Prince George Constantinovich of Russia
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Prince Georgi Konstantinovich of Russia, (May 6, 1903 - November 7, 1938), was the youngest son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia and his wife Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mavrikievna
Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, he escaped to Sweden in October 1918 with his mother, younger sister Princess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia, and niece and nephew aboard the Swedish ship Angermanland.[1]
Prince George and Princess Vera, remained at Pavlovsk throughout the war, the chaotic rule of the Provisional Government, and after the October Revolution. In the fall of 1918, they were permitted by the Bolsheviks to be taken by ship to Sweden (on the Ångermanland, via Tallinn to Helsinki and via Mariehamn to Stockholm), at the invitation of the Swedish queen.
At Stockholm harbor they met prince Gustaf Adolf who took them to the royal palace. Elizaveta Mavrikievna and Vera and Georgi lived for the next two years in Sweden, first in Stockholm then in Saltsjöbaden; but Sweden was too expensive for them so they moved first to Belgium by invitation of Albert I of Belgium, and then to Germany, settling in Altenburg where they lived 30 years, except for a couple of years in England. Elizaveta died of cancer on the 24th of March 1927 in Leipzig.
Georgi, who never married, became a successful interior designer. He died of complications following surgery in New York City at the age of 35.[2]
