place_of_birth prince vsevolod ivanovich of russia
Grand Duke ___MASK27___ Finland or the Grand Prince ___MASK27___ Finland was from around 1580 to 1809 a title in use by most Swedish monarchs . Between 1809 and 1917 , it was the official title ___MASK27___ the head ___MASK27___ the autonomous Grand Duchy ___MASK27___ Finland , who was the Emperor ___MASK27___ Russia . The anachronistic female form ___MASK27___ the title in English is usually " Grand Princess ___MASK27___ Finland ". The only women to have used the title were the Swedish Queens regnant Christina and Ulrika Eleonora . A few crown princes ___MASK27___ Sweden also were called " Grand Prince ___MASK27___ Finland ". The ___MASK76___ (" Krymskiy poluostrov ;" , " Kryms ' ky pivostriv "), also known simply as Crimea ( " Krym " " Krym "), is a major land mass on the northern coast ___MASK27___ the Black Sea that is almost completely surrounded by both the Black Sea and the smaller Sea ___MASK27___ Azov to the northeast . The peninsula is located south ___MASK27___ the Ukrainian region ___MASK27___ Kherson and west ___MASK27___ the Russian region ___MASK27___ Kuban . It is connected to Kherson Oblast by the Isthmus ___MASK27___ Perekop and is separated from Kuban by the Strait ___MASK27___ Kerch . The Arabat Spit is located to the northeast , a narrow strip ___MASK27___ land that separates a system ___MASK27___ lagoons named Sivash from the Sea ___MASK27___ Azov . Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky ( December 21 , 1923  May 14 , 2011 ) was a professor at the University ___MASK27___ California , Berkeley and the author ___MASK27___ numerous books on Russian history and European intellectual history . Nicholas I ( ) was the Emperor ___MASK27___ Russia from 1825 until 1855 . He was also the King ___MASK27___ Poland and Grand Duke ___MASK27___ Finland . He is best known as a political conservative whose reign was marked by geographical expansion , repression ___MASK27___ dissent , economic stagnation , poor administrative policies , a corrupt bureaucracy , and frequent wars that culminated in Russia ' s disastrous defeat in the Crimean War ___MASK27___ 1853 - 56 . His biographer Nicholas V . Riasanovsky says that Nicholas displayed determination , singleness ___MASK27___ purpose , and an iron will , along with a powerful sense ___MASK27___ duty and a dedication to very hard work . He saw himself as a soldier  a junior officer totally consumed by spit and polish . A handsome man , he was highly nervous and aggressive . Trained as an engineer , he was a stickler for minute detail . In his public persona , says Riasanovsky , " Nicholas I came to represent autocracy personified : infinitely majestic , determined and powerful , hard as stone , and relentless as fate ." His reign had an ideology called " Official Nationality " that was proclaimed officially in 1833 . It was a reactionary policy based on orthodoxy in religion , autocracy in government , and Russian nationalism . He was the younger brother ___MASK27___ his predecessor , Alexander I . Nicholas inherited his brother ' s throne despite the failed Decembrist revolt against him and went on to become the most reactionary ___MASK27___ all Russian leaders . His aggressive foreign policy involved many expensive wars , having a disastrous effect on the empire ' s finances . The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to ___MASK29___ 1856 in which the ___MASK53___ lost to an ___MASK66___ ___MASK27___ France , Britain , the Ottoman Empire , and Sardinia . The immediate cause involved the rights ___MASK27___ Christian minorities in the Holy Land , which was a part ___MASK27___ the Ottoman Empire . The French promoted the rights ___MASK27___ Roman Catholics , while Russia promoted those ___MASK27___ the Eastern Orthodox Church . The longer - term causes involved the decline ___MASK27___ the Ottoman Empire and the unwillingness ___MASK27___ Britain and France to allow Russia to gain territory and power at Ottoman expense . It has widely been noted that the causes , in one case involving an argument over a key , have never revealed a " greater confusion ___MASK27___ purpose ", yet led to a war noted for its " notoriously incompetent international butchery ." ___MASK62___ , officially the ___MASK41___ ___MASK27___ ___MASK62___ , is a sovereign state in Northern Europe . A peninsula with the Gulf ___MASK27___ ___MASK62___ to the south and the Gulf ___MASK27___ Bothnia to the west , the country has land borders with Sweden to the northwest , Norway to the north , and Russia to the east . Estonia is south ___MASK27___ the country across the Gulf ___MASK27___ ___MASK62___ . ___MASK62___ is a Nordic country situated in the geographical region ___MASK27___ Fennoscandia , which also includes Scandinavia . ___MASK62___ ' s population is 5 . 5 million ( 2014 ), staying roughly on the same level over the past two decades . The majority ___MASK27___ the population is concentrated in the southern region . In terms ___MASK27___ area , it is the eighth largest country in Europe and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union . The Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising took place in Imperial ___MASK17___ on . Russian army officers led about 3 , 000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I ' s assumption ___MASK27___ the throne after his elder brother Constantine removed himself from the line ___MASK27___ succession . Because these events occurred in December , the rebels were called the " Decembrists " (" Dekabristy "). This uprising , which was suppressed by Nicholas I , took place in Peter ' s Square in ___MASK87___ . In 1925 , to mark the centenary ___MASK27___ the event , the square was renamed as Decembrist Square , but in 2008 the name was changed to Senate Square . Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich ___MASK27___ Russia ( 20 January 1914 -- 18 June 1973 ) was a great - great - grandson ___MASK27___ Tsar Nicholas I ___MASK27___ Russia and a nephew ___MASK27___ King Alexander I ___MASK27___ Yugoslavia . He was the last male member ___MASK27___ the Romanov family born in Imperial Russia . He was a distant cousin and godson ___MASK27___ Tsar Nicholas II ___MASK27___ 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 ___MASK27___ 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 ___MASK27___ his life in exile in Great Britain . In 1939 he married Lady Mary Lygon ___MASK27___ 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 ___MASK27___ his marriages . At his death , the male line ___MASK27___ the Constantinovich branch ___MASK27___ the Romanov family died out . Russian nationalism is a form ___MASK27___ nationalism that asserts that Russians are a nation and promotes their cultural unity . Russian nationalism first rose in the 18th century and is closely related to Pan - Slavism , from its origin during the Russian Empire to the Soviet Union .