Michael "Mischa" Alexandrovich Romanov Grand DukeAge: 401878–1918
- Name
- Michael "Mischa" Alexandrovich Romanov Grand Duke
- Given names
- Michael "Mischa" Alexandrovich
- Surname
- Romanov
- Name suffix
- Grand Duke
- Nickname
- Mischa
| Birth | 1878 33 31 |
| Australian History | 1878 Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 12 months) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | 1880 (Age 2)
paternal grandmother -
Marie … Of Hesse - Darmstadt
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| Australian History | 1880 (Age 2) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | 13 March 1881 (Age 3)
paternal grandfather -
Alexander II Nicholoevich Romanov Tsar Of Russia
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| Birth of a sister | 1 June 1882 (Age 4)
younger sister -
Olga Alexandrovna Romanov Grand Duchess
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| Australian History | 1882 (Age 4) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 5) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 9) Note: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series. First direct Inter-colonial passenger trains begin running between Adelaide and Melbourne. |
| Australian History | 1889 (Age 11) Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration. |
| Australian History | 1890 (Age 12) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 13) Note: A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution. Note: The first attempt at a federal constitution is drafted. Note: The Convention adopts the constitution, although it has no legal status Note: A severe depression hits Australia |
| Australian History | 1892 (Age 14) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 15) Note: The Corowa Conference (the 'people's convention') calls on the colonial parliaments to pass enabling acts, allowing the election of delegates to a new constitutional convention aimed at drafting a proposal and putting it to a referendum in each colony. |
| Marriage of a sister | Xenia Romanov Grand Duchess - View family 1894 (Age 16)
brother-in-law -
Alexander Mikhailovich (Sandro) Romanov Grand Duke
elder sister -
Xenia Romanov Grand Duchess
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| Death of a father | 1 November 1894 (Age 16) Livadia, Crimea, Near Yalta, Russia |
| Marriage of a brother | Nicholas II Alexandrovich Romanov Tsar Of Russia - View family 26 November 1894 (Age 16) Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
elder brother -
Nicholas II Alexandrovich Romanov Tsar Of Russia
sister-in-law -
Alexandra Fedorovna "Alix" … Tsarina
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| Australian History | 1894 (Age 16) Note: South Australia becomes the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office. |
| Australian History | 1895 (Age 17) Note: The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals. Note: Waltzing Matilda is first sung in public, in Winton, Queensland Note: Banjo Paterson publishes The Man from Snowy River |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | 1896 (Age 18)
daughter -
Nadejda … Countess
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| Australian History | 1896 (Age 18) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 19) Note: In two sessions, the Second National Australasian Convention meets (with representatives from all colonies except Queensland present). They agree to adopt a constitution based on the 1891 draft, and then revise and amend it later that year. Note: Catherine Helen Spence became the first female political candidate for political office, standing for election as a representative for South Australia. |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | 29 September 1898 (Age 20) Bernstorff, Germany
maternal grandmother -
Princess Louise … Of Hesse-Cassel
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| Australian History | 1898 (Age 20) Note: The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people. Note: After much public debate, the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian referendums are successful; the New South Wales referendum narrowly fails. Later New South Wales votes 'yes' in a second referendum, and Queensland and Western Australia also vote to join. |
| Death of a brother | July 1899 (Age 21) Abbas Tuman, Caucasus, Russia
elder brother -
George Alexandrovich Romanov Grand Duke
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| Australian History | 1899 (Age 21) Note: The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney. Note: The Australian Labor Party holds office for a few days in Queensland, becoming the first trade union party to do so anywhere in the world. Note: The first contingents from various Australian colonies are sent to South Africa to participate in the Second Boer War. |
| Australian History | 1900 (Age 22) Note: Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution. Note: The constitution is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, and is given royal assent |
| Marriage of a sister | Olga Alexandrovna Romanov Grand Duchess - View family July 1901 (Age 23)
brother-in-law -
Prince Peter … Of Oldenburg
younger sister -
Olga Alexandrovna Romanov Grand Duchess
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| Australian History | 1901 (Age 23) Note: (01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General Note: The first parliament met in Parliament House, Melbourne Note: Immigration Restriction act was introduced- The White Australian Policy Note: The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time |
| Australian History | 1902 (Age 24) Note: The Franchise Act guarantees women the right to vote in federal elections (by this stage, most states had already done this). However, it excludes most non-European ethnic groups, including Aboriginal people, unless already registered to vote on State roles. Note: King Edward VII approved the design of the Australian flag. Note: Breaker Morant is executed for having shot Boers who had surrendered |
| Australian History | 1903 (Age 25) Note: The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice. Note: The Defence Act gives the federal government full control over the Australian Army Note: Alfred Deakin elected Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1904 (Age 26) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | 29 January 1906 (Age 28) Amalienborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
maternal grandfather -
Christian IX … King Of Denmark
