Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia (20 January 1914 – 18 June 1973) was a 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. He was a distant cousin and godson of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
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 (It has been said that Madresfield was the inspiration for Brideshead Castle in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited and that the Flytes were based on the Lygon family). They were divorced in 1956. Prince Vsevolod married twice more, but had no children from any of his marriages. At his death, the male line of the Constatinovich branch of the Romanov family died out.
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