ROMANOV FAMILY: “UNCLE MIMI” – GRAND DUKE MICHAEL ALEXANDROVICH

ROMANOV FAMILY: “UNCLE MIMI” – GRAND DUKE MICHAEL ALEXANDROVICH

Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich: youngest brother of Tsar Nicholas II and favorite uncle of the Romanov children. His nieces often mentioned him in their diaries, especially during wartime when he was allowed to return to Russia (he lived abroad after his unpopular morganatic marriage to Natalie Wolfert).

From the 1914-15 diaries of Tatiana Romanov:

Saturday, 20 September… Breakfast 4 with Papa, Mama and Uncle Misha… ” ;  “Saturday, 3 January… Had tea with Papa, Mama and Uncle Mimi…”

 

From the book Tatiana Romanov, Daughter of the Last Tsar: Diaries and Letters, 1913–1918

 

From the 1916 diary of Maria Romanov:  

 
“27 January…  Had tea at Grandmama’s with Uncle Mimi … Had dinner with Papa, Uncle Mimi and Mama on the sofa…” 

From the book MARIA and ANASTASIA: The Youngest Romanov Grand Duchesses In Their Own Words: Letters, Diaries, Postcards.

 

From the 1917 diary of Olga Romanov:

“Monday. 9^th January… [We] were preparing for the Romanian ceremony and that made me angry. The ceremony was successful, [I] sat between Papa and Uncle Mimi…”; “Thursday. 12^th January.  … Uncle Mimi had breakfast… “;  “Tuesday. 17^th  January…  Uncle Mimi had dinner…”  “6^th  Febr…  Uncle Mimi had tea. “

 

From the books  Russia’s Last Romanovs: In Their Own Words and The Diary of Olga Romanov: Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution