I
In the Bible and the
The captain of the heavenly hosts, he was invoked by early Christian armies against the heathen. In Christian tradition he is thought to escort the soul into the presence of God at the time of death. In art he is depicted as a warrior, sword in hand, in triumph over a dragon. His feast day, known in England as Michaelmas, is September 29. See also Mīkāīl .
II
born Oct. 25, 1921, Sinaia, Rom.
King of Romania.
After his father, the future king Carol II , had been excluded from the royal succession (1926), Michael was proclaimed king under a three-member regency. Carol reclaimed the throne in 1930, and Michael was reduced to crown prince. With Carol's abdication in 1940, Michael again became king but was in effect a prisoner of the military dictator Ion Antonescu . In 1944 he helped lead the coup that overthrew the military regime and severed Romania's ties with the Axis powers. He strongly opposed the communists' subsequent rise to power, but was forced to abdicate in 1947. He went into exile in Switzerland and became an executive with a U.S. brokerage firm. In 1997 his Romanian citizenship was restored; he subsequently visited the country and sought the return of property holdings that were confiscated.
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or Michael Romanov Russian Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov
born July 22, 1596
died July 23, 1645, Moscow
Tsar of Russia (1613–45) and founder of the Romanov dynasty .
A young nobleman elected as tsar after the chaotic Time of Troubles , he allowed his mother's relatives to direct the government early in his reign. They restored order to Russia and made peace with Sweden (1617) and Poland (1618). In 1619 his father, released from captivity in Poland, returned to Russia and became coruler. Michael's father dominated the government, increasing contact with western Europe and strengthening central authority and serfdom. After his death in 1633, Michael's maternal relatives once again held sway.
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Michael Romanov
Bennett Michael
Michael Bennett Difiglia
Bishop John Michael
Coetzee John Michael
Cohan George Michael
Collins Michael
Curley James Michael
Curtiz Michael
DeBakey Michael Ellis
Douglas Michael
Dummett Sir Michael Anthony Eardley
Eisner Michael Dammann
Faraday Michael
Faulhaber Michael von
Foot Michael
Graves Michael
Gross Michael
Harnett William Michael
Healy Timothy Michael
Jackson Michael Joseph
Johnson Michael Duane
Jordan Michael Jeffrey
Kidd Michael
Michael Leigh
Manley Michael Norman
Mansfield Michael Joseph
Michael Cerularius
Michael VIII Palaeologus
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Milken Michael R.
Michael Igor Peschkowsky
Michael O'Donovan
Ondaatje Philip Michael
Stephen Michael Ovett
Pacher Michael
Powell Michael Latham
Redgrave Sir Michael Scudamore
Stephen Michael Reich
Richter Conrad Michael
Michael Royko
Schwab Charles Michael
Michael Sinnott
Servetus Michael
Spence A. Michael
Thonet Michael
Tippett Sir Michael Kemp
Michael Gerald Tyson
Ventris Michael George Francis
Marion Michael Morrison