Claim: Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia spent his early childhood in Georgia, while his father was the Governor-General of Russian provinces of Transcaucasia (a geographical region in the vicinity of the southern Caucasus Mountains on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia); then when he was seven years old, his father was named as President of the Council of the Empire.
Evidence: Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia spent his early childhood in Georgia while his father was the Governor-General of Russian provinces of Transcaucasia. Transcaucasia (Russian: Закавказье, romanized: Zakavkazye; Armenian: Անդրկովկաս, romanized: Andrkovkas), also known as the South Caucasus (Azerbaijani: Cənubi Qafqaz, Ҹәнуби Гафгаз; Georgian: სამხრეთ კავკასია, romanized: Samkhret K'avk'asia; Russian: Южный Кавказ, romanized: Yuzhnyy Kavkaz), is a geographical region in the vicinity of the southern Caucasus Mountains on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Alexei was seven years old in 1882 when his father was named as President of the Council of the Empire and the whole family moved to St. Petersburg.