Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia

Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (Russian: Георгий Михайлович) (23 August 1863 – 28 January 1919) was a son of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia and a first cousin of Emperor Alexander III. He was a General in the Russian army in World War I. During the Russian Revolution, he was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks and shot by a firing squad, along with his brother, Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich, and his cousins Grand Dukes Paul Alexandrovich and Dimitri Konstantinovich. Grand Duke George Mikhailovich was born at Bielyi-Kliutsch, near Tiflis on 23 August 1863, the third son and fourth child of the seven children of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia and his wife Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna, born Princess Cecily of...