Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia

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HIH Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich, the infant son of Tsar Alexander III, on his bier, in 1870.

Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov, (In Russian Великий Князь Александр Александрович Романов), was the infant son of Alexander III and Empress Marie of Russia. He was born on June 7, 1869, and died on May 2, 1870. At the time of his birth, his father, as the eldest son of Tsar Alexander II, was titled as the Tsarevich of Russia. After his elder brother, the Grand Duke Nicholas, the infant Grand Duke was third in succession to the imperial throne.

Said to be larger and more robust looking than his elder brother, Alexander died of meningitis in 1870. "The doctors maintain he did not suffer, but we suffered terribly to see and hear him,"^[1] his mother wrote to her own mother, Queen Louise of Denmark. His parents had him posthumously photographed and sketched to remember him, therefore it seems likely that the only existing photograph of Grand Duke Alexander is the one to the right, of the infant in his coffin surrounded by flowers.

[edit] References

1. ^ Zeepvat, Charlotte. The Camera and the Tsars. Sutton Publishing, 178. ISBN 075094210X. 

[edit] Ancestry

[edit] External links

• Picture of Alexander in his coffin

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