Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia

Infobox Russian Royalty|grand duke
name =Alexander Alexandrovich
title =Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia


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caption = Alexander Alexandrovich on his bier in 1870.
imperial house = House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
father =Alexander III of Russia
mother =Dagmar of Denmark
spouse =
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date of birth =birth date|1869|6|7|mf=y
place of birth = Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
date of death =death date and age|1870|5|2|1869|6|7|mf=y
place of death = Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
place of burial=|

Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov, (In Russian Великий Князь Александр Александрович Романов), was the infant son of Alexander III and Empress Marie of Russia. He was born on June 7, 1869, and died on May 2, 1870. At the time of his birth, his father, as the eldest son of Tsar Alexander II, was titled as the Tsarevich of Russia. After his elder brother, the Grand Duke Nicholas, the infant Grand Duke was third in succession to the imperial throne.

Said to be larger and more robust looking than his elder brother, Alexander died of meningitis in 1870. "The doctors maintain he did not suffer, but we suffered terribly to see and hear him," [cite book |last=Zeepvat |first=Charlotte |title=The Camera and the Tsars |publisher=Sutton Publishing |isbn=075094210X |pages=178 ] his mother wrote to her own mother, Queen Louise of Denmark. His parents had him posthumously photographed and sketched to remember him, therefore it seems likely that the only existing photograph of Grand Duke Alexander is the one to the right, of the infant in his coffin surrounded by flowers.

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Ancestry

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1= 1. Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia
2= 2. Alexander III of Russia
3= 3. Dagmar of Denmark
4= 4. Alexander II of Russia
5= 5. Marie of Hesse and by Rhine
6= 6. Christian IX of Denmark
7= 7. Louise of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
8= 8. Nicholas I of Russia
9= 9. Charlotte of Prussia
10= 10. Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse
11= 11. Wilhelmine of Baden
12= 12. Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
13= 13. Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
14= 14. Prince William of Hesse
15= 15. Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark
16= 16. Paul I of Russia
17= 17. Sophie Dorothea of Württemburg
18= 18. Frederick William III of Prussia
19= 19. Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
20= 20. Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse
21= 21. Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt
22= 22. Charles Louis of Baden
23= 23. Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt
24= 24. Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
25= 25. Friederike von Schlieben
26= 26. Charles of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
27= 27. Princess Louise of Denmark and Norway
28= 28. Prince Frederick of Hesse
29= 29. Princess Caroline Polyxene of Nassau-Usingen
30= 30. Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark and Norway
31= 31. Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

External links

* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p10221.htm#i102210 Picture of Alexander in his coffin]