Sergei Mikhailovich (1869-07/18/1918), Grand Duke, fifth son led. book Mikhail Nikolaevich. Since 1899, with the rank of colonel, he was an aide-de-camp, commander of the 2nd His Imperial Highness General-Fieldmaster of the Life Guards Horse Artillery Brigade battery and an honorary member of the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy. He was villainously murdered by Jewish Bolsheviks in Alapaevsk.

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Sergei Mikhailovich, Grand Duke (September 25, 1869 – July 18, 1918). Grandson of Nicholas I, son led. book Mikhail Nikolaevich. Graduated from the Mikhailovsky Artillery School. Since 1904, inspector of artillery, since July 2, 1905, inspector general of artillery. General of Artillery (1914). In 1915-1917, field inspector general of artillery under the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. In March 1918 he was exiled to Vyatka, a month later he was transferred to Yekaterinburg. From May 1918 he was kept in Alapaevsk, where he was killed along with several other members of the imperial family.

Materials from the bibliographic dictionary were used in the book: Y.V. Glinka, Eleven years in the State Duma. 1906-1917. Diary and memories. M., 2001.

Member of the First World War

Sergei Mikhailovich Romanov (25.9.1869, Tiflis - 18.7.1918, Alapaevsk, Verkhoturye district, Perm province), Grand Duke, Russian. artillery general (04/06/1914), adjutant general (1908). The eldest son of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich. He received his education at Mikhailovsky Art. school (1889). He began his service in the Life Guards Horse Artillery Brigade. From November 13, 1903, commander of the 2nd Division of the Guards Horse Artillery Brigade, from March 10, 1904, at the disposal of the Feldzeichmeister General. From June 16, 1904, commander of the Guards Horse Artillery Brigade. 7.9.1904 appointed inspector of all artillery. With the creation of the positions of inspector general in 1905, S. became inspector general of artillery on July 2, 1905. Did a lot to improve Russian. artillery, the initiator of strengthening (and actually creating) in Russian. army of rapid-fire artillery. Achieved a dramatic improvement in the training of gunners. At the same time, in January-June 1915, the chairman of the created Special Administrative Commission for Art. parts. From January 5, 1916, field inspector general of artillery under the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. After the February Revolution, he was removed from office and on March 22, 1917, along with other members of the Imperial Family, was dismissed from service at the request of his uniform. In the spring of 1918 he was exiled to Vyatka, and then to Yekaterinburg. Executed along with Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, princes John, Konstantin and Igor Konstantinovich and Prince V.P. Paley. Everyone was thrown into the mine alive, only S. resisted and was shot, his corpse was already thrown into the mine. The body was taken by whites to China.

Material used from the book: Zalessky K.A. Who was who in the First World War. Biographical encyclopedic dictionary. M., 2003

Eyewitness testimony

The fifth son, Sergei Mikhailovich, was an artillery officer and headed the Artillery Supply Directorate. The result of this was a significant shortage of guns and shells during the war. He spent the entire war at the front and was almost not subject to the harmful influence of the ideas of his brother Nicholas. At the critical moments of 1917, he could do nothing to help the Tsar, because, as far as I know, His Majesty would not turn to him for advice.

Quoted from the book: Mosolov A.A. At the court of the last king. Memoirs of the head of the palace chancellery. 1900-1916. M., 2006.

A relative's view

My fourth brother, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich (he was three years younger than me), delighted my father’s heart by joining the artillery and studying artillery science in detail. As Inspector General of Artillery, he did everything in his power to, in anticipation of the inevitable war with Germany, influence the reluctant Russian government on the issue of rearmament of our artillery. Nobody listened to his advice, but later they pointed to him in opposition circles of the State Duma as “the person responsible for our unpreparedness.”

