Star-Crossed and Lost First Love:

Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich the Younger and Sofia Burenina

by Penny Wilson

Nikolasha. For those with an interest in Russian history, the nickname conjures the image of a very tall, slim, and ramrod straight Grand Duke; a grey-haired WWI general with a Van Dyke beard and an Astrakhan hat, who, at a height of almost six-and-a-half feet, towered over all except some of his Romanov cousins. Born Grand Duke Nicholas …