Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia explained

Prince Igor Constantinovich
House:Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
Father:Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia
Mother:Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg
Birth Date:10 June 1894
Birth Place:Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Death Place:Alapayevsk, Russian SFSR

Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia (Игорь Константинович; 10 June 1894 – 18 July 1918)[1] was the sixth child of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia by his wife Elisaveta Mavrikievna née 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 cornet in the His Majesty's Hussar Guards Regiment. His health was quite fragile: he had 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 Prince John Constantinovich and 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 and is now a parking lot.

See also: Martyrs of Alapayevsk.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Last Official Court Calendar of the Russian Imperial House - 1917. Angelfire. 11 September 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100831043743/http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ImperialRussian/royalty/russia/calendar.html. 31 August 2010.
  2. Web site: Murder of the Imperial Family - Murder of the Romanovs in Alapayevsk. www.alexanderpalace.org. 11 September 2012.
  3. Web site: Serfes. Father Nektarios. Martyrdom Of Sister Barbara, The New Martyr Of Russia. www.serfes.org. 11 September 2012.
  4. Web site: Sts Elizabeth, Barbara and the other Alapayevsk Martyrs. www.orthodox.cn. 11 September 2012.