Photograph of Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich. He is sitting on a large rock facing partly right, with his left foot resting on a smaller rock in front of him. He is wearing a Russian Cossack uniform, a fur hat and the Order of St George at his collar. A sword is resting against his legs and he is holding a whip in his right hand. There is a painted backdrop behind.

Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich was the youngest child of Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia. This photograph is from an album compiled by Captain Oliver Montagu which contains photographs, newspaper cuttings, ephemera and a diary account by Montagu of the visit to Russia by the Prince and Princess of Wales, later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, in 1874. Albert Edward and Alexandra travelled to Russia to attend the wedding of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (and later Duke of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha) to Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna, the daughter of Tsar Alexander II. Captain Montagu was a member of the Prince and Princess of Wales's suite.