This habit of throwing a knife in the back surprised Sergei Mikhailovich little. As a pupil of Colonel Helmersen, my father’s former adjutant, Brother Sergei chose as his life motto the words “so much the worse” (“tant pis”), which was a favorite saying of this bilious descendant of the Baltic barons. When Helmersen didn’t like something, he shrugged his shoulders and said “so much the worse” with the air of a man who, essentially speaking, was indifferent to everything. Teacher and pupil maintained this position for a long time, and it took quite a long time to teach my brother not to take offense at everything - a manner that gave him the nickname "Monsieur Tant Pis." Like me, he was a close friend of Emperor Nicholas II for more than forty years, and one should only regret that he was not able to convey a share of Colonel Helmersen’s critical attitude to his distinguished friend from Tsarskoye Selo. Sergei Mikhailovich never married, although his faithful friend, a famous Russian ballerina, managed to surround him with an atmosphere of family life.

Alexander Mikhailovich[Romanov]. Memoirs of the Grand Duke. Moscow, 2001. (Book 1, Chapter IX The Royal Family).

Death

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich, as well as Princes John, Konstantin and Igor Konstantinovich and with them Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley, the son of Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich from his marriage to Princess Olga Valeryanovna Paley, were exiled to Vyatka in the early spring of 1918 , and then to Yekaterinburg. In the summer of 1918, they were detained for a short time in the city of Alapaevsk, Verkhoturye district, Perm province. On the night of July 18, they were all taken from Alapaevsk along the road to Sinyachikha. There were old mines near this road. They were thrown into one of them alive, except for Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich, who was killed by a bullet in the head, and his body was also thrown into the mine. Then the mine was bombarded with grenades. An investigative examination later established that the death of the prisoners occurred mainly from the hemorrhages they received when being thrown into the mine.

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RATOV Sergey Mikhailovich

present fam. Muratov;

Actor, director, theater critic, teacher. On stage since the 1890s. Roles: Akim ("The Power of Darkness" by Tolstoy), Rasplyuev ("The Wedding of Krechinsky" by Sukhovo-Kobylin), Robinson ("The Dowry" by Ostrovsky), Lemm ("The Noble Nest" by Turgenev), etc. Employee of the magazine "Theater and Art".

“He published large and voluminous studies on the “physiology of the actor” (something like that), where he glorified the talent and divine gift of the actor.

The most remarkable thing - what made him unique - was that this favorite of the muses was a hunchback. He served in theaters, playing leading roles, and wore his hump like someone wears a lion's head. He only played the hunchbacked Caliban in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and told me:

- This is the role I don’t like.

About two years before the revolution, he once came to me and pestered me, one might say, with a knife to my throat, asking me to come to a meeting of the “Beautiful Life Society” that he had founded, of which he was the chairman.

“This is the most important thing now,” he explained. - Everyone lives ugly. That’s why it’s ugly in the theater. But life needs to be beautiful. After all, how do they walk these days? They slouch. Or they count crows... But it should be beautiful - like this...

And trying to straighten his hump, he showed how people should walk beautifully. In this desire of Ratov for beauty there was an evil, hunchbacked paradox of his unsuccessful life. He was created with the whole disposition of his soul for an artistic life - free and passionate; and he had a hump on his shoulders. Not an allegorical, symbolic hump, which often burdens artistic natures, but a real, physical one.

He died in the Obukhov hospital, forgotten and abandoned by everyone. Two or three actors saw off his ashes, and a good half of the current actors may not even know Ratov’s name.

And I remembered how one day he came to the editorial office of “Theater and Art” with a small manuscript wrapped in a tube and looked around mysteriously for a long time until all the “outsiders” had left the room. Then he came close and with the same solemnity with which he announced the establishment of the “Beautiful Life Society”, said:

– Here (he slammed the tube) I said everything about modern theater. In one word. Printed it.

– What word did you type with?

He chuckled like a little devil and unfolded the manuscript. On the first sheet was written in calligraphy: “Kaliberda.”

- Caliberda?

- Caliberda. You see, Kaliberda. It is both “nonsense” and incomprehensible. From the director's notes.

