Informal Photographs from the Albums of Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich

Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich had married Natalie Brasova on October 16^th 1912 in Vienna without his brother Nicholas II’s permission.  With her daughter from a previous marriage and their one-year-old son George, they lived in various places in Europe and in the fall of September 1913 rented Knebworth near London. When war started in 1914 they were allowed to return to the grand duke’s house in Gatchina near St. Petersburg.

Photographs (below) of Grand Duke Mikhail’s House in Gatchina, Grand Duke Dmitry and Gatchina Palace

 

 

Photographs (below) of the family at Knebworth and on vacation

 

 

Photograph (below) of the Church in Vienna where the couple were married