From Revolution to Riviera - Some of the Many Russian Aristocrats now in the South of France. Page from The Sketch reporting on some of the notable members of the Russian nobility who had colonised the French Riviera following the revolution. Portraits featured here include the Grand Duke Kyril (Cyril) and Grand Duchess Kyril (formerly Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh), Grand Duke Michael Michailovitch, Grand Duke Vladimir, Grand Duke Nicolai, Grand Duke Nicolai, Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovitch and Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievitch.