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...must to all men, death came, last week, to His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch of Russia, 72. at Cap d'Antibes, French Riviera, where he lay ill of pneumonia (TIME...
...Italy the royal family decreed a fortnight period of mourning to honor Nicholas Nicholaievitch, who was brother-in-law of Queen Elena...
Died. Nicholas Nicholaievitch, 72, Grand Duke of Russia; of protracted pneumonia; at Cap d' Antibes, French Riviera...
...urbanely and genuinely done. "I am of no party," smiled the Grand Duke, and presently charmed his guests by chatting not only of himself and Russia but about the two other Romanov grand dukes who were most in the public eye, last week: 1) The Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies on the Western Front (1914-15) and brother-in-law of Queen Elena of Italy, who lay in a dying condition last week at Nice; and 2) The Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch, grandson-in-law of British Queen Victoria, who continues to proclaim...
...flows in the Prince's veins, though there can be little of it. "The mysterious Colonel Elston," as he is generally termed, because little is known of him. went to Russia in the 17th Century and gained the friendship and confidence of Peter the Great. Later General Felix Nicholaievitch Elston great-grandson of Colonel Elston, married the heiress of the last Count of Sumarokov and received permission from Tsar Nicholas I (1825-1855) to use the name of Sumarokov-Elston. It was their son who married Princess Yusupov, the sole heiress of the fabulously rich and eccentric Prince Nicholas...
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