Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia

Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich
Born(1914-01-20)20 January 1914
Marble Palace, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died18 June 1973(1973-06-18) (aged 59)
London, England
Spouse
(m. 1939; div. 1956)

Emilia de Gosztonyi
Valli Knust
Names
Vsevolod Ivanovich Romanov
HouseHolstein-Gottorp-Romanov
FatherPrince John Constantinovich of Russia
MotherPrincess Helen of Serbia

Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia (Russian: Всеволод Иоаннович Романов; 20 January [O.S. 7 January] 1914 – 18 June 1973) was a male line 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.[1] He was a distant cousin and godson of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, as well as second cousin of both Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent.

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. They were divorced in 1956. Prince Vsevolod married twice more, but had no children from any of his marriages.

  1. ^ King & Wilson, Gilded Prism, p. 122