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Article: White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, 1859-1919.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2004
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White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, 1859-1919. By Jamie H. Cockfield. (Westport, CT and London: Praeger Publishers, 2002. Pp. xii, 302. $69.95.)
Considered by fellow members of the Romanov family as an "oddball," the Grand Duke Nicholas was an intellectual of merit who made many valuable contributions to the study of Russian history in the reign of Tsar Alexander I (1801-25). He published his works in French, including diplomatic documents of Tsar Alexander I and Napoleon; a life of Tsar Alexander's close friend, Paul Stroganov, in two volumes; and a life of Tsar Alexander I. The grand duke was also a scientist of note ...