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| Australian History | 1906 (Age 28) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 30) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Australian History | 1909 (Age 31) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Birth of a son #2 | 1910 (Age 32)
son -
George Romanov
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| Australian History | 1910 (Age 32) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 33) Note: The Royal Australian Navy is founded Note: The Northern Territory comes under Commonwealth control, being split off from South Australia Note: The first national census is conducted. Note: Australian Capital Territory proclaimed. |
| Marriage | Natalia Sheremetevskaya - View family July 1912 (Age 34) Vienna, Austria |
| Australian History | 1912 (Age 34) Note: Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time Note: Walter Burley Griffin wins a design competition for the new city of Canberra |
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 35) Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'. |
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 35) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 36) Note: Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's. |
| Australian History | 1915 (Age 37) Note: (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. Note: Jervis Bay Territory comprising 6,677 hectares surrendered and becomes part of the Australia Capital Territory. Note: Surfing is first introduced to Australia Note: Billy Hughes became Prime Minister |
| Marriage of a sister | Olga Alexandrovna Romanov Grand Duchess - View family 1916 (Age 38) Russia
brother-in-law -
Nicholas Koulikovsky Colonel
younger sister -
Olga Alexandrovna Romanov Grand Duchess
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| Australian History | 1916 (Age 38) Note: Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' Note: Australia suffers heavy casualties in the Western Front Battle of the Somme. Note: The Returned Sailors� and Soldiers� Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the Returned and Services League of Australia is founded Note: The Labor government under Billy Hughes splits over conscription. First referendum on conscription is rejected |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | 1917 (Age 39)
granddaughter -
Tatiana Elizabeth Mountbatten Lady
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| Australian History | 1917 (Age 39) Note: Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. Note: Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade launches last cavalry charge in modern warfare to capture Beersheba from the Ottoman Turks. |
| Australian History | 1918 (Age 40) Note: (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens Note: Australian troops spearhead 8 August offensive against Hindenberg Line - the 'black day of the German Army'. Note: On 12 August, Australian commander General Sir John Monash is knighted in the field of battle by King George V Note: First World War ends - 60,000 Australians dead. Note: The Darwin Rebellion takes place, with 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth. |
| Death | 10 July 1918 (Age 40) Perm, Russia |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Alexander III Alexandrovich Romanov Tsar Of Russia
Birth 1845 27 21 Death 1 November 1894 (Age 49) Livadia, Crimea, Near Yalta, Russia Loading...
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2 years mother |
Tsarina Dagmar "Marie" … Of Denmark
Birth 1847 28 29 Death October 1928 (Age 81) Copenhagen, Denmark Loading...
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Marriage: 1866 |
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2 years #1 elder brother |
Nicholas II Alexandrovich Romanov Tsar Of Russia
Birth 18 May 1868 23 21 Tsarskoye Selo, Pushkin, Russia Death 16 July 1918 (Age 50) Ekaterinburg, Russia Loading...
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7 months #2 elder brother |
Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov
Birth 1869 24 22 Death 1870 (Age 12 months) Loading...
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2 years #3 elder brother |
George Alexandrovich Romanov Grand Duke
Birth 1871 26 24 Death July 1899 (Age 28) Abbas Tuman, Caucasus, Russia Loading...
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4 years #4 elder sister |
Xenia Romanov Grand Duchess
Birth 1875 30 28 Death 20 April 1960 (Age 85) London, England Loading...
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3 years #5 himself |
Michael "Mischa" Alexandrovich Romanov Grand Duke
Birth 1878 33 31 Death 10 July 1918 (Age 40) Perm, Russia Loading...
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4 years #6 younger sister |
Olga Alexandrovna Romanov Grand Duchess
Birth 1 June 1882 37 35 Death 24 November 1960 (Age 78) East Toronto, Ontario, Canada Loading...
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| Family with Natalia Sheremetevskaya - View family |
| himself |
Michael "Mischa" Alexandrovich Romanov Grand Duke
Birth 1878 33 31 Death 10 July 1918 (Age 40) Perm, Russia Loading...
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2 years wife |
Natalia Sheremetevskaya
Birth 1880 Death 1952 (Age 72) Loading...
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Marriage: July 1912 — Vienna, Austria |
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-17 years #1 daughter |
Nadejda … Countess
Birth 1896 18 16 Death 1963 (Age 67) Loading...
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14 years #2 son |
George Romanov
Birth 1910 32 30 Death 1931 (Age 21) Loading...
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Michael "Mischa" Alexandrovich Romanov Grand Duke has 42 first cousins recorded
Father's family (14)
Parents Vladimir Romanov Grand Duke + Marie Pavlovna Grand Duchess
Parents Alfred Ernest Albert … Prince + Marie Alexandrovna … Grand Duchess
Parents Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich Romanov + Princess Alexandra … Of Greece
Parents Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich Romanov + Olga Karnovich Princess
Mother's family (28)
Parents Frederick VIII … King Of Denmark + Louise … Of Sweden
Parents Edward VII Wettin King Of England + Princess Alexandra … Of Denmark
Parents George Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg + Princess Olga Constantinovna …
Parents Duke Ernest Augustus Hanover Of Cumberland + Princess Thyra … Of Denmark
Extra information
Internal reference
I6319
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