This guy actually fits my memories of having two children with someone I was very in love with. The fact that he was a war hero and wanted to become a Christian Monk also fits my basic nature too. So, even though I don't look at all like this guy. What he went through better fits my memories of being killed.
Prince John Conssia
stantinovich of Russia
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Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia (
Russian:
Иоанн Константинович) (5 July 1886 – 18 July 1918), sometimes also known as
Prince John,
Prince Ivan or
Prince Johan, 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.
Early life
Imperial Monogram of Prince Ioann Konstantinovich
Ioann Konstantinovich was born as a
Grand Duke of Russia with the style
Imperial Highness, but at the age of 9 days, a
Ukaz of his cousin Emperor
Alexander III of Russia
stripped him of that title, as the Ukaz amended the House Law by
limiting the grand-ducal title to grandsons of a reigning emperor. As a
result he received the title
Prince of the Imperial Blood (Prince of Russia) with the style
Highness.
He once entertained the possibility of becoming an
Orthodox monk, but eventually fell in love with
Princess Helen of Serbia. They married on 2 September 1911, and Helen took the name Princess Yelena Petrovna of Russia. They had a son,
Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich (20 January 1914 – 18 June 1973), and a daughter,
Prince Yekaterina Ivanovna
(12 July 1915 – 13 March 2007), who was the last member of the Imperial
Family to be born before the fall of the dynasty, and was ultimately to
become the last surviving uncontested dynast of the
Imperial House of Russia.
Revolution and death
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 Konstantinovich and
Prince Igor Konstantinovich, his cousin
Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley, and other relatives and friends.
His body was eventually buried in Beijing, in the cemetery of the
Russian Orthodox Mission, which was destroyed years later to build a
park. His sister
Princess Vera Konstantinovna, mother
Grand Duchess Yelizaveta Mavrikievna
and wife Princess Yelena Petrovna left Russia in April 1919 with help
from the King of Norway. His daughter Princess Yekaterina married
Ruggero, Marquis Farace di Villaforesta (a descendant of the
Medici family of Florence). Yekaterina lived in
Buenos Aires and later in
Montevideo,
Uruguay
where she died in 2007. His sister Princess Vera Konstantinovna, the
youngest daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, died in New
York in 2001, aged 94.
Titles and styles
- 5 July 1886 – 14 July 1886: His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia
- 14 July 1886 – 18 July 1918: His Highness Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia
Ancestors
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See also
