I present Grand Duke Michael

Gore Juss

Was he homosexual?

so is that a colorized B&W, obviously?

He looks like Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman.

Very handsome man.

He's DataLounge's second favorite Russian noble, after Prince Felix Youssoupoff.

R2, No. He contracted a morganatic and illicit marriage (she was a divorcee with whom he carried on an affair while she was still married), earning him a life in exile. The outbreak of World War One prompted his brother to lift the ban on him, and he returned to Russia. He was murdered along with his valet outside Perm around the time his brother and his brother's family were murdered.

His wife Natalia Brasova ​survived the Revolution. She died in genteel poverty in the early 1950s. Their son was killed in an auto accident, when he was 21.

One gay Romanov was the Grand Duke Serge, uncle of Nicholas and Michael. He was also married to Elizabeth, Alexandra's sister. Serge had a penchant for Guardsman (Those tight elk-skin breeches, no doubt, excited him). The marriage was childless, and the rumor was that he was abusive to his wife. He was killed in an assassination bombing during the 1905 Revolution.

Was Grand Duke Michael next in the line of succession, after the doomed Alexei? He had to have been, he was Nicholas's only brother to survive into the 20th century.

That's one thing I never understood about the Romanovs, they clung to the idea of making poor, sick, undoubtedly infertile Alexei the next Tsar, and totally failed to bring the next round of heirs into the political life and social attention of the nation. That was something Nicholas could have and should have done, without telling anyone why, of course! But he should have integrated his brother or cousins who were next in line into his court and made sure the ruling classes knew who was next after Alexei. Instead, his policy was Alexei or nothing, and look how that turned out.

I hear he enjoyed sitting on poles.

I guarantee he was hung.

Call me when you present his hole, OP.

I simply adore his mayonnaise.

He had a hot ass, but couldn't last forever.

R6 I'm more partial to Prince Alexander Konstantinovich Gorchakov (1904).