Grand Duke Vyacheslav Constantinovich of Russia

Infobox Russian Royalty|grand duke
name =Vyacheslav Constantinovich
title =Grand Duke Vyacheslav Constantinovich of Russia


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imperial house =House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
father =Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich of Russia
mother =Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg
date of birth = birth date|1862|7|13|mf=y
place of birth = Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
date of death =death date and age|1879|2|27|1862|7|13|mf=y)
place of death =Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
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Grand Duke Vyacheslav Constantinovich of Russia, (July 13, 1862 - February 27, 1879), was a Romanov grand duke and the youngest son of Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaevich of Russia and his wife Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna. The English form of his forename is Wenceslas.

Vyacheslav, who was nicknamed "Slava," was the baby of the family and a family favorite. He was tall and used to joke that, when he is dead, his coffin would be stuck in a doorway of the Marble Palace. It really happened so when he died. At age sixteen, he complained suddenly of a splitting headache and violent illness. He lay with a Russian Orthodox icon on his pillow as his family surrounded him, urging him to breathe. He died within a week of brain inflammation. His mother later reported that she had seen the ghost of a white lady in the art gallery at Pavlovsk on the day before Vyacheslav became ill. She took the apparition as a portent of death. His brother Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia later recalled, as he walked in Vyacheslav's funeral procession, how much Vyacheslav enjoyed drawing funeral processions in great detail. [Zeepvat (2004), p. 182]

Ancestry

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1= 1. Grand Duke Vyacheslav Constantinovich of Russia
2= 2. Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaievich of Russia
3= 3. Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg
4= 4. Nicholas I of Russia
5= 5. Charlotte of Prussia
6= 6. Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
7= 7. Amelia of Württemberg
8= 8. Paul I of Russia
9= 9. Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg
10= 10. Frederick William III of Prussia
11= 11. Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
12= 12. Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen
13= 13. Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
14= 14. Duke Louis of Württemberg
15= 15. Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
16= 16. Peter III of Russia
17= 17. Catherine II of Russia
(Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst)
18= 18. Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg
19= 19. Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt
20= 20. Frederick William II of Prussia
21= 21. Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt
22= 22. Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
23= 23. Landgravine Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt
24= 24. Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen
25= 25. Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach
26= 26. Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (= #22)
27= 27. Landgravine Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt (= #23)
28= 28. Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (= #18)
29= 29. Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt (= #19)
30= 30. Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg
31= 31. Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau

Notes

References

*Pchelov, E.V. (2003). "The Romanovs: history of the dynasty. Archive". Moscow, OLMA-PRESS. ISBN 5-224-01678-9
*Zeepvat, Charlotte (2004). "The Camera and the Tsars". Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-3049-7