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Jamie H. Cockfield. White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, 1859-1919. Based on material from Russian historical archives, The White Crow is the first full-length English biography of Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich Romanov (1859-1919), and provides considerable insight into the last six decades of Tsarist Russia via the life of the "odd ball" of the Romanov clan.
The Grand Duke was the eldest son of Grand Duke Mikhail Nicholaevich and spent most of his youth in the Caucasus where his father was Viceroy. He received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Berlin and Moscow and won election to the French Academy, one of only two Russians to have done so. As the political situation in Russia worsened, he urged the Tsar to implement reforms, and he even participated in discussions of a palace coup. Exiled to Vologda after the Communist seizure of power, he was later imprisoned by the police and executed in January 1919.
CT (Westport): Praeger Publishers Inc, 2002. 2nd printing. 328 pages. Hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. Used, text near fine. Former owner name elegantly written with a flourish on first page. Sticker glue remnant back cover (about 1½").