And he began to rub his hands smugly.

I turned the page and read: “We are rehearsing a new play, “Wooden Birds.” The idea of the play is deep and simple. The performers are tied around the throat with a thin string, which, due to lighting effects, is not visible on stage, and I hold the ends of the string, and according to a conventional sign, I pull, standing behind the scenes. The main thing is that you need to express your inner monologue to the public, and that each visitor receives the number of a hanger on which he can hang himself with his ticket number. For I am making a breach in the wall of opportunity. “Caliberda,” I repeat with hope, “caliberda!”

- What? How did I seal them? It's over! Caliberda!

And Ratov looked at me with eyes full of vengeful faith and passionate anger. His hump jutted out majestically, and he was all about desire, impulse and the will to fight" ( A. Kugel. Leaves from a tree).

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) - the fifth of six sons of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich and Olga Fedorovna, grandson of Nicholas I; adjutant general (1908), artillery general (1914), field artillery inspector general under the Supreme Commander-in-Chief (1916-1917), member of the State Defense Council (1905-1908).

Biography

In 1890-1891, together with his brother, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, he sailed on the family yacht "Tamara" from Sevastopol to the Indian Ocean to Batavia and to India, to Bombay - the journey was described by Gustav Radde in the two-volume book "23,000 miles on a yacht" Tamara" (1892-1893).

He made efforts to, in anticipation of a war with Germany, influence the government on the issue of rearmament of Russian artillery; his efforts in this matter were unsuccessful. Count A. A. Ignatiev, who was a military agent in France during the First World War, in his memoirs “Fifty Years in Service,” directly pointed out the incompetence of Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich in matters of artillery and his “inclination” to certain suppliers. He was a close friend of Emperor Nicholas II for many years and was at Headquarters until the last days of the Russian Empire.

Family

Sergei Mikhailovich was never married. He avoided taking part in social celebrations and was known in high circles as a reserved and silent person. He was easy to deal with ordinary people and accessible to everyone.

For many years he cohabited with the famous ballerina Kshesinskaya. On June 18, 1902, her son Vladimir was born, who, according to the Highest Decree of October 15, 1911, received the surname “Krasinsky” (according to family tradition, the Krzezinskys were descended from the Counts Krasinsky), the patronymic “ Sergeevich"and hereditary nobility. When, after the revolution, Kshesinskaya married Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich, he adopted her son, who became Vladimir Andreevich- and in her memoirs, written after World War II, Kshesinskaya claims that the child was Andrei’s, and Sergei nobly “took the blame” upon himself.

Achievement list

11/08/1898 - 03/10/1904 - commander of the 2nd E.I.V. Feldzeichmeister General of the Guards Battery. horse artillery brigade
03/10/1904 - 06/16/1904 - was at the disposal of E.I.V. Feldzeichmeister General
06/16/1904 - 08/07/1904 - commander of the Guards. horse art brigades
09/07/1904 - 06/02/1905 - inspector of all artillery
06/02/1905 - 01/05/1916 - Inspector General of Artillery
01/05/1916 - 1917 - field general inspector of artillery under the Supreme Commander-in-Chief

Military ranks and ranks

Entered service (09/25/1885)
Second Lieutenant of the Guard (Art. 09/25/1888)
Aide-de-camp to His Majesty (Vys. Ave. 11/26/1888)
Lieutenant of the Guard for distinction (Article 30.08.1892)
Staff Captain of the Guard for Distinction (Article 05/14/1896)
Captain of the Guard for Distinction (Art. 5.04.1898)
Colonel of the Guard (Art. 04/18/1899)
Major General with enrollment in His Majesty's Retinue (Vys. Ave. 03/10/1904)
Lieutenant General (Vys. Ave. 04/13/1908)
Adjutant General to His Imperial Majesty (Vys. Ave. 04/13/1908)
General of Artillery (Art. 04/06/1914)

