Russian Nobility. George Mikhailovich, Count Brasov was the son of Grand Duke Michael of the House of Romanov and Natalia Sheremetevsky, through a morganatic relationship. His father was the youngest brother of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia. Since his mother was twice divorced and not of royal blood, the Tsar would not grant permission for his parents to marry, but they did marry in a Serbian Orthodox Church in Vienna on October 16, 1912. At that point, his parents were exiled from Russia and eventually settling in England in September of 1913. The marriage was never officially recognized by the Romanov family. Upon the dawn of World War I in 1914, he and his parents returned to Russia. His father became a general in the Russian army, earning a Cross of St. George. His father was granted permission to legalize him as his son but he was excluded from the order of succession. In September of 1916, his father left the army for health reasons. In March of 1917, Nicholas II abdicated and his father was Tsar for 24 hours. During the February Revolution of 1917, his family was placed under house arrest in September of 1917. In March of 1918, his father was taken away by the Bolsheviks in exile to Siberia. Eventually, with much of an ordeal, he and his governess, Margaret Neame, hid for several weeks at the Danish Embassy in Petrograd. They were provided with false Austrian papers, which allowed them to pose as mother and son who had been trapped and interned in Russia at the outbreak of the war. Following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and Russia withdrawing from World War I, they escaped Russia by train, with returning POWs. Upon reaching Germany, they were given permission, by the Kaiser, to go to Denmark where he and his governess were invited to stay with the Royal Family. Following Tsar Nicholas II along with his wife and five children being executed on July 17, 1918, the remaining family members rallied in an attempt to decide the Russian Tsar. This was done even though the old Russia was a thing of the past and the USSR was governing the country. After the war in England, he was entered in a private school. Unbeknown to him and his mother, his father was executed on June 12, 1918. In 1927 he and his mother relocated to Paris for financial reasons. He continued his private boarding schooling at École des Roches in Normandy. He received an inheritance from his grandmother. After finishing final exams, he and a friend were celebrating by driving from Paris to Cannes, when his sports car skidded off the road hitting a tree. His friend was pronounced dead at the scene and he died the next morning in the hospital. He was the last male-line descendant of Alexander III of Russia.