymns were later included in the Church's liturgical books.

One of Saint Cassiani's most famous hymns is sung during Matins on Holy Wednesday, on the subject of the woman who had fallen into many sins, which is based on Saint Luke's Gospel (7:36-50).

Another of her hymns is sung in the Canon of Matins for Holy Saturday, and is repeated at the Midnight Office on Holy Pascha: "Do not weep for me, O Mother, beholding in the tomb the Son Whom thou hast conceived without seed in thy womb, for I shall arise. . ."

Saint Cassiani is not mentioned in the Synaxaristes (Synaxaristés), yet the inhabitants of Kasos, because of the similarity of her name with that of their island, celebrate her Feast Day on September 7. A special Church Service was composed in her honor, and it was published in Alexandria in 1889 by the "Reformed" (or "Reorganized") printing house.

It is strange, however, that this Service was dedicated to Patriarch Sophronios of Alexandria, who in turn gave it to Metropolitan Germanos (Germanós) of Thebes to be printed (on September 1, 1889). Thus, Cassiani's glorification by the Church of Alexandria was somehow formalized, as the inhabitants of Kasos desired.

For centuries Saint Cassiani's name has appeared at the end of all the lists of Byzantine poets. The first known list was compiled by Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos (Nikēphóros Kállistos Xanthopoulos) in the first half of the XIV century.

Saint Cassiani is depicted among the holy ascetics and other monastics in the icon for the Triumph of Orthodoxy on the first Sunday of Lent.

Source: Orthodox Church in America_OCA

2 Corinthians 11:5-21

5 For I consider that I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles. 6 Even though I am untrained in speech, yet I am not in knowledge. But we have been thoroughly manifested among you in all things. 7 Did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages from them to minister to you. 9 And when I was present with you, and in need, I was a burden to no one, for what I lacked the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied. And in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will keep myself. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one shall stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows! 12 But what I do, I will also continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast. 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works. 16 I say again, let no one think me a fool. If otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little 17 What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as it were, foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Seeing that many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast. 19 For you put up with fools gladly, since you yourselves are wise! 20 For you put up with it if one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exalts himself, if one strikes you on the face. 21 To our shame I say that we were too weak for that! But in whatever anyone is bold-I speak foolishly-I am bold also.

Matthew 22:15-22

15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk. 16 And they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth; nor do You care about anyone, for You do not regard the person of men. 17 Tell us, therefore, what do You think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? 18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you test Me, you hypocrites? 19 Show Me the tax money. So they brought Him a denarius. 20 And He said to them, "Whose image and inscription is this?" 2 They said to Him, "Caesar's." And He said to them, "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." 22 When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left Him and went their way.

[graceofromanovs]

Great-grandchildren of Tsar Alexander III.

Grandchildren of Xenia Alexandrovna and Alexander Mikhailovich.  The children of their sons Nikita and Andrei: Nikita Nikitich, Xenia Andreevna with Alexander Nikitich in front, Mikhail Andreevich and Andrei Andreevich. 

[grayghostofthenorth]

Pilot Gromov’s Borzoi Diploma for “Lada” (1941)

“Excerpt from the Judges’ Report” The Borzoi belonged to the pilot and military commander, General of Aviation of the Soviet Union Mikhail Mikhailovich Gromov (1899-1985)