Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia
| Prince Igor Constantinovich | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
10 June 1894 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died |
18 July 1918 (aged 24) Alapayevsk, Russian SFSR |
| House | Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov |
| Father | Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia |
| Mother | Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg |
Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia (Игорь Константинович) (10 June 1894 – 18 July 1918),[1] was the sixth child of HIH Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia by his wife Elisaveta Mavrikievna née HH Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg.
Biography
Igor was born on June 10, 1894 and attended the Corps des Pages, an imperial military academy in Saint Petersburg. He enjoyed theatre.
During World War I, he was a captain in the Ismailovsky Guard Regiment and became a decorated war hero. However, his health was quite fragile: he suffered from pleurisy and lung complications in 1915, and even if he returned to the trenches, he couldn't walk quickly and often coughed and spat blood.
On 4 April 1918, he was exiled to the Urals by the Bolsheviks and murdered in July the same year in a mineshaft[2] near the town of Alapaevsk, along with his brothers HH Prince John Constantinovich and HH Prince Constantine Constantinovich, his cousin Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley and other relatives and friends.[3] His body was eventually buried in the Russian Orthodox Church cemetery in Beijing,[4] which was destroyed in 1986 to build a park.
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References
- ↑ "The Last Official Court Calendar of the Russian Imperial House - 1917". www.angelfire.com. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ↑ "Murder of the Imperial Family - Murder of the Romanovs in Alapayevsk". www.alexanderpalace.org. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ↑ Serfes, Father Nektarios. "Martyrdom Of Sister Barbara, The New Martyr Of Russia". www.serfes.org. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ↑ "Sts Elizabeth, Barbara and the other Alapayevsk Martyrs". www.orthodox.cn. Retrieved 11 September 2012.