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  Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovich of Russia, Vladimir Kirillovich Romanov (Влад́имир Кир́иллович Ром́анов) (August 30 (N.S. April 21, 1992) was the Head of the Imperial Family of Russia and Titular Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias from 1938 to his death.
Some controversy therefore arises as to whether Vladimir's marriage to Leonida was equal or morganatic, and therefore whether his claim to the Imperial throne passed to his daughter Maria or out of his branch of the family upon his death.
Grand Duke Vladimir died of an apparent heart attack while addressing a gathering of Spanish speaking bankers and investors in Miami, Florida in the United States on April 21, 1992.
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 Vladimir Kirillovich, Prince/Grand Duke of Russia (1917- )
Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1784-1844)
Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine (1753-1830)
Friedrich Ludwig, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1778-1819)
gsteinbe.intrasun.tcnj.edu /royalty/ahnenreihe/Vladimir.htm   (249 words)

  
 Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch of Russia, Kirill Vladimirovitch Romanov (Кири́лл Влади́мирович Рома́нов) (October 12 (N.S. October 12, 1938) was the Head of the Imperial Family of Russia and Titular Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias from 1924 until his death.
Duke Alfred was a son of HM Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and HRH Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince Consort.
In 1924, Grand Duke Cyril proclaimed himself Emperor in exile in Paris: by the laws of the Russian Empire he was the prime claimant after the execution of Tsar's family by Bolsheviks.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyril_Romanov   (391 words)

  
 PWHCE Who's Who of Russia: Grand Duke Vladimir Cyril Romanov Biography
In August 1924 Grand Duke Cyril, as the senior surviving Romanov imperial claimant, proclaimed himself Tsar Cyril I and elevated Vladimir to the rank of Tsarevich.
Vladimir assumed his father's claim to the imperial throne as "Grand Duke of Russia" on the latter's death in 1938.
In contrast to other Russian émigré movements, Vladimir was able to ward off KGB infiltration attempts due to the movement's close-knit network of descendents of families that had fled Russia in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution and the Communists' victory in the Russian Civil War in 1920.
www.pwhce.org /rus/vladimircyrilromanov.html   (612 words)

  
 Titular Emperor of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Titular Emperor (Empress) of Russia is a claimant to be the heir to the Emperors of Russia since the abolition of the monarchy in 1917.
Grand Duke Cyril ("Cyril, Emperor of Russia") (1924-1938)
Grand Duke Vladimir ("Vladimir, Emperor of Russia") (1938-1992)
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 RUSSIA
Grand Dukes of Moscow and Emperors of Russia
The Varangians/Russes got to Russia through their technology, the sailing ships that could actually take them to Greenland; but they came to rule the area through forms of large scale political organization that may have been rudimentary compared to Francia and Romania, but were beyond anything seen previously east of Moravia.
Russia would then always be hindered by autocratic government that alternatively smothered dissent and innovation and then, alarmed at the backwardness of the country, attempted to impose top-down reforms and development -- which then would be resisted by a national conservatism that the government in its phase of being threatened by change would have loved.
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 The Grand Dukes of Russia
Grand Duke Constantine remarried (morganatically) at Warsaw 24 May 1820, to Joanna, created Princess Lowicka with the qualification of Serene Highness by Emperor Alexander I 1820 (born at Warsaw 29 September 1799; died at Tsarskoe Selo 29 November 1831), daughter of Count Antoni Grudna Grudzinscy, by his first wife Marianna Dorpowska.
Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich died in London 26 April 1929 and is buried at Hampstead Cemetary.
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich was murdered by the Bolsheviks at Perm sometime between 18 and 28 July 1918.
www.angelfire.com /pa/ImperialRussian/royalty/russia/dukes.html   (1116 words)

  
 Russian Royal Family
Grand Duke Nicholas was engaged to Princess Dagmar of Denmark but died after an attack of bronchitis (some sources quote meningitis) a couple of months before the intended marriage.
Mathilde was one of the greatest ballerina of her generation and mistress of three Russian Grand Dukes including the future Emperor Nicholas II of all the Russias.
Olga and Grand Duke Paul had a son Vladimir who was born in 1897 whilst Olga was still married to her first husband.
www.btinternet.com /~allan_raymond/Russian_Royal_Family.htm   (1879 words)

  
 22ND GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Victoria Melita of EDINBURGH was born in 1876 in England - dtr of Alfred Duke of Edinburgh.
She was married to Grand Duke Ernest Louis of HESSE (son of Louis IV of HESSE and Alice Maud Mary of ENGLAND Duchess of Saxony) in Milan (cousins).
(son of Vladimir ROMANOV and Maria of MECKLENBURG) was born in Russia?
home.att.net /~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d8304.htm   (107 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Vladimir the Great
Grand Duke of Kieff and All Russia, grandson of St. Olga, and the first Russian ruler to embrace Christianity, b.
To this Vladimir replied that he had already examined the doctrines of the Christians, was inclined towards them, and was ready to be baptized.
These acts impressed the people with the helplessness of their gods, and when they were told that they should follow Vladimir's example and become Christians they were willingly baptized, even wading into the river that they might the sooner be reached by the priest for baptism.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15497a.htm   (1197 words)

