the Russian branch of the House of Beauharnais. At the turn of the twentieth century, when still married to Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, George was considered as a possible successor to the childless Alexander I of Serbia. Alexander was overthrown and murdered in a military coup, and succeeded by Peter I of Serbia. George inherited a large collection of paintings, sculptures, and other works of art from his father, who had brought them with him when he moved from Munich to St. Petersburg to marry Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia. He was buried in tomb #29 of the Grand Ducal Mausoleum in the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg. Legacy George was the only one of his brothers to make a legitimate dynastic union. As both of his sons failed to produce legitimate issue, the Bavarian title Duke of Leuchtenberg went extinct in 1974. George appears as a character in The White Night of St. Petersburg, written by a relative Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark. Honours He received the following decorations and awards: Russian orders and decorations Knight of St. Andrew, 1852 Knight of St. Alexander Nevsky, 1852 Knight of the White Eagle, 1852 Knight of St. Anna, 1st Class, 1852 Knight of St. Stanislaus, 1st Class, 23 June 1865 Knight of St. Vladimir, 4th Class, 1897; 3rd Class, 1908 Foreign orders and decorations Knight of the Annunciation, 1902 (Kingdom of Italy) Knight of the Seraphim, 20 June 1876 (Sweden-Norway) Grand Cross of the Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig, with Golden Crown, 14 February 1879 (Grand Duchy of Oldenburg) Knight of St. Hubert, 1879 (Kingdom of Bavaria) Grand Cross of the Württemberg Crown, 1872 (Kingdom of Württemberg) Ancestry References |- 1852 births 1912 deaths George 6 Russian people of German descent Russian people of French descent Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Russia) Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class Burials at Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg