1890 - during a visit to Russia of King Victor Emmanuel III Knight of the Order of the Elephant (Denmark) - 19 July 1909 Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer (Kingdom of Greece) Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order (Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine) - 10 March 1886 Grand Cross of the House Order of the Wendish Crown (Mecklenburg) Grand Cross of the Order of Danilo I (Principality of Montenegro) Grand Cross of the House and Merit Order of Peter Frederick Louis, with Golden Crown (Grand Duchy of Oldenburg) - 7 December 1856 Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle (Kingdom of Prussia) - 23 March 1877 Pour le Mérite (military) (Kingdom of Prussia) - 22 March 1879 Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of Takovo (Kingdom of Serbia) Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Romania (Kingdom of Romania) Grand Cross of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen (Austria-Hungary) - 1896 Grand Cross of the Legion d'Honneur (France) - January 1897 Grand Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown (Kingdom of Württemberg) - 1882 Ancestry In popular culture Grand Duke Nicholas was portrayed in the 1971 film Nicholas and Alexandra by Harry Andrews, and in the 1974 television drama Fall of Eagles by John Phillips . References Sources Robinson, Paul. "A Study of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich as Supreme Commander of the Russian Army, 1914–1915," Historian (Fall 2013) 75#3 pp 475–498 online Fromkin, David. A Peace To End All Peace Avon Books, New York, 1990 John Curtis Perry and Constantine Pleshakov. The Flight of the Romanovs, A Family Saga Basic Books, New York, 1999 "Encyclopædia Britannica", Vol. 16, pp. 420–421, Chicago, 1958 Figes, Orlando. A People's Tragedy, The Russian Revolution 1891–1924, Pilmico, London, 1997 Robinson, Paul. "A Study of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich as Supreme Commander of the Russian Army, 1914–1915." Historian 75.3 (2013): 475–498. online</ref> External links 1856 births 1929 deaths Royalty from Saint Petersburg People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd Commanders-in-chief of the Russian Army House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov Russian grand dukes Military Engineering-Technical University alumni Russian military personnel of World War I Russian military leaders Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Italy Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Second Degree Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Stephen