Antique Russian Photo Of Grand Duke Constantine KR Romanov 3 Murdered Sons 1911
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Rare photo of Grand Duke Konstantine Konstantinovich (1858-1915), posing for a photograph outside Chersonesus in Greece, 24th May 1911 with his sons Prince Ioann (1886-1918), Prince Konstantine (1881-1918), and Prince Igor (1894-1918). This event is described in his diary. The large snapshot style photo has been restored and pasted onto stiff card. All three sons were murdered during the Revolution in 1918.Grand Duke Konstatntine was a grandson of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, and a poet and playwright of some renown. He wrote under the pen name "K.R.", initials of his given name and family name, Konstantin Romanov.Prince Ioann was the eldest son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia by his wife Yelizaveta Mavrikievna, née Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg. He was described by contemporaries as a gentle, religious person, nicknamed "Ioannchik" by his relatives. Prince Ioann fought in the First World War, was decorated as a war hero, and was at the front when the Russian Revolution of 1917 started. In April 1918 he was exiled to the Urals by the Bolsheviks, and later murdered in July the same year in a mineshaft near Alapayevsk, along with his brothers Prince Konstantin and Prince Igor, his cousin Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley, and other relatives and friends.Prince Konstantine was a silent, shy person who fancied theatre and was educated in the Corps des Pages, a military academy in St Petersburg. He served in the army during the First World War. A priest who met him at the front, Hegumen Seraphim, wrote: "He was an extremely modest officer of the Guard of the Izmaylovsky Regiment, much beloved by officers and soldiers alike.Prince Igor attended the Corps des Pages, an imperial military academy in St Petersburg and enjoyed the theatre. During World War I, he was a captain in the Ismailovsky Guard Regiment and became a decorated war hero. However, his health was quite fragile: he suffered from 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.Photographs form part of the Description
Size: 17.5 x 12 cm approx
Rare photo of Grand Duke Konstantine Konstantinovich (1858-1915), posing for a photograph outside Chersonesus in Greece, 24th May 1911 with his sons Prince Ioann (1886-1918), Prince Konstantine (1881-1918), and Prince Igor (1894-1918). This event is described in his diary. The large snapshot style photo has been restored and pasted onto stiff card. All three sons were murdered during the Revolution in 1918.Grand Duke Konstatntine was a grandson of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, and a poet and playwright of some renown. He wrote under the pen name "K.R.", initials of his given name and family name, Konstantin Romanov.Prince Ioann was the eldest son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia by his wife Yelizaveta Mavrikievna, née Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg. He was described by contemporaries as a gentle, religious person, nicknamed "Ioannchik" by his relatives. Prince Ioann fought in the First World War, was decorated as a war hero, and was at the front when the Russian Revolution of 1917 started. In April 1918 he was exiled to the Urals by the Bolsheviks, and later murdered in July the same year in a mineshaft near Alapayevsk, along with his brothers Prince Konstantin and Prince Igor, his cousin Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley, and other relatives and friends.Prince Konstantine was a silent, shy person who fancied theatre and was educated in the Corps des Pages, a military academy in St Petersburg. He served in the army during the First World War. A priest who met him at the front, Hegumen Seraphim, wrote: "He was an extremely modest officer of the Guard of the Izmaylovsky Regiment, much beloved by officers and soldiers alike.Prince Igor attended the Corps des Pages, an imperial military academy in St Petersburg and enjoyed the theatre. During World War I, he was a captain in the Ismailovsky Guard Regiment and became a decorated war hero. However, his health was quite fragile: he suffered from 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.Photographs form part of the Description
Size: 17.5 x 12 cm approx
