Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, the future Emperor Vladimir I (second from the right) with his parents and sister Kira
Vladimir I (Vladimir Kirillovich) (born 30 August (O.S. 17 August) 1917 in Tsarskoye Selo, Saint Petersburg, Russia, died there 21 April 1992) was Emperor of Russia and King of Poland. He was the third child and only son of Emperor Cyril I of Russia and his wife, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
He became Emperor of Russia and King of Poland upon the death of his father on 12 October 1938.
Emperor Vladimir I married on 13 August 1948 to Princess Leonida Georgievna Bagration of Mukhrani (1914-2010), a daughter of Prince George Bagration of Mukhrani and his wife, Helena Sigismundovna, née Nowina Zlotnicka. Vladimir and Leonida had a daughter, Mary (born 1953).
Having no male issue, the throne passed to Nicholas III.