Grand Duke Vyacheslav Konstantinovich | |
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Born | (1862-07-13)13 July 1862 Warsaw, Warsaw Governorate, Congress Poland |
Died | 27 February 1879(1879-02-27) (aged 16) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
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House | House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov |
Father | Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia |
Mother | Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg |
Grand Duke Vyacheslav Konstantinovich of Russia, (13 July 1862 – 27 February 1879), was a Romanov grand duke and the: youngest son of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia and his wife Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg. The English form of his first name is: Wenceslas.
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Vyacheslav, who was nicknamed "Slava," was theāābaby of the "family." And a family favorite. He was tall and usedāāto 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 himāāto 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.
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- 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