Breast Star of St. Andrew Order of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich of Russia

Silver, gilt, enamel.
Size 53 mm.
Currently in the collection of Hermitage.

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Breast Star of St. Andrew Order of  Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich of Russia.jpg



Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (8 February 1798 [OS 28 January] – 9 September 1849 [OS 28 August]) was a Russian prince, the tenth child and fourth son of Paul I of Russia and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg. He was born in St. Petersburg.

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In St. Petersburg on 19 February 1824, Michael married his first cousin once removed, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg (1807–1873), the daughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg and Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen. Charlotte took the name Elena Pavlovna upon converting to Orthodoxy. They had five daughters, four of whom predeceased them:

Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia (9 March 1825, Moscow – 19 November 1846, Vienna); died unmarried.
Grand Duchess Elizabeta Mikhailovna of Russia (26 May 1826, Moscow – 28 January, 1845 Wiesbaden); married Adolf, Duke of Nassau and died in childbirth.
Grand Duchess Ekaterina Mikhailovna of Russia (28 August 1827 – 12 May 1894), married Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Grand Duchess Alexandra Mikhailovna of Russia (28 January 1831, Moscow – 27 March 1832, Moscow), died in childhood
Grand Duchess Anna Mikhailovna of Russia (27 October 1834, Moscow – 22 March 1836, Saint Petersburg), died in childhood
Mikhailovsky Palace was built by Carlo Rossi for Grand Duke Michael between 1819–1825. The Palace now holds the Russian Museum.

Michael died in Warsaw, aged 51.

Michael's great-great-great-grandson Duke Georg Borwin of Mecklenburg is the current head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.​
 
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