32 or .38 caliber. George Armstrong Custer with Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia after the Duke’s 1872 buffalo hunt. The Duke has his new Smith & Wesson No. 3 in the holster. Wiki commons ...

While it was long thought that the colors were selected to honor Russian Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich Romanoff’s 1872 ...

Rasputin was supposedly able to stop Alexei’s bleeding and he quickly ... Youssupov (Czar Nicholas’ niece’s husband) and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich (Nicholas’ cousin) in December 1916.

If her childhood was Lutheran, the religious culture of her adolescence was distinctively Anglican. In 1884 Elizabeth married Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the fifth son of Tsar Alexander II of ...

The Grand Duke replied: 'Do come ... Let our legacy be a lighter one for Alexei! He has a strong will and mind of his own. Don't let things slip through your fingers and make him have to build ...

Grand Duke Jean abdicated in favour of his son Henri in 2000 Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg has died at the age of 98, his son Henri has said in a statement. He had recently been admitted to ...

Oh, the grand old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men, He marched them up to the top of the hill And he marched them down again. And when they were up they were up, And when they were down they ...

Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich painstakingly collected the coinage of the House of Romanov, Russia’s second imperial dynasty, which ruled from 1613 to 1917. The history of this powerful family can be ...

Tuesday marked a historic day for the Luxembourg royal family as Grand Duke Henri appointed his son, Prince Guillaume, as Lieutenant-Representative. As lieutenant representative, he will assume ...

Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg on Tuesday appointed his son, Crown Prince Guillaume, as "lieutenant-représentant," or regent, thus initiating the transfer of duties and ultimately his succession ...

"I've known for a long time that this moment was coming," Prince Guillaume said of the Oct. 8 ceremony marking the next step in his accession to the throne Harald Tittel/picture alliance via Getty ...