Popular Culture
The Grand Duke's western hunt is alluded to in the film version of Maverick, starring Mel Gibson. In the film, the Duke is hustled, after he has grown bored with hunting animals, into thinking he has killed a Native American.
He is also described by Boris Akunin in his novel The Coronation of the Last Romanov (Коронация, или Последний из Романовых) where he is presented as the character Georgi Aleksandrovich.
The 1973 Lucky Luke comic book Le Grand Duc features a Russian Grand Duke who visits the Wild West.
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