Fictional Grand Dukes of Russia
- A Grand Duke Leonid of Russia appears in the Lucky Luke comic book Le Grand Duc (first published in 1973), by Morris and René Goscinny.
- A Grand Duke Alexei of Russia appears in the Sherlock Holmes short story The Adventure of the Seven Clocks, by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr.
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