Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia
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Date of birth | 10 August 1856 (in Julian calendar) Strelna | ||||
Date of death | 15 June 1915, 2 June 1915 (in Julian calendar) Pavlovsk | ||||
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Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (Russian: Константи́н Константи́нович) (1858–1915) was a grandson of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, and a poet and playwright of some renown. He is best known by his pen name, "K. R".
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1891, painted by Ilya Yefimovich Repin
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Великий князь Константин Константинович - поэт К. Р.
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Константин Константинович
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William Shakespeare translated by K. R.
Marriage and family
[edit]Konstantin Konstantinovich married in 1884 in Saint 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."
The couple had nine children:
- Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia (1886 - 1918)
- Prince Gavriil Konstantinovich of Russia (1887 - 1955)
- Princess Tatiana Konstantinovna of Russia (1890 - 1970)
- Prince Konstantine Konstantinovich of Russia (1891 - 1918)
- Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia (1892 - 1914)
- Prince Igor Konstantinovich of Russia (1894 - 1918)
- en:Prince Georgi Konstantinovich of Russia (1903 - 1938)
- Natalia (died at exactly two months, 1905)
- Princess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia (1906 - 2001)