  
 Vladimir Vladimirovich™   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Vladimir Vladimirovich™ was staying at the small tribune with a pile of texts before him and couple of microphones on the both sides of a tribune.
Vladimir Vladimirovich™ raised his eyes and noticed that the ground around him is covered by scattered pieces of burned wood and rusted pieces of roofing tin.
Vladimir Vladimirovich™ quickly pulled the presidential cellular means of communication with a gold double-headed eagle instead of the keyboard out of his pocket and pressed the only key connecting him to the Chief of Staff.
vladimir.vladimirovich.ru /english   (17518 words)

  
 Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Grand Duke Saint Vladimir Sviatoslawitz KIEV, I ANDREW ...
The story (deriving from the 11th-century monk Jacob) that Vladimir chose the Byzantine riteover the litugies of German Christendom, Dudaism, and Islam because of its transcendent beauty is apparently mythically symbolic of his determination to remain independent of external politicalcontrol, particularly of the Germanic Goths.
Macropaedia, Vol XVI, p40, Russia History of: "...The role of architect of the Kievan state fell to [Svyatoslav's] son Vladimir (Abt 980-10150,who establish- ed the dynastic seniority system of his clan as the political structure by which the scattered territories of Rus were to be ruled.
Vladimir married the sister of the Emperor Basil II, and thereafter, till 1917, Russia, in religion, alphabet, coinage, and art, was a daughter of the Byzantium.
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 23RD GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Grand Duke Vladimir of RUSSIA was born about 1917 in near Borga, Finland.
He was also known as Vladimir Kirillovitch of Russia.
Maria of RUSSIA Grand Duchess was born in 1953.
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 Royal Genealogies Part 6
NOTES: Francis, Duke of Teck was a morganatic scion of the Royal House of Wurttemberg.
The Grand Duke George finally died at 27 of tuberculosis, in the summer of 1899.
The Grand Duke Cyril was an officer in the Russian Imperial Navy and died while in exile.
ftp.cac.psu.edu /~saw/royal/r06.html   (1214 words)

  
 RoyaltyDigest
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 VLADIMIR-VOLHYNSKIY - LoveToKnow Article on VLADIMIR-VOLHYNSKIY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Though not mentioned in the annals before 988, Vladimir was probably in existence in the gth century under the name of Ladomir.
It was finally annexed to Russia after the first division of Poland (1772).
The ruins in and near the town include remains of a church supposed to have been built by Vladimir, grand duke of Kiev, in the loth-nth centuries, and of another built in 1160 by his descendant Mstislav.
www.1911ency.org /V/VL/VLADIMIR_VOLHYNSKIY.htm   (169 words)

  
 VLADIMIR - Online Information article about VLADIMIR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
prince of the principalities of Vladimir, Suzdal and Rostov.
annals before 988, Vladimir was probably in existence in the gth century under the name of Ladomir.
The ruins in and near the town include remains of a church supposed to have been built by Vladimir, grand duke of Kiev, in the loth-11th centuries, and of another built in 116o by his descendant Mstislay.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /VIR_WAT/VLADIMIR.html   (606 words)

  
 The House of Romanov, 1939-1945
Succeeded as head of the dynasty in 1938 on the death of his father, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, self-proclaimed Emperor of All the Russias.
Kseniya Aleksandrovna, Grand Duchess Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Russia (1875-).
Upon the death of his father in 1931, continued the Nikolaievichi tradition of refusal to recognize the Vladimirovichi (Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich and Prince/Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich) as heads of the Russian Imperial House.
gsteinbe.intrasun.tcnj.edu /royalty/houses/romanov.htm   (374 words)

  
 Russian Porcelain Armorial Beaker
The coat of arms of the Prince Odoevsky family, one of the oldest noble families in Russia tracing its roots to Princes of Chernigov (name of the region).
The first Prince of Chernigov Svatoslav was the grand son of Grand Duke Vladimir, who baptized Russia in 988 A.D. The last Prince from the Odoevsky family Vladimir died in 1869.
The coat of arms of the Count Bobrinsky family.
www.romanovrussia.com /ArmB.html   (151 words)

  
 I6529: Vladimir Cyrilovitch Romanov (Grand Duke) (30 AUG 1917 - 1992)
I6529: Vladimir Cyrilovitch Romanov (Grand Duke) (30 AUG 1917 - 1992)
Descendants of Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrilovitch Romanov and Princess Leonide Bagration-Moukhransky
1 Maria Vladimirovna Of Russia = Franz Wilhelm Of Prussia
web.ukonline.co.uk /Members/nigel.battysmith/Database/D0004/I6529.html   (42 words)

