Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia

Prince Igor Constantinovich
Born(1894-06-10)10 June 1894
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died18 July 1918(1918-07-18) (aged 24)
Alapayevsk, Russian SFSR
HouseHolstein-Gottorp-Romanov
FatherGrand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia
MotherPrincess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg

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. He enjoyed theatre.

During World War I, he was a cornet in the His Majesty's Hussar Guards Regiment. His health was quite fragile: he had pleurisy 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 cemetery in Beijing, which was destroyed in 1986 and is now a parking lot.

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