Ivan Konstantinovich Romanov

Imperial Prince Ivan Konstantinowitsch Romanow together with his wife Princess Elena of Serbia , 1911

Prince Ivan Konstantinovich Romanov , Russian Иоанн Константинович (born June 23 ^{. Jul} / 5. July 1886 ^greg. In Pavlovsk , † 18th July 1918 in Alapayevsk ) was a member of the House of Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp .

Life

Ivan was the eldest son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Romanow (1858-1915) and his wife Princess Elisabeth von Sachsen-Altenburg (1865-1927), daughter of Prince Moritz von Sachsen-Altenburg and Princess Augusta Luise von Sachsen-Meiningen.

On August 21, 1911, Grand Duke Iwan Konstantinowitsch Romanov married Princess Elena Karađorđević of Serbia (1884–1962), daughter of King Peter I of Yugoslavia and Princess Zorka Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro in Saint Petersburg . The happy marriage resulted in two children, Iwan Iwanowitsch (1914–1973) and Ekaterina Iwanowna (1915–2007).

Grand Duke Ivan fought in the Russian army in World War I and was decorated as a war hero. He fought on the front lines in the Russian October Revolution and was captured in 1917. In April 1918 he was exiled by the Bolsheviks to Kirov and later to Yekaterinburg and Alapayevsk . There he was murdered by the Cheka in a mine shaft near Alapayevsk, along with Elisabeth von Hessen-Darmstadt and his brothers Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Romanow and Igor Konstantinowitsch Romanow . Their bodies were recovered from the mine and buried months later in an Orthodox cemetery in Beijing . This was destroyed around 1945.

His wife was able to flee to France via Sweden in 1919 . She died in Nice in 1962 .

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 of “ Imperial Prince” or “Imperial Princess”. Ivan, a great-grandson of Tsar Nicholas I , was born "Grand Duke", but a few weeks later only became "Imperial Prince".

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personal data
SURNAME	Romanov, Iwan Konstantinowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Романов, Иоанн Константинович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Member of the House of Romanow-Holstein-Gottorp
DATE OF BIRTH	July 5, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pavlovsk
DATE OF DEATH	18 July 1918
Place of death	Alapayevsk