Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia
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20 January 1914 Marble Palace, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire |
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| Died | 18 June 1973 (aged 59) London, England, United Kingdom |
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Lady Mary Lygon Emilia de Gosztonyi Valli Knust |
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| House | Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov | ||||
| Father | Prince John Constantinovich of Russia | ||||
| Mother | Princess Helen of Serbia | ||||
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| Vsevolod Ivanovich Romanov |
Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia (20 January 1914 (N.S.) = 7 January 1914 (O.S.) – 18 June 1973) was a great-great-grandson of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and a nephew of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia. He was the last male member of the Romanov family born in Imperial Russia. He was a distant cousin and godson of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
During the revolution his father and two uncles were imprisoned and later murdered along with other Romanov relatives in July 1918. In October 1918 his grandmother fled with the four-year-old Prince Vsevolod to Sweden where he was able be reunited with his mother, Princess Helen of Serbia. After a time in France and Belgrade they eventually settled in England. Prince Vsevolod was educated at Eton and Oxford. He spent the rest of his life in exile in Great Britain. In 1939 he married Lady Mary Lygon of Madresfield Court (It has been said that Madresfield was the inspiration for Brideshead Castle in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited and that the Flytes were based on the Lygon family). They were divorced in 1956. Prince Vsevolod married twice more, but had no children from any of his marriages. At his death, the male line of the Constantinovich branch of the Romanov family died out.
Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich was the eldest child of Prince John Constantinovich of Russia and Princess Helen of Serbia. He was born on 20 January 1914 at the Marble Palace in St Petersburg. In a manifesto issued the next day, Tsar Nicholas II decreed Vsevelod to be a Highness and a Prince of the Imperial Blood. On 25 January the Emperor, along with his wife Alexandra and his mother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, attended the Prince’s christening in service conducted in the chapel of the Marble Palace by the personal confessor of the imperial couple. Along with the boy’s grandmother grand duchess Elizabeth Mavriekievna, Nicholas II was appointed one of his godparents. He spent his early years living with his parents in a suite of rooms in the northern wing of Pavlovsk During the First World War, Vsevelod's father, Prince Ivan fought in the army and was decorated as a war hero, he was at the front when the Russian Revolution of 1917 started. Vsevelod's mother served as a nurse during the war, while Vsevelod and his sister Catherine were left in St. Petersburg under the care of their paternal grandmother.
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