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I think when I gave him that name, I was thinking of the Russian Grand Duke nicknamed Sandro (real name Aleksandr), but misremembered it. He was Tsar Nicholas II's brother-in-law and one of his advisors. Since he grew up in the Caucasus, and Sandro is a common Georgian nickname for Aleksander, that probably explains the nickname.

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