bobh Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 Interesting photo I found in the biography of S. V. Rachmaninoff written by Robert Walker (perhaps Robert Matthew-Walker??), assuming that this is THE GDM (SVR is sitting third from the left): Does anybody know if he was also a coin collector? A lot of famous musicians were (Jascha Heifetz, for example). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgorS Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 Wrong Grand Duke. Our guy is Georgii Mikhailovich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-kuna Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 Does anybody know if he was also a coin collector? A lot of famous musicians were (Jascha Heifetz, for example). No, he was not. Well, just reviewed his profile, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich (1878-1918) was this kind of guy, who could do the following: ...Each morning, before commencing work, the emperor (Alexander III, note by one-kuna) would go to a window and stand leaning out looking at the lawn. The f ollowing morning after his dousing, Michael lay in wait in the room above his father, and when Alexander III leaned out of the window, he was greeted with a bucket of water from above. None od Alexander's others children would have dared such an indignity, but Michael got away wiyht it..." from a book The Grand Dukes by D.Chavchavadze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-kuna Posted June 29, 2010 Report Share Posted June 29, 2010 Interesting photo I found in the biography of S. V. Rachmaninoff written by Robert Walker (perhaps Robert Matthew-Walker??), assuming that this is THE GDM (SVR is sitting third from the left): bobh, grand duke is sitiing third from the right, next to him his beatiful Natasha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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