Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia

Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich (1827-1892) was the second son of Nikolai I and his wife Charlotte of Prussia. Konstantin married Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg in 1848 and they had six children.

Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich
Born(1827-09-21)21 September 1827
Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died25 January 1892(1892-01-25) (aged 64)
Pavlovsk Palace, Pavlovsk, Russian Empire
Burial
Grand Ducal Mausoleum, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Spouse
Issue
...and 6 illegitimate children		Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich
Olga Konstantinovna, Queen of the Hellenes
Vera Konstantinovna, Duchess Eugen of Württemberg
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich
Grand Duke Dimitri Konstantinovich
Grand Duke Vyacheslav Konstantinovich
Full name
Konstantin Nikolayevich Romanov
HouseHolstein-Gottorp-Romanov
FatherNicholas I of Russia
MotherCharlotte of Prussia
ReligionRussian Orthodox

The Grand Duke was a supporter of the liberal (sometimes referred to as "enlightened") bureaucrats during the period of Alexander II's great reforms. He served as chairman of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (founded in 1845). The Geographical Society was subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was home to a conspicuous number of liberal bureaucrats including Nikolai Miliutin.

In addition to his support of and participation in the liberation of the Serfs, the Grand Duke also instituted reform of the Imperial Russian Navy in 1854.

In the years 1862-63 he served as the Tsar’s Namestnik of Kingdom of Poland. His brother was supposed to have said: “let the Poles have their own court and intrigues.” Though the Grand Duke tried to show a liberal attitude towards the Poles, his efforts came too late and he was recalled with the outbreak of the January Uprising in 1863.

Children

Konstantin and his wife Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna had six children:

At the end of the 1860s, Konstantin embarked on an affair, having an illegitimate daughter, Marie Condousso.

Konstantin had five illegitimate children with his mistress Anna Kuznetsova (1847–1922); they bore the last name Knyazev:

  • Sergey Konstantinovich Knyazev (1873–1873)
  • Marina Konstantinovna Knyazeva (8 December 1875 – 8 June 1941); m. 24 April 1894 Alexander Pavlovich Yershov (b. 6 July 1861), son of Gen. Pavel Yershov
  • Anna Konstantinovna Knyazeva (16 March 1878 Saint Petersburg – 5 February 1920); died of typhoid fever, (m.) 29 April 1898 in Saint Petersburg to Nikolay Nikolayevich Lyalin (15 August 1869 – 14 February 1920); died of typhoid fever, son of Gen. Nikolay Lyalin, Military Governor of Helsingfors; their son was the Benedictine theologian Dom Clément Lialine
  • Izmail Konstantinovich Knyazev (1879–1885); died of scarlet fever
  • Lev Konstantinovich Knyazev (1883–1885); died of scarlet fever

Konstantin was the paternal great-great grandfather of Charles, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the British throne, since his daughter Olga married George I of Greece, whose son Andrew married Alice Battenberg, and they became the parents of Philip, Charles' father.

Honours

Ancestry

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