Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich

Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich was a prince of the Russian imperial house, born on 20 December 1890 (1 January 1891) in Saint Petersburg and killed in the night of 17 to 18 July 1918 near Alapayevsk. The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia canonized him in 1981 among the New Martyrs of Russia.

He was the son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna, and a great-⁠grandson of Emperor Nicholas I. He grew up in strictness and piety and read much from childhood. He graduated from the Corps of Pages in 1910 and entered the Izmailovsky Guards regiment, in which his father had also served. From 1911 he was aide-⁠de-⁠camp to Emperor Nicholas II.

He fought in the First World War. In 1915 he received the Order of Saint George, fourth class, for his courage in the battles of August 1914, then other orders, and in 1916 the sword of Saint George. At the beginning of 1917 he was a captain. In June 1917 he asked to be released from service. He never married and left no descendants.

In the spring of 1918 he was arrested and sent out of Petrograd to Alapayevsk. In the night of 17 to 18 July 1918 he was killed, together with his brothers John and Igor and other members of the Romanov house: they were struck on the head with the butt of an axe and thrown still alive into a mine shaft. His remains came in 1920 to the crypt of a church in Beijing; their present place is uncertain. He was canonized on 1 November 1981 and rehabilitated by the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia on 8 June 2009.