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Grand Duke George Alexandrovich (1887–1888)

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Ilyinskoye Estate near Moscow. 1902.

Princess Alice, Princess Louise, and Prince George of Battenberg, with Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich.

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Tsesarevich Nicholas, George Alexandrovich, Xenia Alexandrovna, Alexander and Sergei Mikhailovich, and the sisters Alexandra and Sophia Vorontsova-Dashkova circa 1889-1890.

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Little Tatiana hug uncle Ernie❤️ 1899

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Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine with his two sons, Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus (left) and Prince Ludwig (right), in Rosenhöhe Park, summer 1916

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Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich with A Christmas Tree 1910s.

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Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, as Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, and Grand Duke George Alexandrovich with their tutor, Mr. Charles Heath, circa 1884.

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Grand Duke George Alexandrovich in Abastumani 1897-1899

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Guadalupe, the owner of this account passed away 11/5/24. Thanks to all the people she interacted with here. Russian history was one of her many loves.

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I’m so sorry for your loss. She was a beautiful soul, and her memory will always remain with us.🤍

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16 November 1937

On this day 86 years ago, 6 members of the Hesse and by Rhine family were killed after their plane crashed in Belgium. The victims were the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, Georg Donatus, his pregnant wife, the Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, Cecilie, her fetus, his mother, Dowager Grand Duchess Eleanor, and his two sons, Princes Ludwig and Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine.

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Today is the 118th birthday of Georg Donatus.

he was the son of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich. Georg married Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, in 1931. They had three children: Ludwig, Alexander, and Johanna.

Georg Donatus and his family tragically died in an airplane crash in Belgium on November 16, 1937, while en route to London for the wedding of his brother, Prince Ludwig. The crash claimed the lives of Georg Donatus, Cecilie, their two young sons, and Cecilie’s unborn child.

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Misha in Gatchina, May 1897.

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Princess Johanna of Hesse and by Rhine with her late mother, Grand Duchess Cecilie of Hesse and by Rhine, and later with her adoptive mother., Grand Duchess Margaret of Hesse and by Rhine. 1936-1938.

My dear Johanna was the only survivor of her family's accident, died just two years later.

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Grand Duke George Alexandrovich with his brother-in-law Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, late 1890s.

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Mikhail, Xenia and Olga with their cousin Maria Georgievna in Gorvitsy near Gatchina, June 2, 1904.

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Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich with A Christmas Tree 1910s.

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Ernst Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, his wife Victoria, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine and their daughter Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, his sisters and their children, Princess Victoria of Battenberg, her two daughters Princesses Alice and Louise, her son Prince George of Battenberg,Princess Irene of Prussia, her sons Princes Waldemar and Sigismund of Prussia, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodrovna. Wolfsgarten 1896.