Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia
Russian prince
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Prince of the Imperial Blood Igor Konstantinovich of Russia (Russian: Игорь Константинович; 10 June 1894 – 18 July 1918)[1] was the sixth child of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia by his wife Elisaveta Mavrikievna née Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg.
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Alapayevsk, Russian SFSR
| Igor Konstantinovich Romanoff | |
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| Prince of the Imperial Blood | |
 Igor in the uniform of His Majesty’s Hussar Life Guards Regiment, 1913. | |
| Born | 10 June 1894 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died | 18 July 1918 (aged 24) Alapayevsk, Russian SFSR |
Cause of death | Murder |
| House | Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov |
| Father | Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia |
| Mother | 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[2] 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.[3] His body was eventually buried in the Russian Orthodox Church cemetery in Beijing,[4] which was destroyed in 1986 and is now a parking lot.
See also
Ancestors
| Ancestors of Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia |
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