1
Essentials

Born: At Pavlovsk on July 5, 1886 n.st.
Christened:
Godparents:
Name day: July 7 n.st. Saint John the Baptist.
Nickname: Ioanchik.
Parents: Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna ( Princess Elizabeth of Sachsen-Altenburg.
Engaged: At Racconigi, Italy, in July 1911.
Married: At Peterhof on September 2, 1911 n.st. with Princess Helen of Serbia.
Issue: (1) Vsevolod, born at St.Petersburg on August 21, 1914 n.st.; (2) Catherine, born at Pavlovsk on July 25, 1915 n.st.
Died: At Alapaievsk, Siberia on 17/18 July 1918 n.st.
Buried: After being thrown alive in a mine pit and dying there, remains removed for burial and successively transferred from Alapaievsk to Kharbin and thence to Beijing. Perhaps buried there in, or close to, the Russian church.
Relationship to author: Second Cousin of Father.
Principal residences in Russia: Marble Palace, St. Petersburg & Pavlovsk Palace at Tsarskoe Selo.
Diaries: Probably kept, but either lost, destroyed or not yet available.
Biography: None known.
Present Episodic Biography in 12 Episodes:
1. Essentials.
2. Introduction.
3. Childhood: Puny Weedy Little Fellow !
4. Adolescence: Military Training and Sundry Sicknesses.
5. Horse Guards Officer.
6. Personality Summary of a Romanov Man of 28.
7. At War as long as health allowed.
8. The End of Tsarism.
9. In Petrograd and in Exile.
10. That Fatal July 1918.
11. In Search of Eternal Rest.
12. References.
In all 54 pages, 24550 words and 5 Illustrations:
1. Alapaievsk house of detention
2. 1907 - Dress uniform of the Horse Guards.
3. 1914 - Field uniform with wife Princess Helen.
4. 1915 ? - Rifle Battalion uniform.
5. 1917 - Winter field uniform.

Immediate Family Tree
1 Ioann
1st Generation
2 - Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich (1858-1919)
3 - Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna, Princess Elizabeth of Sachsen-Altenburg (1865-1927)
2nd Generation
4 - Grand Duke Constantine Nicolaievich (1827-1892)
5 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna, Princess Alexandra of Sachsen-Altenburg (1830-1911)
6 - Prince Moritz of Sachsen-Altenburg (1829-1907)
7 - Princess Auguste of Sachsen-Meiningen (1843-1919)

3rd Generation
8 - Emperor Nicholas I Pavlovich (1796-1855)
9 - Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, Princess Charlotte of Prussia - (1798-1860)
10 - Duke Joseph of Sachsen-Altenburg (1789-1868)
11 - Princess Amelie of Wurttemberg (1799-1848)
12 - Duke Georg of Sachsen-Altenburg (1796-1868)
13 - Princess Luise-Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1803-1882)
14 - Duke Bernhard II of Sachsen-Meiningen (1800-1852)
15 - Princess Marie of Hessen (1804-1888)

4-th Generation
16 - Emperor Paul I Petrovich (1754-1801)
17 - Empress Marie Feodorovna, Princess Sophie of Wurttemberg (1759-1828)
18 - King Wilhelm III of Prussia (1770-1840)
19 - Princess Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776-1810)
20 - Duke Friedrich of Sachsen-Hildburghausen (1763-1834)
21 - Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1769-1818)
22 - Prince Ludwig-Friedrich of Wurttemberg (1756-1817)
23 - Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg (1780-1857)
24 - Duke Friedrich of Sachsen-Altenburg (1763-1834)
25 - Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg (1769-1818)
26 - Prince Friedrich-Ludwig of Mecklenburg (1778-1819)
27 - Grand Duchess Helen Pavlovna of Russia (1784-18030
28 - Prince Georg of Sachsen-Meiningen (1761-1803)
29 - Princess Luise-Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1763-1837)
30 - Landgrave Wilhelm II of Hessen (1777-1847)
31 - Princess Auguste of Prussia (1780-1841)

