Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia
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Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia (Игор Константинович) (June 10, 1894–July 18, 1918), was the sixth child of HIH Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia by his wife Elisaveta Mavrikievna née HH Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg. He grew up to be a slender, kind-hearted young man, who fancied theatre, was generally liked by people and spoke a bit too loud. He attended the Corps des Pages, an imperial military academy in Saint Petersburg.
During World War I, he was 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.
On April 4, 1918, he was exiled to the Urals by the Bolsheviks and murdered in July the same year in a mineshaft near the town of Alapaevsk, along with his brothers HH Prince John Constantinovich and HH Prince Constantine Constantinovich, his cousin His Serene Highness Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley and other relatives and friends. His body was eventually buried in the Russian Orthodox Church cemetery in Beijing, which was destroyed years later to build a park.
