1
Essentials
Born: At Strelna, St. Petersburg on June 10, 1894 n.st.
Christened:
Godparents:
Name day: July 17 n.st. and July 18 n.st. after 1900: Blessed Athanase of Mount Athos and Transfer of relics of St. Serge of Radonej.
Nickname: None known
Parents: Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich and Grand
Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna ( Duchess Elisabeth-Auguste-Marie-
Agnes of Sachsen-Altenburg )
Assassinated: At Alapaievsk July 18, 1918 n.st.
Buried: After being thrown alive in a mine pit and dying there, remains recovered and awaiting burial 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, near Tsarskoe Selo and Ostashevo estate in the province of Moscow.
Diaries: ?
Biography: None known.
Present Episodic Biography in 10 Episodes:
1. Essentials.
2. Introduction.
3. A tightly Knit Family Group.
4. The Lay of Prince Igor.
5. The End of Tsarism.
6. Personality Summary of a Romanov Man of Twenty-Three.
7. In Petrograd and in Exile.
8. That Fatal July 1918.
9. In Search of Eternal Rest.
10. References,
In all: 59 pages, 25955 words with 6 Illustrations:
1. 1897 - (9165) - With brother Oleg.
2. 1909/1910 - (43/054/17a) - Cadet Uniform.
3. 1914/1915 - (43/054/17c) - In Uniform. with order of St.Wladimir
4th class.
4. 1916 - (43/054/17b) - In uniform, having tea at Levashovo.
5. Map of Eastern Urals and Alapaevsk area.
6. Hussars' battle fields in East Prussia, tinted pink.

Immediate Family Tree
1 - Igor

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 Louise-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 )
Brothers:
Constantine + 4
Oleg + 2
First Cousins Abroad
Prince Stephan Alexander Victor of Schaumburg-Lippe +3
Prince Heinrich of Schaumburg-Lippe =
Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt -4
Princess Charlotte Agnes of Sachsen-Altenburg -5

Second Cousins in Russia
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna +4
Prince Serge Georgievich Romanovsky, Duke of Leuchtenberg + 4
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich + 3
Princess Helen Georgievna Romanovsky, Duchess of Leuchtenberg + 2
Princess Marina Petrovna + 2
Princess Irina Alexandrovna - 1 ( also daughter of second cousin )
Prince Roman Petrovich - 2
Prince Andrew Alexandrovich - 3 ( also son of second cousin )
Prince Wladimir Pavlovich Paley - 3
Princess Nadejda Petrovna - 4
Prince Feodor Alexandrovich - 4 ( also son of second cousin )

Daughters of Second Cousin in Russia
Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna - 1
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nicolaievna - 3
Grand Duchess Maria Nicolaievna - 5

Second Cousins Abroad
Princess Feodora of Sachsen-Meiningen +4
Princess Adelheid of Sachsen-Meiningen +3
Prince Georg of Sachsen-Meiningen +2
Countess Anastasia Mihailovna Torby + 2
Prince Ernst of Sachsen-Meiningen -1
Countess Nadejda Mihailovna Torby - 2
Prince Nikolaus of Oldenburg -3
Prince Ernst August of Hannover -3
Count George of Merenberg - 3
Countess Olga of Merenberg - 4
Count Michael Mihailovich Torby - 4
Princess Louise Marie of Sachsen-Meiningen -4
(Memo: There might exist second cousins von Pawel-Rammingen )

2
Introduction
--- When I began my second or third ‘Younger Constantinovichi’ Episodical Biography I realised how repetitive the first part would be. Since their childhood and adolescence the first batch of the young Constantinovichi 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 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 another nine years, had three more in three years. Another typical Russian name chosen for a young Romanov prince, a name with strong poetical and historical links. (HP)
--- That the young Constantinovichi led a very sheltered life seems obvious, but is also very clear that the family links were extremely strong and they all were bound by reciprocal ties of love and attention. Perhaps due to that famous lack of communication between young people, unable to find friends outside the family and close relatives.
For some reason, the young Constantinovichi were not highly considered by the other young Romanovs, and in their appearance there was a slightly sickly look,
something not so frequent among the descendants of Emperor Nicholas I.
They had as father a man of great culture, a man deeply religious, perhaps tormented by questionable passions and who was wholly Russian, mind and culture.
Their mother, the homely, kind Grand Duchess Elisabeth Mavrikievna, was a deeply moral woman, who never abandoned her Lutheran faith, but educated in truest Orthodoxy her numerous children. No one ever pretended that the Grand Duchess was a woman of great culture, but in her plain simple way she
was always the mainstay of her family. Fate was kinder to her husband, who died before the terrible death of three of his sons. (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 plan suitable marriages and make friends of their age.
--- The immediate family events and those of the Emperor's family are generally mentioned after 1899, that is as soon as Igor Constantinovich is 4. Births, marriages and deaths of relatives are mentioned from 1909 on, when occurring in Russia and 1914 when occurring abroad.
--- Identification of sources of Nicholas Romanov:
(HP) - Nicholas Romanov - Opinions, comments and sundry readings.
(From 1 to 9999) = Book property of HP..
(From 1 to 9999 + HP) - HP comments complementing text of source.
(From 10001 to 19999) = Book not property of HP.
(From 30001 to 39999) = Book property of HP. Temporary identification.
(40 & >>>> /...... ) = Documentation in archives of HP.
(43/.... Romanov personal Family Files of HP.
(HP)

3
A Tightly Knit Family Life
1894
--- Igor was born nearly asphyxiated and was all blue, and the midwife had to beat him vigourously to make him breathe. According to Igor himself, that was the cause of his habit of speaking loudly. (9580)
--- Most of the numerous progeny of "Kostya" and "Mavra" somehow never had a healthy look, nor were they as attractive as children, or handsome in their youth, as other Grand Duke's sons and daughters. Examining the lives of their closest German relations, one somehow senses a kind of lesser vitality perhaps due to far too many marriages between close relations.
Childless or unmarried cousins were more numerous..........

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