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Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich was the fourth child and fourth son of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna. He was born in Tsarskoe Selo (1879). He was a major general of the Horse Artillery Life Guards Regiment during the First World War. He emigrated (1917) and married Mathilde Kschessinska (1921). He died in Paris (30 October 1956) and was buried in St-Genevieve-des-Bois Cemetery (1956).