Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Romanow (1891-1918)
Prince Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Romanow ( Russian Константин Константинович Романов; * December 20, 1890 July / January 1, 1891 greg. In Saint Petersburg ; † July 18, 1918 in Alapajewsk ) was a member of the House of Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp and held the title of member of the House of Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp of a prince of Russia .
Life
Konstantin was the third 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.
Constantine met his cousins at the many family get-togethers and was enthusiastic about the eldest daughter of the Tsar, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolajewna Romanowa (1895–1918) and Princess Elisabeth of Romania (1894–1956). Elisabeth's grandmother, Duchess Maria von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha , wrote a letter of praise to her daughter, Crown Princess Marie of Romania , about the young prince. Later a telegram came from Romania that a marriage was impossible for political reasons, since the bridegroom's brother was married to Princess Elena Karađorđević of Serbia .
Prince Konstantin wanted to go to the theater, but he later trained at the military academy in Saint Petersburg. He served as an officer of the Russian army in Ismailowsky Regiment during the First World War . 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 in a mine shaft near Alapayevsk, together with Elisabeth von Hessen-Darmstadt and his brothers Iwan Konstantinowitsch Romanow and Igor Konstantinowitsch Romanow by members of the Cheka . They were thrust alive into a twenty-meter-deep shaft and thrown hand grenades. Some of them are said to have been alive and died hours 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 in 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". So Constantine, a great-grandson of Tsar Nicholas I , was only an "Imperial Prince" by birth.
Web links
- Je.W. Ptschelow and AN Bochanow: Genealogy of the Romanows 1613–2001 (Генеалогия Романовых 1613–2001), Exlibris-Press, 2001, page 94 (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Romanow, Konstantin Konstantinowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Romanov, Prince Konstantin Konstantinowitsch (full name); Романов, Константин Константинович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian member of the House of Romanow-Holstein-Gottorp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18 July 1918 |
| Place of death | Alapayevsk |