George Mikhailovich, Count Brasov

Georgi Mihailovich, Count Brasov (July 24/August 6 O.S., 1910 – July 22, 1931) Russian prince and member of the Russian Imperial Family.

His parents were Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia and his mistress, Natalia Sergeievna Cheremetevskaya. His father was the third son of Alexander III of Russia and Dagmar of Denmark.

George was born in Udinka, near Moscow. He was named in honor of his late paternal uncle, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia.

At the time of his birth, his father was second in line to become Emperor after George's cousin, Alexei. Alexei was suffered from hemophilia and it was feared would not live long enough to inherit the throne. Under Russian law, as a member of the Imperial Family, his father needed the Emperor's permission to marry. This permission was not granted as his mother was twice divorced and not of royal blood. His parents were later married in a Serbian Orthodox Church in Vienna on October 30, 1912. The family was sent into exile in the England.

At the outbreak of World War I, his father requested permission to return to the Russian Empire to join the army. This request was granted and Grand Duke Michael and his family return. His father would become a general would later earned a cross of St. George, the highest military award. His paternal uncle, Nicholas II of Russia, later created his mother Countess Brasova and he was created Count Brasov, and legitimatized him, although he and his descendents would have no rights to the throne of Imperial Russia. Later Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich, the pretender to the throne, granted him the title of Prince.

In 1917, during the February Revolution, Nicholas II abdicated for himself and his son and nominated Michael to success him. Michael said he would not accept the throne unless the people wished it. However, all of Petrograd's troops had joined the demonstrators, henceforth the Grand Duke refused and the Provisional Government took control of Russia by default. George and his family were first placed under house arrest in Gatchina, and then later his father was exiled to the remote city of Perm. Michael managed to smuggle him and his maternal half-sister out of the country to Denmark to join the family of his maternal grandmother, Dagmar of Denmark. In June of 1918, his father was shot on the outskirts of Perm by the Cheka and his corpse was burned.

He and his mother went into exile in Paris, France were his would live for the rest of his life. He was killed in an automobile accident in Auxerre just two days before his 21st birthday and is buried in Cimetière de Passy in Paris.

Although he had no succession rights due to the morganatic marriage of his parents, George was the last male-line descendent of Alexander III of Russia.