Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia (''Игорь Константинович''; 10 June 1894 – 18 July 1918)
was the sixth child of
Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia ( rus, Константи́н Константи́нович, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ, a=Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov.ru.vorb.oga; 22 August 1858 – 15 June 1915 ...
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
The Page Corps (russian: Пажеский корпус; french: Corps des Pages) was a military academy in Imperial Russia, which prepared sons of the nobility and of senior officers for military service. Similarly, the Imperial School of Jurispru ...
, an imperial military academy in
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
. He enjoyed theatre.
During
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, he was a cornet in the His Majesty's Hussar Guards Regiment and became a decorated war hero. However, his health was quite fragile: he suffered from
pleurisy
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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
near the town of
Alapaevsk
Alapayevsk (russian: Алапа́евск) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Neyva and Alapaikha rivers. Population: 44,263 ( 2002 census); 50,060 ( 1989 census); 49,000 (1968).
History
Alapayevsk is o ...
, along with his brothers
Prince John Constantinovich and
Prince Constantine Constantinovich, his cousin Prince
Vladimir Pavlovich Paley
Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley (russian: Князь Владимир Павлович Палей; 9 January 1897 – 18 July 1918) was a Russian nobleman and poet who was murdered by the Bolsheviks when he was 21 years old.
Life
He was born ...
and other relatives and friends.
His body was eventually buried in the
Russian Orthodox Church
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cemetery in
Beijing
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,
which was destroyed in 1986 and is now a parking lot.
See also
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Romanov sainthood
The canonization of the Romanovs (also called "glorification" in the Russian Orthodox Church) was the elevation to sainthood of the last House of Romanov, Imperial Family of Russian Empire, Russia – Nicholas II of Russia, Tsar Nicholas II, his wi ...
Ancestors
References
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1894 births
1918 deaths
Murdered Russian royalty
Princes of royal blood (Russia)
Russian military personnel of World War I
Victims of Red Terror in Soviet Russia
Executed people from Saint Petersburg
19th-century people from the Russian Empire
Eastern Orthodox royal saints
Executed royalty
Burials in Beijing