Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia

Prince Igor Konstantinovich Romanov, Russian Игор Константинович (born 29 Maijul / June 10 1894greg in Pavlovsk, .. † July 18, 1918 in Alapayevsk ) was a member of the House of Romanov -Holstein -Gottorp.

Life

Igor was the fifth son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov (1858-1915) and his wife Princess Elisabeth of Saxe- Altenburg (1865-1927), daughter of Prince Moritz of Saxe- Altenburg and Princess Augusta Luise of Saxe- Meiningen.

Prince Igor was trained at the Military Academy in Saint Petersburg. He served as captain of the Russian army in Ismailovsky Regiment during the First World War. In 1915, he contracted tuberculosis, the disease made ​​it impossible to get back to the front.

In April 1918, he was exiled by the Bolsheviks to Kirov and Yekaterinburg and later Alapayevsk. There he was in a mine shaft near Alapayevsk brutally murdered along with Elisabeth of Hesse- Darmstadt and his brothers Ivan Konstantinovich Romanov and Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov of the Cheka ( alive thrust into a twenty meter deep shaft and nachgeworfen hand grenades, some of them should have lived and died hours later of their injuries ). Their bodies were recovered from the mine and months later on an orthodox cemetery in Beijing, China, was buried. This was destroyed around 1945.

Worth mentioning

• On July 14, 1886 modified Tsar Alexander III. the house of the Romanovs laws by restricting the title " Grand Duke " or " Grand Duchess " on the children and grandchildren in the male line of a tsar. Distant descendants would henceforth bear the title " Imperial Prince " or "Princess ". So Ivan, a great-grandson of Tsar Nicholas I, was only an "Imperial Prince" by birth.