Patronage

Chief of the 153rd Baku Infantry Regiment (Vys. Ave. 09/25/1869)
Chief of the 3rd Vladivostok Fortress Artillery Regiment (Vys. Ave. 09/7/1909)

Awards

Order of St. Anne 1st class. (1869)
Order of St. Stanislaus 1st class. (1869)
Order of St. Vladimir 4th class. (12/17/1894)
Medal "In memory of the reign of Emperor Alexander III" (1896)
Order of St. Vladimir 3rd class. (01/25/1901)
Highest Gratitude (1904)
Order of St. Vladimir 2nd class. (1911)

Foreign

Mecklenburg-Schwerin Order of the Wendish Crown 1st class.
Mecklenburg-Schwerin Order of the Vulture (English)Russian 4 tbsp.
Order of the Württemberg Crown [ ]
Order of Merit of Duke Peter-Friedrich-Ludwig with chain
Grand Cross of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen (1898)
Bulgarian Order "St. Alexander" 1st class. (20.08.1898)
Grand Cross of the French Legion of Honor (06/20/1911)

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Vel. Book Sergius Mikhailovich Romanov and Feodor Remez

Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich was born on September 25, 1869 in Borjomi, Tiflis province, and was the grandson of Tsar Nicholas I. His father is Vel. Book Mikhail Nikolaevich is known as a major military figure and an equally capable administrator. For twenty-two years he held the dangerous and responsible post of governor of the Caucasus. He managed not only to end the seemingly endless war with the North Caucasian highlanders, but also to create a strong bastion of the Russian Empire in the Caucasus.

The father wanted his children to be brought up in a military spirit, strict discipline and a sense of duty. The upbringing of Sergei Mikhailovich and his brothers was similar to military service in a regiment. They slept on narrow iron beds with the thinnest mattresses laid on wooden boards. They got up at 6 o’clock in the morning, and “whoever dared to sleep for another 5 minutes was punished in the most severe way.” Breakfast consisted of tea, bread and butter. Everything else was strictly prohibited, so as not to accustom the Grand Dukes to luxury.

Education was taken very seriously, the curriculum, divided into an eight-year period of study, consisted of lessons on the Law of God, the history of the Orthodox Church, the comparative history of other faiths, Russian grammar and literature, the history of Russia, Europe, America and Asia, geography, mathematics, languages and music. In addition, the Princes were taught how to use firearms, horse riding, fencing and bayonet attacks. The question “Who should I be?” the Grand Dukes did not exist. The choice of career lay between cavalry, artillery and navy. Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich graduated from the artillery school. According to brother Alexander: “ he gladdened his father’s heart by going into the artillery and studying artillery science in detail.”

Since 1905 Vel. Book Sergei Mikhailovich holds the post of artillery inspector general. On the eve of World War I, returning from a trip to Austria, he reported to the government about the feverish work of military factories in the Central European powers. As Inspector General of Artillery, he did everything in his power to influence the government on the issue of rearmament of our artillery, in anticipation of the inevitable war with Germany. General A.S. Lukomsky noted: “Russian field artillery owes a lot to the Grand Duke. Thanks to his knowledge and the enormous energy with which he trained personnel, constantly visiting and monitoring, our field artillery in the Japanese and European wars was at its proper height. During World War I, the Grand Duke was at the front and at Headquarters, where he kept himself in moral shape. I understood and envied him. In a society of people obsessed with shed blood, growing cabbage and potatoes served as a distraction for my brother Sergei, giving some meaning to life.” (From the book of memoirs of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich).

Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich was not distinguished by his spectacular appearance; many found him ugly, as the wife of his brother George once directly told him. “This is my charm,” the Grand Duke retorted, not at all embarrassed. But he was distinguished by an excellent sense of humor and truly aristocratic ease of use. Like the brothers Georgy and Alexander, Sergei Mikhailovich was also interested in numismatics and collected a significant collection of coins.

