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Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia

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Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (Russian: Константи́н Константи́нович, IPA: [kənstɐnʲˈtʲin kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ] ; 22 August 1858 – 15 June 1915) was a grandson of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, and a poet and playwright of some renown. He wrote under the pen name "K.R.", initials of his given name and family name, Konstantin Romanov.

Early life The fourth child of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia and his spouse Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg, Grand Duke Konstantin was born on 22 August [O.S. 10 August] 1858 at the Constantine Palace, in Strelna in the Tsarskoselsky Uyezd of Saint Petersburg Governorate (now part of Saint Petersburg). His eldest sister Grand Duchess Olga married King George I of the Hellenes in 1867. From his early childhood Konstantin Konstantinovich was more interested in letters, art, and music than in the military upbringing required for Romanov boys. Nevertheless, the Grand Duke was sent to serve in the Imperial Russian Navy. Konstantin Konstantinovich was unsatisfied, and left the navy to join the elite Izmailovsky Regiment of the Imperial Guard, where he served with distinction.

Public life

Konstantin Konstantinovich was both a patron of Russian art and an artist in his own right. A talented pianist, the Grand Duke was Chairman of the Russian Musical Society, and counted Tchaikovsky among his closest friends. But Konstantin Konstantinovich was first and foremost a man of letters. He founded several Russian literary societies. He translated foreign works (including Schiller and Goethe) into Russian, and was particularly proud of his Russian translation of Hamlet, which received its premiere on 26 February 1900 in the theatre of the Hermitage Palace. An accomplished poet and playwright, Konstantin Konstantinovich also took great interest in the direction of his plays. The Grand Duke actually appeared in his last play, "King of Judea," playing the role of Joseph of Arimathea. He wrote under the pen name "K.R.", initials of his given name and family name, Konstantin Romanov. The Grand Duke's artistic slavophilism and devotion to duty endeared him to both Alexander III and Nicholas II. The former appointed Konstantin Konstantinovich as President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and later as Chief of All Military Colleges. He was also made an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1902, with reference to his chairmanship of a Swedish-Russian surveying commission. Konstantin Konstantinovich and his spouse were among the relatively few Romanovs on intimate terms with Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra, who found Konstantin Konstantinovich's devotion to his family a welcome respite from the playboy lifestyle of many of the other Grand Dukes. He was also a close friend of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna and wrote a poem about her expressing his admiration when she first came to Russia to be married. He was also one of the few members of the Imperial Family to go to Moscow to attend the funeral of Elizabeth's husband, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, who was killed by a terrorist's bomb.

Marriage and family Konstantin Konstantinovich married in 1884 in St Petersburg Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, his second cousin. Upon her marriage, Elisabeth became the Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mavrikievna. She was known within the family as "Mavra." Konstantin Konstantinovich was, by all accounts, devoted to his wife and children, and a loving father. He and his family made their home at Pavlovsk Palace, a suburban palace of St. Petersburg, and a favorite residence of Konstantin Konstantinovich's great-grandfather, the Emperor Paul I. The couple would have a total of nine children:

Prince John (1886–1918), born a Grand Duke, he was, at nine days old, stripped of the title by an Imperial ukaz and styled a Prince of the Blood Imperial Prince Gabriel (1887–1955) Princess Tatiana (1890–1979) Prince Konstantin (1891–1918) Prince Oleg (1892–1914) Prince Igor (1894–1918) Prince Georgy (1903–1938) Princess Natalia (died at exactly two months, 1905) Princess Vera (1906–2001) Prince John married Princess Helen of Serbia (daughter of King Peter of Serbia) in 1911. Princess Tatiana married Prince Konstantin Bagration-Muhransky, a Georgian prince, that same year. Konstantin Konstantinovich's children were the first to fall under the new Family Law promulgated by Emperor Alexander III. It stated that henceforth, only the children and male-line grandchildren of a Tsar would be styled Grand Duke or Grand Duchess with the style of Imperial Highness -- great-grandchildren and their descendants would be styled either "Prince of Russia" or "Princess of Russia" with the style of Highness. The revised Family Law was intended to cut down on the number of persons entitled to salaries from the Imperial treasury.

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In the classroom: Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1858 births, 1915 deaths, 19th-century LGBTQ people from the Russian Empire, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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