Igor Konstantinowitsch Romanov
Prince Igor Konstantinovich Romanov ( Russian Игорь Константинович Романов; born May 29 . Jul / 10. June 1894 greg. In Pavlovsk , † 18th July 1918 in Alapayevsk ) was a member of the House of Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp .
Life
Igor was the fifth son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Romanow (1858-1915) and his wife Princess Elisabeth of Saxony-Altenburg (1865-1927), daughter of Prince Moritz of Saxony-Altenburg and Princess Augusta Luise of Saxony-Meiningen.
Prince Igor trained at the St. Petersburg Military Academy . He served as a staff captain of the Russian army in Hussar Life Guards Regiment during the First World War . In 1915 he fell ill with tuberculosis , which made it impossible to return to the front.
In April 1918 he was exiled by the Bolsheviks to Kirov and later to Yekaterinburg and Alapayevsk . There he was brutally murdered in a mine shaft near Alapayevsk, together with Elisabeth von Hessen-Darmstadt and his brothers Iwan Konstantinowitsch Romanow and Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Romanow von der Cheka (thrust alive into a twenty meter deep shaft and thrown hand grenades, some of them supposed to have lived and died after hours of their injuries). Their bodies were recovered from the mine and buried months later in an Orthodox cemetery in Beijing , China . This was destroyed around 1945.
Worth mentioning
- On July 14, 1886, Tsar Alexander III modified the the house laws of the Romanovs, by restricting the title “Grand Duke” or “Grand Duchess” to the children and grandchildren in the male line of a tsar. Distant descendants would in future bear the title " Imperial Princes" or "Princess". Ivan, a great-grandson of Tsar Nicholas I , was only an “Imperial Prince” by birth.
Web links
- IS Semyonov: Christian Dynasties in Europe (Христианские династии Европы), Olma Media Group, 2002, page 427 (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Romanov, Igor Konstantinowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Romanov, Prince Igor Konstantinovich (full name); Романов, Игорь Константинович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Member of the House of Romanow-Holstein-Gottorp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pavlovsk (Saint Petersburg) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18 July 1918 |
| Place of death | Alapayevsk |