Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, in Russian Владимир Александрович / Влади́мирович (22 April 1847 – 17 February 1909) was the Senior Grand Duke of the House of Romanov during the reign of his nephew, Tsar Nicholas II.
He was the third, but second surviving son of Emperor Alexander II (who ascended 1855, when Vladimir was 8 years old, and was assassinated in 1881) and his wife Princess Marie of Hesse.
He was the next brother of Emperor...
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Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, in Russian Владимир Александрович / Влади́мирович (22 April 1847 – 17 February 1909) was the Senior Grand Duke of the House of Romanov during the reign of his nephew, Tsar Nicholas II.
He was the third, but second surviving son of Emperor Alexander II (who ascended 1855, when Vladimir was 8 years old, and was assassinated in 1881) and his wife Princess Marie of Hesse.
He was the next brother of Emperor Alexander III (reigned 1881 – 1894) and the senior uncle of Tsar Nicholas II, who afterwards was murdered in 1918.
Vladimir Alexandrovich married, on 28 August 1874 in Saint Petersburg, Princess Marie Alexandrine Elisabeth Eleonore of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (14 May 1854 – 6 September 1920), daughter of Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Augusta of Reuss-Köstritz. Maria was a great-granddaughter of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, herself a daughter of Emperor Paul I of Russia. Therefore, Vladimir was a second...
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