Vladimirovich

Vladimirovich (plural Vladimirovichi or Vladimiroviches or Vladimirovichs)

1. a transliteration of the Russian patronymic Влади́мирович (Vladímirovič).
   • 1843, the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume II, part II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], page 663, column 2:

     ANDREW VLADIMIROVICH, a son of Vladimir Monomach [Vladimir Monomach], was born in 1102, and was prince of Pereyaslavl during the contests between the Olgoviches and the Vladimiroviches, the descendants of Oleg and Vladimir.

   • 1918, Robert Wilson, “Abdication and After”, in Russia’s Agony, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC, page 162:

     Comparatively few of the Romanovs were really well off. The Constantinovichi were the wealthiest, the Vladimirovichi the poorest. Enormous fortunes were locked up in art collections.

   • 1924, Michael S. Farbman, “‘Holy’ Russia”, in These Eventful Years: The Twentieth Century in the Making, as Told by Many of Its Makers […], volume II, London: The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, Ltd.; New York, N.Y.: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., page 78:

     In 1916 many of the Grand Dukes, notably the Michaelovichs and the Vladimirovichs, no longer visited the Court because of their opposition to Rasputin’s influence.

   • 1947, B[oris] D[mitrievich] Grekov, translated by Pauline Rose, “Name Index”, in The Culture of Kiev Rūs, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 158:

     Boris and Gleb (Vladimirovichi)—sons of the Kiev prince Vladimir.

   • 1985, V[ladimir] M[itrofanovich] Purishkevich, translated by Bella Costello, edited by Michael E. Shaw, The Murder of Rasputin: A First-Hand Account from the Diary of One of Rasputin’s Murderers, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis Publishers, →ISBN, page 87:

     I feel that the Vladimiroviches, and their mother, while remaining inherently foreign and germanophilic, do not only harm to our army at the front, but constantly intrigue against the Sovereign (which they try to disguise with high-flown talk about the good of Russia). They have never given up their hope that the throne of Russia would one day revert to their line. I can’t help but remember the story told by Ivan Grigorievich Shcheglovitov, of how, when he was Minister of Justice, Grand-Duke Boris Vladimirovich came up to him one day to have him elucidate the question: did they, the Vladimiroviches, have the right, according to the laws of the Russian Empire, to succeed to the throne, and if not, why not?

   • 1990, Brian Boyd, “Foretaste of Exile: Crimea, 1917–1919”, in Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, part I (Russia), section I, page 138:

     The children of V[ladimir] D[mitrievich] Nabokov’s eldest brother Dmitri (the Dmitrievichi) with their mother (Lydia, née Falz-Fein) and her second husband (Nicholas von Peucker) were at first strangers to the Vladimirovichi, and found Vladimir haughty and standoffish until they began to see more of him in the spring of 1918.

   • 1994, Greg King, “Autumn of Delusions”, in The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia, Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, Carol Publishing Group, →ISBN, part 4 (Sister Alexandra (1914–17)), page 260:

     It was well known that both the grand dukes Vladimir and Cyril were campaigning to replace the tsar with the tsarevich under a regency. The dowager empress detested the Vladimirovichs and allegedly sought another solution.

   • 1996, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, translated by Darya Galy, “1906: Fighting the Duma”, in Andrei Maylunas, Sergei Mironenko, A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 291:

     He is the only brother, after that it’s already the Vladimiroviches.¹

     ¹ After the Heir, Alexei, the order of succession was Nicky’s brother Mikhail [Misha], then his uncle Vladimir and his sons, Kyril, Boris and Andrei respectively.

   • 2014, Aleksandar Gatalica, translated by Will Firth, “[1917 – the Year of the Tsar] Betrayal, Cowardice and Lies”, in The Great War, London: Istros Books, →ISBN, page 291:

     The other-worldly silence was now filled by the tsaritsa, and she spoke in a husky, almost hoarse voice: ‘You will come back. Yes, you will come back. The Russian throne forever belongs to the Romanovs. The Vladimirovichs will accept the throne, those sordid weasels, but they will fast give it back to the Nikolaevichs. […]’