In 1887, as a young man, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich, together with his father, Chairman of the State Council of the Russian Empire, traveled to the Urals. In Yekaterinburg his father Vel. Book Mikhail Nikolaevich took upon himself the patronage of the Siberian-Ural Scientific and Industrial Exhibition, and in 1981 accepted the duties of the August patronage of the UOLE (Ural Society of Natural History Lovers). After the death of his father, a hall in his memory was opened at the UOLE Museum and a prize was established for success in the study of the Ural region. It is no coincidence that in a conversation with the security officer Kabanov, assigned to accompany the Romanov Princes in May 1918 from Yekaterinburg to Alapaevsk, Vel. Book Sergei Mikhailovich said that he knew this city, since even “as a junior artillery officer he visited all the Ural factories on foot. I was also in Alapaevsk.”

Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich bore the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh, a mourner and prayer book of the Russian land. From childhood, he loved work and activities, and while traveling around Russia with his father, he became acquainted with the needs of ordinary people and loved his Russian people with all his soul. Standing in a high official position, he always received everyone who came to him, listened carefully, and did everything possible for the petitioners. He was especially distinguished among the commanders for his simplicity and sincere affectionate manner. Access to the Grand Duke was open to everyone, from a simple peasant to a high dignitary. He was a faithful, sincere and devoted servant of the Tsar and the Motherland until the end of his days. Along the way to exile in the Urals, in Alapaevsk, at stations during stops people came to him asking for help.

After the October Revolution of 1917 Vel. Book Sergei Mikhailovich limited himself to assurances of loyalty to the new system and completely withdrew from politics. He was single and lived in Petrograd until, according to the Bolshevik decree of March 26, 1918 on the census of the Romanovs, he was exiled to Vyatka with the Princes of Imperial Blood siblings: John, Konstantin, Igor, sons of the Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich. As stated in the document issued by the Petrograd Cheka “in order to prevent and suppress political crimes.” In April, the Romanov princes were expelled from Vyatka to Yekaterinburg, and on May 20 they arrived in Alapaevsk. With Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich, the manager of his affairs, Fyodor Semenovich Remez (1878-1918), left Petrograd for exile. Fyodor Semenovich still had a family in Petrograd; this person close to the Prince voluntarily went with him to suffering and death, thereby fulfilling the covenant of Jesus Christ. “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” (John 13:15).

Deprived of their native shelter, slandered, they were persecuted in their native land. The last earthly refuge for them was the Floor School, on the outskirts of Alapaevsk, where they were under the constant control of Bolshevik commissars and Red Army soldiers. Here the Grand Duke took upon himself negotiations with the commissars regarding the tightening of the prison regime and the transfer of prisoners to soldiers' rations from June 21, which followed the murder of Vel. Book Mikhail Alexandrovich in Perm. The Grand Duke protested against such violence, but his protests were not answered. The prince sent a telegram to the chairman of the Regional Council in Yekaterinburg, where he wrote the following: “ Without knowing any guilt, we petition for the removal of the prison regime from us. For myself and my relatives who are in Alapaevsk. Sergei Mikhailovich Romanov.”The prisoners tried to brighten up their situation by working in the school area, cleaning it, planting vegetables and flowers, and, according to the Bolsheviks, they arranged a cozy corner for walking. The princes gathered every day for prayer in the room of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna.

On the night of July 18, 1918, under the pretext of moving to a “quieter and safer” place, the Romanov Princes were secretly taken to the abandoned Nizhne-Selimskaya mine in the morning, staging a staged attack, allegedly with the aim of liberating the Princes by a detachment of White Guards. An atrocity was committed near the mine; Alapaevsk prisoners were thrown alive into a damp, dark pit 60 meters deep. Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich was killed by a revolver shot, this was shown by a medical examination. According to an eyewitness, he was the only one who resisted the killers and was shot at the edge of the mine. When all the victims were in the mine, the security officers began throwing grenades there in order to completely hide the traces of the crime. The body of Fyodor Semenovich Remez was damaged by the grenade explosion; it was severely burned from the explosion. The remaining martyrs died in terrible suffering from thirst, hunger and injuries received when falling onto ledges of varying depths.

