Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia (
Russian
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: Великий Князь Александр Александрович Романов; 7 June 1869 – 2 May 1870) was the
infant son of then-
Tsesarevich
Tsesarevich (russian: Цесаревич, ) was the title of the heir apparent or presumptive in the Russian Empire. It either preceded or replaced the given name and patronymic.
Usage
It is often confused with " tsarevich", which is a di ...
Alexander Alexandrovich and his wife,
Tsesarevna Maria Feodorovna.
Grand Duke Alexander's father was
heir apparent
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to the
Russia
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n throne as the eldest living son of Emperor
Alexander II of Russia. The Grand Duke was Alexander and Marie's second child, second son, and the younger brother of the future Emperor
Nicholas II. Though his father eventually succeeded to the Russian throne as Alexander III, Grand Duke Alexander died before this.
He died of
meningitis in 1870, one month before his first birthday. Following his death, his mother wrote to her own mother,
Queen Louise of Denmark: "The doctors maintain he did not suffer, but we suffered terribly to see and hear him."
Ancestry
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1869 births
1870 deaths
Deaths from meningitis
Neurological disease deaths in Russia
Infectious disease deaths in Russia
House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
Russian grand dukes
19th-century people from the Russian Empire
Children of Alexander III of Russia
Sons of emperors
Burials at Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg
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