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Grand Duke Vladimir Of RussiaHis Imperial Highness Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovitch of Russia, Vladimir Kirillovitch Romanov (Влади́мир Кири́ллович Рома́нов) (August 30 (N.S.), 1917 - 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. His Highness Prince Vladimir Cyrillovitch was born in 1917, at Borgo, Finland, the only son of HIH Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch and HIH Grand Duchess Viktoria Feodorovna ne HRH Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. His paternal grandparents were Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovitch of Russia and Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. His maternal grandparents were Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia. In 1924, when his father proclaimed himself Emperor, he also granted Vladimir the title of Czarevitch and Grand Duke with the style of Imperial Highness. In 1938, his father died, making him the Head of the Imperial Family of Russia. He married HIllH Princess Leonida Georgievna Bagration-Moukhransky on August 13, 1948. For the first seventy-four years of his life, he never set foot in Russia. He visited the Soviet Union in 1991 to mark the seventy-fourth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. After his death in Miami, Florida on April 21, 1992, his daughter Maria declared that she was the Head of the Imperial Family of Russia. Though she has support in this position, because the rules concerning succession are complicated (under Russia's semi-Salic succession, for Maria to succeed all eligible males must be dead or otherwise ineligible, and the status of some people ruled ineligible because of "unequal marriages" depends on who is considered arbiter of "equality"), that support is not universal. Titles from birth to death Here is a list of Grand Duke Vladimir's titles from birth to death in chronological order: - His Highness Prince Vladimir Cyrillovitch of Russia
- His Imperial Highness Czarevitch Vladimir Cyrillovitch of Russia
- His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovitch of Russia
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