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- DIED. Grand Duke Vladimir Romanov, 74, successor to the
- vanquished Russian throne; of a heart attack; in Miami. Romanov
- was born in exile in Finland in 1917 after Czar Nicholas II was
- forced to abdicate during the Bolshevik Revolution. Last
- November, Romanov, who lived in Paris, made his first visit to
- his ancestral homeland. In his final public statement, he
- expressed a hope that "the youth of Russia, who have suffered
- so long under the yoke of communism, will return to the
- monarchy." Romanov's heir as head of the Russian imperial family
- is his only child, Grand Duchess Maria, 38, a graduate of Oxford
- University who lives in Madrid.
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