Chapter 18
Volume I

1
Essentials

Born: At St. Petersburg on May 6, 1903 n.st.
Christened:
Godparents: Prince Ioann Constantinovich ??? & ??? - (43/055/16)
Name day: April 23 o.st. / May 6 n.st.
Nickname:
Parents: Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich (+1915) and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna, formerly Princess Elisabeth-Auguste-Marie-Agnes of Sachsen-Altenburg, (+1927).
Died: At New York, U.S.A. on November 7, 1938 n.st.
Buried: In a cemetery on Long Island, in N. Y. = Reburied in 1950 or a few years later in the Russian Orthodox cemetery of the Novo-Diveevo Monastery at Nanuet, N.Y., U.S.A.
Relationship to author: Second Cousin of father.
Principal residence in Russia: Marble Palace, St. Petersburg.
Diaries: None Known.
Biography: Apparently a bried biography has appeared recently in Russia.
Present Episodic Biography in 7 Episodes:
1. Essentials.
2. Introduction.
3. Early Years.
4. Wartime Russia.
5. Revolutionary Russia.
6. Life in Emigration.
7. References.
In all: About 5200 words with 7 Illustrations:
1. 1905: Dressed as a girl, with brothers Igor, Oleg and Constantine.
Chosen by mother for sending in 1906.
2. 1909: Parents' Silver wedding anniversary. From left to right. Back row: Gabriel, Ioann, Constantine. Next lower row: Duke Ernst II of Sachsen-Altenburgt and Grand Duke Constantine. Next row: Igor, Grand Duchess Elizabeth, Tatiana, Oleg. Bottom row: Vera and George.
3. 1916: Orel Cadet Corps uniform with sister Vera.
4. Will be made available later.
5. 1920 ?: Probably passport photograph.
6. 1921: With mother, sister Tatiana with children Teymouraz and Natalie and sister Vera.
7. 1928 ?: Studio photograph.

Immediate Family Tree
1 - George
1st Generation
2 - Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich. 1858-1915
3 - Princess Elizabeth of Sachsen-Altenburg. 1865-1927
2nd Generation
4 - Grand Duke Constantine Nicolaevich. 1827-1892
5 - Princess Alexandra of Sachsen-Altenburg. 1830-1911
6 - Prince Moritz of Sachsen-Altenburg. 1829-1907
7 - Princess Augustus of Sachsen-Meiningen. 1843-1919
3-rd Generation
8 - Emperor Nicholas I Pavlovich. 1796-1855
9 - Empress Alexandra Feodorovna - Pr.ss 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
4th Generation
16 - Emperor Paul I Petrovich. 1754-1801
17 - Empress Marie Feodorovna - Pr.ss Sophie of Württemberg. 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. 1784-1803
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 Augustus of Prussia. 1780-1841

Close relatives of suitable age (+/- 5 years )
Sister:
Vera -3
First Cousins Abroad:
Marie-Auguste of Anhalt +5
Charlotte of Sachsen-Altenburg +4
Georg-Moritz of Sachsen-Altenburg +3
Elizabeth of Sachsen-Altenburg =
Friedrich-Ernst of Sachsen-Altenburg -2
Nieces Once Removed.
Irene of Hohenfelsen, later Paley =
Natalie of Hohenfelsen, later Paley -2
Second Cousins in Russia
Princess Nadejda Petrovna +5
Prince Feodor Alexandrovich +5
Grand Duchess Maria Nicolaievna +4
Prince Nikita Alexandrovich +3
Prince Alexander Georgievich Yurjevsky +3
Prince Dimitri Alexandrovich +2
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaievna +2
Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich +1
Tsessarevich Grand Duke Alexis Nicolaievich -1
Prince Vassili Alexandrovich -4
Second Cousins Abroad
Olga of Merenberg +5
Louise-Marie of Sachsen-Meiningen +4
Bernhard of Sachsen-Meiningen +2

2
Introduction
--- 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.
In the case of the Episodic Biography of Prince George Constantinovich, there seems little interest to devote to this prince the usual chapter titled
"Personality Summary of a Romanov Man...." in which is offered an itemised list of opinions by contemporaries, outlining specific aspects of the subject's personality. His look, character and personality remain unknown to me, and of course no selected saying is on hand to be registered.
Did he have a limited circle of friends, or perhaps he was something of a loner, with one surviving brother - Gabriel - 16 years older and two sisters. He had some first and second cousins in Germany, and his younger sister Vera lived until a certain time with her Sachsen-Altenburg relatives.
Prince George seems to have been such an elusive character that I was unable to find any mention of him in any book of memoirs. All said, I see Prince George Constantinovich as a rather sad young man, marked by the tragic fate of four of his brothers, a young man adrift in a world he was not taught to face.

But for the snapshots taken in Sweden, no particular description is available as to how Prince George looked in his thirties. Among the few who still could have remembered him, Princess Irene Paley told me that after the Revolution she never met him again.
Does the drastic and as usual caustic remark of Grand Duke Nicholas Michailovich, expressed in 1917, apply to him too ?: The Constantinovichi: nice people, but silly and sickly.
Two other descriptions may fit: Empress Alexandra at an earlier time noted that the Constantinovichi are always sick and Prince Nikita Alexandrovich, as told me by his son Alexander, anytime he was among the Constantinovichi he felt he was in an aquarium, alluding to their looking like red fish in a glass bowl, mouth opening and closing rhytmically. Not Much, indeed as a description. (9692 & HP)
--- Finally I have to thank my cousin Irina who was able to give me precious information about Prince George Constantinovich, who was barely a few years older than her late husband, Prince Teymouraz Bagration Moukhransky. Princess Irina has in her possession some letters of Prince George to her mother-in-law, Princess Tatiana Constantinovna as well as letters of American friends of George describing the sudden illness and death of her brother and telegrams from sister Vera. (HP)
--- Identification of sources of Nicholas Romanov ( HP) :
(HP) - Nicholas Romanov - Opinions, comments and sundry readings.
(From 1 to 9999 + HP) - Nicholas Romanov comments complementing text of source.
(From 1 to 9999) = Book property of Nicholas Romanov.
(From 30001 to 30999) = Book property of Nicholas Romanov. Temporary identification.
(From 40001 to 40999) = Letters received by Nicholas Romanov.
(40 & >>>> /......) = Documentation in archives of Nicholas Romanov.

3
Early Years

1903
--- Prince George Constantinovich was born at the Marble Palace in St.Petersburg on May 5, 1903 n.st. This seventh addition to the already numerous family of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich came almost a decade after the birth of Oleg. George, with his brother Constantine and sisters Tatiana and Vera were the only ones of nine to receive more conventional Family names. (HP)

1905
--- On February 17, 1905 n.st., Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich went up into the nursery and began to push around the pram of his two-year old son George. His wife saw that he was crying. The Grand Duke had just received the news of the murder in Moscow of his childhood friend, and first cousin, Grand Duke Serge Alexandrovich Governor General of Moscow. (9580)
--- That same year, in early spring, most of the family of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich, was living not far from Volokolamsk, in the recently acquired and typically Russian estate of Ostashevo............

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