Vladimir Kirillowitsch Romanov

Vladimir Kirillowitsch Romanow (2nd from right) with his parents and sister Kira

Wladimir Kirillowitsch Romanow ( Russian Владимир Кириллович , scientific transliteration Vladimir Kirillovič ; born  August 30, 1917 near Porvoo ; † April 21, 1992 in Miami , Florida) was a great-grandson of Russian Tsar Alexander II , great-nephew of Tsar Alexander III. and great-grandson of the British Queen Victoria .

Life

Vladimir was born in Finland shortly after the monarchy was overthrown in the February Revolution in 1917 , to which Lenin had also retired at the same time . He first grew up in Coburg , the home of his mother Victoria Melita von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha , and later in Paris. Since 1924 in monarchist circles according to the old Russian rules for designating the heir to the throne as grand duke and "heir to the throne", he took over the position of head of the former tsarist house Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp after the death of his father Kirill Wladimirowitsch in 1938 .

On August 13, 1948, Vladimir Leonida married Georgievna Bagration-Moukhransky (1914-2010), a descendant of the Bagratids , a dynasty of former Georgian kings. Her daughter is Maria Vladimirovna Romanova , who was born on December 23, 1953.

On June 5, 1991, Vladimir was proclaimed "Tsar Vladimir I" by the Centrist Bloc of the Left and the Russian National Party . In 1992 he died suddenly of a heart attack and was the first Romanov to be buried with all honors in the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg after the end of the tsarist rule .

Commonwealth instead of breakdown

Talking about not just since the attempted coup in Moscow in 1991, Vladimir believed he had a panacea for the collapse of the Soviet Union : a constitutional monarchy . The previous union republics were supposed to be linked , à la Commonwealth, only by the personal union of the head of state and a free economic bloc. Gorbachev or Yeltsin could then have become "representatives" of the Tsar.

See also: Commonwealth of Independent States (Commonwealth of Independent States)

Inheritance dispute

Georg Friedrich von Prussia , the grandson of Vladimir's brother-in-law Louis Ferdinand , almost became a joint heir of the Hohenzollern and Romanovs. But after Vladimir's death, Orthodox nationalists proclaimed Georgi Mikhailovich Romanov of Prussia, Vladimir's grandson, born in 1981 (son of his daughter and Franz Wilhelm of Prussia ), as heir to the Russian throne.

literature

• New Germany: Tsar inheritance "Vladimir I." Berlin, September 3, 1991
• The Focus: Kings without a land. 10/1997

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Kirillowitsch Romanow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Newspaper article about Vladimir Kirillowitsch Romanow in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .