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==Russian prince==
Prince Feodor Alexandrovich Romanov was born at the [[Winter Palace]] in [[Saint Petersburg]], Russian Empire on 23 December 1898. He was the second son and third child among seven siblings. Although a grandson of [[Alexander III of Russia|Emperor Alexander III]] through his mother, he was not entitled to the title Grand Duke of Russia because he was only a great-grandson of [[Nicholas I of Russia|Emperor Nicholas I]] in the male line through his father. He spent his early years in Imperial Russia. Following family tradition, he began a military career. During [[World War I]] he entered the [[Corps of Pages]].
In 1914, his only sister Irina married the controversial [[Felix Yusupov]], who would later murder Rasputin. In his memoirs, Yusupov described his brother-in-law: "''Prince Theodore in particular was very hostile to me. This fifteen-year-old boy was tall for his age; his wild and curly chestnut hair framed a handsome, typically nordic face with very mobile features. His expression could be as ferocious as a wild beast's, or as gentle as a child's. He had a keen sense of humor and an unexpected turn of mind. The hostility which he'd shown me at first soon turned into a deep and lasting friendship. When I married his sister, he made his home with us."''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yusupov |first=Felix |title=Lost Splendor |publisher=P. Gutnam's sons |year=1953 |location=New York |pages=171}}</ref>
At the fall of the Russian monarchy, he looked for refuge with his family in his father's property in [[Crimea]]. They lived there undisturbed until the rise to power of the [[Bolsheviks]] with the [[October Revolution]] in 1917. For some time, Prince Feodor was under house arrest in Ai-Todor and later at Dulber imprisoned with his parents, siblings, grandmother the Dowager Empress and many more Romanov relatives.
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