Editing Grand duke (section)

=== Russian grand dukes ===<!-- This section is linked from [[Harold Godwinson]] -->

[[Image:Maria Fyodorovna of Russia by H. von Angeli (1874, Hermitage).jpg|thumb|left|upright|''Portrait of Grand Duchess [[Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)|Maria Fiodorovna]]'' by Heinrich von Angeli (1874)<BR/>Saint Petersburg, [[Hermitage Museum]]]]

From 1328 the ''Velikii Kniaz'' of [[Grand Duchy of Moscow|Muscovy]] appeared as the grand duke for "all of Russia" until [[Ivan IV of Russia]] in 1547 was [[Coronation|crowned]] as [[tsar]]. Thereafter the title was given to sons and grandsons (through male lines) of the Tsars and Emperors of Russia. The daughters and paternal granddaughters of Russian emperors, as well as the consorts of Russian grand dukes, were generally called "grand duchesses" in English.

From 1809 to 1917 the Emperor of [[Russia]] was also the [[Grand Duke of Finland]], which he held as an autonomous state. Before the Russian conquest Finland had been held by the Kings of Sweden, first as a [[royal duchy]], since 1581 with the King assuming the secondary title Grand Duke of Finland (Finnish: ''Suomen suuriruhtinas'', Swedish: ''Storfurste av Finland'').