Close relatives of suitable age (+/- 5 years )
Siblings:
Gavriil -1
Tatiana - 4
Constantine -5

First Cousins in Russia
Helen Wladimirovna +4

First Cousins unlikely to be met in Russia
Artemij Nicolaievich Iskander +3
Alexander Nicolaievich Iskander -3

First Cousins Abroad
Prince Andrew of Greece +4
Prince Christopher of Greece -2

Second Cousins in Russia
Grand Duchess Helen Wladimirovna + 4
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna + 4
Duke Friedrich-Franz of Mecklenburg-Schwerin + 4
Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh, Princess of Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha +2
Prince Alexander Georgievich Romanovsky, Duke of Leuchtenberg +1
Duchess Cecile of Mecklenburg =
Sophie Wladimirovna Sheremetev - 2
Prince Serge Georgievich Romanovsky Duke of Leuchtenberg - 4
Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna -4
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich -5

Second Cousins Abroad
Prince Ernst August of Hannover +1
Prince Ernst Vaulted of Schaumburg-Lippe -1
Princess Feodorovna of Sachsen-Meiningen -4
Princess Adelheid of Sachsen-Meiningen -5
Prince Stefan Alexander Victor of Schaumburg-Lippe -5

2
Introduction
--- When I began looking into my ‘Young Constantinovich’ Episodical Biographies I realised how repetitive the first part would be. Since their childhood and adolescence the first batch of the young Constantinovich princes lived the same life. I decided to use the identical text for the earlier part of the lives of Ioann, Gabriel, Tatiana, Constantine, Oleg and Igor. Even when the events described did not concern the subject of the biography they somehow related to all the others, so tightly knit was family life.
"Kostya" - Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich, a poet and man respected and loved by all the family, married in 1884 his second cousin "Mavra" - Elizabeth Mavrikievna, aged 19, Princess of Sachsen-Altenburg.
"Mavra" was a typical German ‘hausfrau’, a very plain, very kind, very simple and very homely woman, but very conscious of her own and her husband's rank in the Imperial Family. In the first nine years of married life, the prolific Grand Duchess produced six children and then after an interval of some nine years, had three more . Grand Duke Constantine followed the lead of other older grand dukes, and chose for his first-born son a typically Russian name: Ivan, which of course would officially be Ioann. (HP)
--- In the chronological listing of events in the following chapters, important family occasions such as weddings and funerals are always noted. With births of the closest relatives, these were all occasions for visiting one's relatives. Are also registered family events occurring in childhood or adolescence since children were often taken along by their parents to meet relatives, as occasions to arrange suitable marriages and make friends of their age.
--- The immediate family events and those of the Emperor's family are generally mentioned after 1890, that is as soon as Prince Ioann Constantinovich is 4. Births, marriages and deaths of relatives are mentioned from 1901 on, when occurring in Russia and from 1906 on, when occurring abroad.
--- Identification of sources of Nicholas Romanov:
(HP) - Nicholas Romanov - Opinions, comments and sundry readings.
(From 1 to 9999 + HP) - Book property of HP - Comments by HP complementing text.
(From 1 to 9999) = Book property of HP.
(From 10001 to 19990
(From 30001 to 39999) = Book property of HP. Temporary identification.
(From 40001 to 49999) = Letters received by HP
(40/...... ) = Romanov files - Documentation in HP archives.
(43/ ..... ) = Romanov Files - Documentation in HP archives.
3
Childhood: Puny weedy little fellow !
1886
--- Birth of Prince Ioann Constantinovich on July 5, 1886 n.st. at Pavlovsk .
He was the first member of the Romanov family to be styled only Highness and not Imperial Highness, as with the modification of the Imperial Statute promulgated by Emperor Alexander III: Great Grand children of an Emperor, in the male line of descent were no longer......

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