Talk:Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia

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Old talk[edit]

Wait, he was cured of tobercuosis in 1942? A year after dying? Seems a bit odd to me.

"the somewhat fascist Young Russian movement around Alexander Kazem-Bek, who was later found out to have been a Soviet agent provocateur — a thoroughly dishonourable affair." - this is actually not a fact, but rather a theory and not a very plausible one. Alexander Kazem-Bek was hardly a Soviet agent, though he did eventually move to and died in the Soviet Union. He moved back there probably just like many others in those times to get back to their motherland under a false hope that things will get better simply because its Russia. The organization he founded was called "Impertsy", and was indeed "somewhat fascist".

More old talk[edit]

The phrase in the first sentence "one of the few Romanovs to escape execution by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution" is inaccurate. Before the Russian Revolution there were 53 Romanovs living in Russia; 17 were executed and 35 escaped. Nicholas Constantovich, a grandson of Nicholas I had been exiled to Central Asia for stealing his mother's diamond necklace. He was killed in 1918 in Tashkent but the circumstances are unknown.

References: http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ImperialRussian/royalty/russia/survivor.html and "The Flight of the Romanovs" by John Curtis Perry and Constantine Pleshakov. --Susan/sef127 01:53, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The inventor of doubling in backgammon?[edit]

Gammonlife has tentatively credited Dmitri with introducing the idea of doubling (though not necessarily the doubling cube) to New York backgammon players, quoting a contemporaneous news story.

"Also, they say the innovation of "doubling" was important. This, according to one story, was thought of by the Grand Duke Dmitri, who lives in Paris where backgammon is called "tric trac", and who has been playing it for years." The New Yorker magazine, Talk of the Town section, pages 12 and 13, September 6, 1930.

--Vrmlguy (talk) 14:29, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is a very importantant contibution to one of the worlds oldest and most popular games. I think this should get added to the main page. Info of him as inventor of doubling also mention in 1931 Vanity Fair http://www.bgonline.org/forums/webbbs_config.pl?read=28703 --meditatingbear —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.136.238.91 (talk) 00:33, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Original research and bias[edit]

Just cleaned up several parts that smacked of original research, or at least opinionated, un-neutral POV. I also changed the "Dmitri" to "Pavlovich" in as many places as I could to be more encyclopedic. There's still some work to do here (especially with the details of Rasputin's murder still being muddy), but I haven't got time to rewrite it all now. --Snowgrouse (talk) 20:34, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]