Canine Graves - HAMPSTEAD HEATH - 2012

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The gravestones of two dogs owned by the Grand Duke Michael of Russia, who leased Kenwood from 1909 to 1917, can be seen in North Wood. (Kenwood Estate)
Although he renounced the throne after Czar Nicholas abdicated, he remained a marked man for the Bolshevic Revolutionaries  after he had gone back to Russia.
In June 1918 he was abducted and shot and his body burnt very probably by the secret police.

The gravestones can be seen on the right of the path which goes through North Wood by entering via Kenwood House's East Lodge (from Hampstead Lane) and taking a sharp right turn through the Prospect Hill portion of The Wood.