Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia

Kirill Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia. Assumed the title “Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias” in 1924.

Son of Vladimir Alexandrovich, Grand Duke of Russia (1847-1909) and Marie (Maria Pavlovna), Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1854-1920)

Born: Tsarskoye Selo 30. Sep 1876

Christened: Grand Palace Church, Tsarskoye Selo 7. Nov 1876

Godparents:

• Alexander II. Emperor of Russia (paternal grandfather)

• Maria Feodorovna, Tsarevna of Russia (wife of his paternal uncle)

• Marie, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (born Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, his maternal grandfather’s third wife)

• Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (maternal uncle)

Married: Tegernsee, Bavaria 8. Oct 1905 Victoria Melita, Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1876-1936), his first cousin, daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900) and his wife Maria Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess of Russia (1853-1920).

Issue:

• Maria Kirillovna, Grand Duchess of Russia (1907-1951) m. 1925 Karl, 6. Fürst zu Leiningen (1898-1946)

• Kira Kirillovna, Grand Duchess of Russia (1909-1967) m. 1938 Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (1907-1994)

• Vladimir Kirillovich, Grand Duke of Russia (1917-1992) m. 1948 Leonida Georgievna, knyaginya (Princess) Bagration-Mukhransky (1914-2010)

Died: Neuilly, France 12. Oct 1938

Buried: Schloss Rosenau (Rosenau Castle), Coburg, Bavaria; his remains were later transferred to the Grand Ducal Mausoleum of the Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg after the Fall of the Soviet Union.

  

  

Marlene A. Eilers ”Queen Victoria’s Descendants”, Rosvall Royal Books 1997;  Detlev Schwennicke "Europäische Stammtafeln. Neue Folgen", Vol. III/1, 1983, Verlag J. A. Stargaardt