The Russian Grand Duke Michael seriously was just done.

>[Michael](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Mihail_II.jpg) had shown no interest in politics since rejecting the crown offered him by [Nicholas](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Nicholas_II_by_Boissonnas_%26_Eggler_c1909.jpg) in March 1917. He lived quietly on his estate at [Gatchina](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Gatschina-Schloss_2010_Panorama_Front.jpg), near Petrograd, shunning politics and keeping out of the public eye. How unconcerned he was with political events bay be gathered from the fact that a few days after turning down the throne, he appeared before the astonished officials of the Petrograd Soviet with a request for permission to hunt on his estate. ______________________________ **Source:** Pipes, Richard. "The Murder of the Imperial Family." *The Russian Revolution*. New York: Knopf, 1990. 746. Print. **Original Source Listed:** Simon Liberman, *Building Lenin’s Russia* (Chicago, 1945), 56-57. ______________________________ **Further Reading:** [Михаи́л Александрович (Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Michael_Alexandrovich_of_Russia) [Николай II Алекса́ндрович (Tsar Nicholas II of Russia) / Nicholas the Bloody](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia) [Большой Гатчинский дворец (The Great Gatchina Palace)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatchina_Palace) [Санкт-Петербу́рг (Saint Petersburg) / Петрогра́д (Petrograd) / Ленингра́д (Leningrad)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg) [Петроградский Совет рабочих и солдатских депутатов (Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies) / Петроградский совет (Petrograd Soviet)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrograd_Soviet)