  
 Kiev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine and the historical capital of ancient Russia first mentioned in a 9th-century manuscript.
It is situated on the river Dnepr, 850 kilometers from Moscow and has a population of 2,635,000.
Among the places to see are the 11th-century Cathedral of Saint Sophia and the Mikhailovskiy Cathedral; the Kyivo-Pechorskaya Lavra (a monastery of the highest rank); the Orthodox monks' caves; the Mariinskiy Palace; the 18th-century Andreevskaya Church, built by the architect V. Rastrelli; and the monument to Grand Duke Vladimir, who baptized Russia.
www.romtour.com /kiev.htm   (138 words)

  
 News | Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovitch
Kirillovitch (1917-1992) was the heir to the Romanov dynasty in Russia and lived in exile, in France, Germany and Hungary for most of the Second World War.
The Grand Duke worked there under the alias W. Mikhailov, but the file notes that 'Mikhailov apparently did not like hard work, and eventually, according to Sir Alexander, went off to France.' He arrived in St Briac, Normandy, in August 1940, and spent much of the time until his arrest there.
There are typescript copies of some of the Grand Duke's correspondence on the file, and for the post-war period, sketchy details of some of the White Russian activity surrounding him during his time living in Madrid.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /releases/2004/may21/kirillovitch.htm   (319 words)

  
 Six Russian Armorial Silver Forks, St. Petersburg 1869   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Set of six massive Russian armorial silver forks, St. Petersburg, 1869, applied with the coat of arms of the Trepnev family with motto in Russian on the ribbon "PROTECTING AND GUARDING", struck with 84 standard (.875 silver), assayer's initials 'BC' for Vladimir Smirnov, date, city mark and master's initials 'SF' for Samuel Filander.
Russian armorial silver is rarely seen on the market due to the fact that nearly all objects of this type were melted down after the 1917 revolution.
The Dolgoruky family is one of the oldest and most important noble families in the Czarist Russia, tracing its roots to Grand Duke Vladimir who baptized Russia in the 9th century.
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 Vladimir I Grand Duke Of Kiev/Rogneda Princess Of Polotsk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Vladimir I Grand Duke Of Kiev/Rogneda Princess Of Polotsk
Born: 956 at: Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine Married: 977 at: Of, Polotsk, Polotsk, Byelorussia Died: 15 JUL 1015 at: Church Of The Tithes, Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine Father:Svyatoslav I Grand Duke Of Kiev Mother:Malusha Of Lubech Other Spouses:
Name: Yaroslav I Grand Duke Of Kiev Born: 980 at: Of, Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine Married: 1019 at: Of, Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden Died: 1054 at: Russia Spouses: Ingrid Princess Of Sweden
www.longislandgenealogy.com /marshall/fam00315.htm   (119 words)

  
 Catholic Online
Vladimir I, 956-1015, Grandson of St. Olga and illegitimate son of Sviastoslav, grand duke of Kiev, and his mistress, Malushka, he was given Novgorod to rule by his father.
Vladimir returned with an army and captured Novgorod and defeated and slew Yaropolk at Rodno in 980; Vladimir was now sole ruler of Russia, notorious for his barbarism and immorality.
His later years were troubled by rebellions led by the sons of his first marriages, although two sons by Anne, SS Romanus and David became martyrs.
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 Grand Duke Michael of Russia and Countess de Torby 1902 by Lafayette
Grand Duke Michael of Russia and Countess de Torby 1902 by Lafayette
H.I.H. Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovitch of Russia (1861-1929), grandson of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.
Biog: (Grand Duke Michael) Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd ed., Burke's Royal Families of the World, Vol 1, London, 1977, p.
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 The Adelphi Theatre 1806-1900: The 1884-1885 Season
And indeed, the melodrama continued to draw or re-draw audiences.
On the following Thursday, for example, the Duchess of Edinburgh, who had seen In the Ranks the previous February, paid her second visit to the production, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh and also the Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia (Times, 10 October 1884, p.
Such was the popularity of In the Ranks, that it remained on the Adelphi stage without interruption (except for dark nights on Christmas and Ash Wednesday) until 28 March 1885, when the Gattis announced that the play would be performed that evening for the "457th and last time" (Times, 28 March 1885).
www.emich.edu /public/english/adelphi_calendar/hst1884.htm   (898 words)

  
 Queen Victoria's g grandchildren
The descendants include illegitimate, stillborn and adopted (additional details will be shown in the near future).
Stillborn Son (son of Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) and Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse and by Rhine)
Gustaf Adolf "Edmund" of Sweden (Duke of Vasterbotten)
www.btinternet.com /~allan_raymond/QV_ggrandchildren.htm   (156 words)

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