| Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich | |
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| Alexander Alexandrovich on his bier in 1870. | |
| House | House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov |
| Father | Alexander III of Russia |
| Mother | Dagmar of Denmark |
| Born | June 7, 1869 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died | May 2, 1870 (10 months 26 days) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia (In Russian Великий Князь Александр Александрович Романов; June 7, 1869 – May 2, 1870) was the infant son of Alexander III and Empress Marie of Russia. 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.
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