Michael Alexander Obolensky

Michael Alexander Obolensky

Prince Michael Alexander Obolensky, was a pretender descendant of the Romanov family of Russia.[1]

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  1. ^ "Poor but Proud Kin of Czar Revealed as Midwestern Youth With Accent.". New York Times. December 12, 1923. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40C12FB3F5D15738DDDAB0994DA415B838EF1D3. Retrieved 2008-08-16. ""Prince Michael Alexander Obolensky," scion of the Romanoff family of Russia, is no more. New York once admired him as the broken down noble, offspring of a morganatic marriage of Alexander III., who was willing to groom horses to rehabilitate his fortunes, Wichita, Kan., feted him as a real, live nobleman who did not scorn to take a job as floorwalker to maintain himself respectably." 



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