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Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia
Third son of Alexander III (1871–1899)
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alexandrovich.
Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (9 May [O.S. 27 April] 1871 – 10 July [O.S. 28 June] 1899) was the third son of Emperor Alexander III and Empress Maria of Russia and brother of Emperor Nicholas II.
Childhood
[edit]George was named after his uncle, King George I of Greece.[1] He was brought up in a spartan fashion with his siblings in the English manner. They slept on camp beds, rose at six and usually took cold baths (being occasionally allowed a warm bath in their mother's bathroom). Breakfast usually consisted of porridge and black bread, mutton cutlets or roast beef with peas. Baked potatoes were served for lunch and bread, butter and jam at teatime. George and Nicholas, his brother and later emperor, had a sitting-room, dining room, playroom and bedroom, all simply furnished. The only trace of ostentation was an icon surrounded by pearls and precious stones.[2] Because of his parents' happy marriage he was brought up in an atmosphere of love and security that was missing in many royal households at the time.[2]
On 27 May 1883, Geor
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Cousins Divided: George V And Nicholas II
The first half of the book was absolutely excruciating. There was little detail in there that I hadn't read before in any book on the Romanovs, or in any general biography on British monarchs. It was extraordinarily slow reading and I kept putting it down and not picking it back up because it was boring as hell.
On the other hand, the details about the fate of the extended Romanov family as well as the last of George V's life was fascinating. I raced through that section in less than an hour. I had hardly read anything in there before -- of George V's feelings on not having saved his cousins and their children, on Nicholas's and Alix's extended families' bitterness towards George V, of the full details of the 1999 burial in St. Petersburg. That was wonderful.
Overall: 5/10, since I liked half of the book and hated the other half.