Marriage and Issue
On 16 August 1857, he married Princess Cecily Auguste of Baden (1839–1891), daughter of Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden and Sophie of Sweden. Cecily adopted the name Olga Fedorovna, and had the following children with him:
- Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia (1859–1919).
- Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (1860–1922).
- Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia (1861–1929).
- Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863–1919).
- Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (Sandro) (1866–1933).
- Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia (1869–1918).
- Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia (1875–1895).
He served for a long time (1862–1882) as the Governor General of Caucasia, being seated in Tbilisi, the town which most of his children remembered as the home of their childhood. In the course of his life, four members of his family ruled as Emperors of Russia: his father, Nicholas I; his brother, Alexander II; his nephew, Alexander III; and his grand-nephew, Nicholas II. He served all of them loyally. He died in Cannes, France, on 18 December 1909.
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