With the arrival of the White units in Alapaevsk, the Alapaevsk investigative commission, having discovered the location of the mine, brought the bodies to the surface. On October 18, the bodies were in the Catherine Church, where litias, memorial services and an all-night vigil were served, and on October 19, the bodies of the Alapaevsk martyrs, after the Funeral Liturgy and funeral service in the Holy Trinity Cathedral, were temporarily buried in a crypt on the south side of the altar of the Holy Trinity Cathedral. As Abbot Seraphim wrote, there were so many people that people could not fit in the churches, but stood, cried and prayed right on the street. This is how the city residents said goodbye. During the retreat of A.V. Kolchak’s White Army, the bodies were taken to Siberia, then to China and buried in April 1920 in a crypt at the Church of the Holy Righteous Seraphim of Sarov at the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Beijing. The bodies of the martyrs Vel. Book Elisaveta Feodorovna and the nun Varvara were escorted further to the Holy Land to Jerusalem. In 1981, the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad canonized the Alapaevsk martyrs as New Martyrs of Russia. In 1992 in Russia Vel. Book Elizabeth and nun Varvara.

Romanov.

Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich (September 25 (October 7), 1869, Borzhom estate, Tiflis province - July 5 (18), 1918, near Alapaevsk, Perm province) - the fifth of the six sons of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich and Olga Fedorovna, grandson of Nicholas I; adjutant general (1908), artillery general (1914), field artillery inspector general under the Supreme Commander-in-Chief (1916-1917), member of the State Defense Council (1905-1908).

Father - Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich Romanov

Mother - Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna (Cecilia of Baden)

Olga Fedorovna with her son Sergei

Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich

Family of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich

Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich

Tsarevich, Grand Duke Nikolai Alexandrovich, Grand Dukes Alexander and Sergei Mikhailovich, Prince George of Greece in Colombo (Ceylon), 1891 GA RF. F. 601. Op. 1. D. 1470. L. 3.

Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich

He made efforts to, in anticipation of a war with Germany, influence the government on the issue of rearmament of Russian artillery; his efforts in this matter were unsuccessful. Count A. A. Ignatiev, who was a military agent in France during the First World War, in his memoirs “Fifty Years in Service” directly pointed out the incompetence of Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich in matters of artillery and his “inclination” to certain suppliers. He was a close friend of Emperor Nicholas II for many years and was at Headquarters until the last days of the Russian Empire.

Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich

At the beginning of April 1918, he was expelled by the Bolsheviks from Petrograd to Vyatka, in May 1918 he was transported to Yekaterinburg, and then to Alapaevsk. On the night of July 5 (18), 1918, together with other members of the Romanov dynasty, he was taken out of the city, resisted and was shot. His body, along with the still living Alapaevsk prisoners from the Romanov family, was dumped into one of the abandoned mines of the Nizhnyaya Selimskaya iron mine. When the White Guard troops entered the city and the bodies of those executed were raised to the surface, a small gold medallion with a portrait of Matilda Kshesinskaya and the inscription “Malya” was clutched in Sergei Mikhailovich’s hand.

On June 8, 2009, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office posthumously rehabilitated Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich.

Family

For many years he cohabited with the famous ballerina Kshesinskaya. On June 18, 1902, her son Vladimir was born, who, according to the Highest Decree of October 15, 1911, received the surname “Krasinsky” (according to family tradition, the Krzezinskys were descended from the Counts Krasinsky), the patronymic “Sergeevich” and hereditary nobility. When, after the revolution, Kshesinskaya married Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich, he adopted her son, who became Vladimir Andreevich - and in her memoirs, written after World War II, Kshesinskaya claims that the child was from Andrei, and Sergei nobly “took the blame” to myself.