Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia

Prince Igor Constantinovich
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.

See also

• Romanov sainthood

Ancestors

Ancestors of Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia

16. Emperor Paul I of Russia               8. Emperor Nicholas I of Russia                       17. Princess Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg               4. Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaievich of Russia                             18. King Frederick William III of Prussia               9. Princess Charlotte of Prussia                       19. Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz               2. Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia                                   20. Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg               10. Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg                       21. Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz               5. Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg                             22. Duke Louis of Württemberg               11. Duchess Amelia of Württemberg                       23. Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg               1. Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia                                         24. Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (=20)               12. George, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg                       25. Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (=21)               6. Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg                             26. Hereditary Prince Frederick Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin               13. Princess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin                       27. Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia               3. Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg                                   28. George I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen               14. Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen                       29. Louise Eleanor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg               7. Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen                             30. William II, Elector of Hesse               15. Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel                       31. Princess Augusta of Prussia

References

1. "The Last Official Court Calendar of the Russian Imperial House - 1917". www.angelfire.com. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
2. "Murder of the Imperial Family - Murder of the Romanovs in Alapayevsk". www.alexanderpalace.org. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
3. Serfes, Father Nektarios. "Martyrdom Of Sister Barbara, The New Martyr Of Russia". www.serfes.org. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
4. "Sts Elizabeth, Barbara and the other Alapayevsk Martyrs". www.orthodox.cn. Retrieved 11 September 2012.