Prince Oleg Constantinovich of Russia

Infobox Russian Royalty|prince
name =Oleg Constantinovich
title =Prince Oleg Constantinovich of Russia


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imperial house =House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
father =Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia
mother =Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg
date of birth = birth date|1892|11|27|mf=y
place of birth = Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
date of death = death date and age|1914|10|12|1892|11|27|mf=y
place of death = Vilnius, Lithuania
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Prince Oleg Constantinovich of Russia (OldStyleDate|27 November|1892|15 November - OldStyleDate|12 October|1914|27 September), was a son of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia.

He died of wounds suffered in battle against the Germans during World War I.

Early life

Prince Oleg was generally considered to be the brightest of Grand Duke Constantine's children. He had great curiosity and created complicated fantasy games for himself and his siblings to play. [Zeepvat, Charlotte, "The Camera and the Tsars: A Romanov Family Album," Sutton Publishing, 2004, p. 66]

Grand Duke Constantine, a poet himself, arranged for his children to receive lessons from experts in a variety of fields. Well-known archaeologists told the children about their latest expeditions, architects showed the children slides and explained their works, choirs of Old Believers and peasants from all corners of the empire were brought to sing church music or folk songs to the children. [Zeepvat, p. 79] Oleg was so intelligent that his father decided to send him to a prestigious school, the Alexander Lyceum, rather than to give him the standard military education that the other men in the family received. Konstantin's unconventional choice of education for Prince Oleg met with disapproval from his family members. [Zeepvat, p. 79] Oleg was Grand Duke Konstantin's favorite son. [Zeepvat, p. 197]

At one point he reportedly hoped to marry a cousin, Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia, but this hope was prevented by the advent of World War I.

ervice in World War I and death

Prince Oleg, with four of his brothers, served in the Guards during World War I. He was wounded while fighting against the Germans. Emergency surgery could not save him. As he was dying, he said, "I am so happy. It will encourage the troops to know that the Imperial House is not afraid to shed its blood." [Zeepvat, p. 197]

Ancestors

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1= 1. Prince Oleg Constantinovich of Russia
2= 2. Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia
3= 3. Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg
4= 4. Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaievich of Russia
5= 5. Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg
6= 6. Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg
7= 7. Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen
8= 8. Emperor Nicholas I of Russia
9= 9. Princess Charlotte of Prussia
10= 10. Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
11= 11. Duchess Amelia of Württemberg
12= 12. George, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
13= 13. Princess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
14= 14. Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
15= 15. Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
16= 16. Emperor Paul I of Russia
17= 17. Princess Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg
18= 18. King Frederick William III of Prussia
19= 19. Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
20= 20. Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
21= 21. Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
22= 22. Duke Louis of Württemberg
23= 23. Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg
24= 24. Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (=20)
25= 25. Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (=21)
26= 26. Hereditary Prince Frederick Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
27= 27. Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia
28= 28. George I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
29= 29. Louise Eleanor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
30= 30. William II, Elector of Hesse
31= 31. Princess Augusta of Prussia

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