Vem daterade Matilda Ksjesinskaja?

Matilda Ksjesinskaja (polska Matylda Krzesińska), född 19 augusti 1872 i Ligovo, Kejsardömet Ryssland, död 6 december 1971 i Paris, Frankrike, var en rysk ballerina och koreograf. Ksjesinskaja utnämndes 1895 till prima ballerina assoluta.

Hon hade goda kontakter med tsarfamiljen och hade uppmärksammade kärleksaffärer med storfurstarna Nikolaj (senare tsar Nikolaj II) och Sergej Michailovitj. Efter ryska revolutionen flyttade hon till Paris och gifte sig med Andrej Vladimirovitj 1921. I Paris undervisade hon i balett, Tatiana Rjabusjinskaja var en av hennes elever.

Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович; 7 October 1869 – 18 July 1918) was the fifth son and sixth child of Grand Duke Michael Nikolaievich of Russia and a first cousin of Alexander III of Russia.

He was born and raised in the Caucasus, where his father was viceroy. In 1881 the family moved to Saint Petersburg. He became a close friend of the then Tsarevich Nicholas. They grew apart upon Nicholas II's marriage and accession to the throne. Grand Duke Sergei remained a bachelor living at his father's palace in the imperial capital. He had a long affair with the famous ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska, who had previously been the mistress of Nicholas II. She was also later involved with Grand Duke Andrei Vladimorovich. Sergei recognized Mathilde's son as his own and remained their protector until his death.

Following family tradition, Grand Duke Sergei pursued a military career. He served as General Inspector of the Artillery with the rank of Adjutant General. During World War I he was chief of the artillery department, a position he was forced to resign amid controversy. He was then appointed Field Inspector General of Artillery at Stavka. After the fall of the monarchy, he remained in the former Imperial capital keeping a low profile. With the ascension of the Bolshevists to power, he was sent to internal Russian exile.

He was murdered by the Bolsheviks along with several other Romanov relatives and his personal secretary at Alapayevsk on 18 July 1918, one day after the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his immediate family at Yekaterinburg.

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Nikolaj II, försvenskat Nikolaus II, född som Nikolaj Aleksandrovitj Romanov (ryska: Николай Александрович Романов, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Romanov) 18 maj (enl. N.S.; 6 maj enl. G.S.) 1868 på Tsarskoje Selo i Sankt Petersburg, död 17 juli 1918 (mördad) i Jekaterinburg, var Rysslands tsar 1894–1917.

Nikolaj II tillhörde det ryska kejserliga huset Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov och var äldste son till Alexander III av Ryssland och Dagmar av Danmark. Han hade fem syskon: Aleksander Aleksandrovitj (1869–1870), Georg Aleksandrovitj (1871–1899), Michail Aleksandrovitj (1878–1918), Xenia Alexandrovna (1875–1960) och Olga Alexandrovna (1882–1960).

Nikolaj II var Rysslands siste tsar. Han tvingades abdikera vid februarirevolutionen i mars 1917 och han avrättades tillsammans med sin familj i juli 1918 av bolsjevikerna ett halvår efter att de tagit makten i huvudstaden genom oktoberrevolutionen 1917.