Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia (''Игорь Константинович''; 10 June 1894 – 18 July 1918)
was the sixth child of
Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia 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, an imperial military academy in
Saint Petersburg
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. He enjoyed theatre.
During
World War I
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, 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, along with his brothers
Prince John Constantinovich and
Prince Constantine Constantinovich, his cousin Prince
Vladimir Pavlovich Paley 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
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