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(Redirected from Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaievich of Russia)

Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich
Grand Duke of Russia
Photograph, c. 1880
9th Viceroy of the Kingdom of Poland
In office
27 May 1862 – 19 October 1863
MonarchAlexander II
Preceded byAlexander von Lüders
Succeeded byFriedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg

Born(1827-09-21)21 September 1827
Winter Palace, Saint 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

(m. 1848)
Issue
Detail
  • Olga Konstantinovna, Queen of the Hellenes
  • Vera Konstantinovna, Duchess Eugen of Württemberg
  • Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich
  • Grand Duke Dimitri Konstantinovich
  • Grand Duke Vyacheslav Konstantinovich
  • Names
    Konstantin Nikolayevich Romanov
    HouseHolstein-Gottorp-Romanov
    FatherNicholas I of Russia
    MotherCharlotte of Prussia

    Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (Russian: Великий князь Константин Николаевич; 21 September 1827 – 25 January 1892) was the Emperor's Viceroy of Poland from 1862 to 1863 and a general admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy.

    Early life[edit]

    Konstantin Nikolayevich was born as the second son of Nicholas I and his wife, Charlotte of Prussia, daughter of Frederick William III of Prussia and his first wife, Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

    Biography[edit]

    The Grand Duke was a supporter of the liberal (sometimes referred to as "enlightened") bureaucrats during the period of his brother 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 [ru], including Nikolai Miliutin.

    In addition to his support of and participation in the 1861 emancipation of the serfs, the Grand Duke also instituted reforms in the Imperial Russian Navy from 1854.

    Konstantin's brother, Alexander II of Russia was supposed[by whom?] 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.

    Marriage and issue[edit]

    In the Winter PalaceinSt Petersburg, on 11 September 1848, Konstantin married Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg, daughter of Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and his wife, Duchess Amelia of Württemberg. They 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:

    Konstantin was the paternal great-great-grandfather of King Charles III of the United Kingdom, since his daughter Olga married George I of Greece, whose son Andrew married Princess Alice of Battenberg, and they became the parents of Philip, Charles' father. Through Constantine I of Greece, another son of Olga and George I, Konstantin is also the paternal great-great-grandfather of Queen Sofía of Spain, mother of King Felipe VI.

    In fiction[edit]

    The Grand Duke is a central character in Act III of the novel Forty-Ninth[1] by Boris Pronsky and Craig Britton. In the book, Konstantin is the brains behind the liberal reforms of his brother, Russian Emperor Alexander II, as well as the sale of Alaska to the United States.

    Honours[edit]

    National orders and decorations
    Foreign orders and decorations
  • Grand Cross of St. Olav, 11 August 1865
  • Kingdom of Prussia:[3]
  •  Denmark: Knight of the Elephant, 23 July 1844[4]
  •  Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach: Grand Cross of the White Falcon, 19 September 1846[5]
  • Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg Saxe-Meiningen Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, October 1846[6]
  •  Württemberg: Grand Cross of the Württemberg Crown, 1846[7]
  •  Kingdom of Hanover:[8]
  •  Netherlands: Knight of the Military William Order, 3rd Class, 30 August 1849;[9] Commander, 3 June 1857[10]
  •  Austrian Empire:[11]
  •  Kingdom of Bavaria: Knight of St. Hubert, 1849[12]
  •  Duchy of Parma:[13]
  •  Oldenburg: Grand Cross of the Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig, with Golden Crown, 9 March 1853[14]
  •  Grand Duchy of Hesse: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order, 18 February 1857[15]
  • Kingdom of Sardinia: Knight of the Annunciation, 26 February 1857[16]
  • French Empire: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, May 1857[17]
  •  Belgium: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (military), 1 June 1857[18]
  •  Baden:[19]
  •  Kingdom of Saxony: Knight of the Rue Crown, 1857[20]
  •  Two Sicilies: Grand Cross of St. Ferdinand and Merit[21]
  •  Spain: Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III, 15 November 1880[22]
  • Ancestry[edit]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ Boris, Pronsky; Britton, Craig. Forty-Ninth. pp. 114–171. ISBN 9798201386238.
  • ^ Sveriges och Norges Statskalender (in Swedish), 1876, pp. 473, 717, retrieved 20 February 2019 – via runeberg.org
  • ^ "Königlich Preussische Ordensliste", Preussische Ordens-Liste (in German), 1, Berlin: 4, 11, 934, 1886
  • ^ Jørgen Pedersen (2009). Riddere af Elefantordenen, 1559–2009 (in Danish). Syddansk Universitetsforlag. p. 468. ISBN 978-87-7674-434-2.
  • ^ Staatshandbuch für das Großherzogtum Sachsen / Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1859),『Großherzogliche Hausorden』p. 12 Archived 22 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine
  • ^ Staatshandbücher für das Herzogtum Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1847), "Herzogliche Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden" p. 27
  • ^ Württemberg (1869). Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreichs Württemberg: 1869. p. 31.
  • ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch für das Königreich Hannover. Berenberg. 1854. pp. 33 63.
  • ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Romanov, Constantin Nicolajevitsj" [Military William Order: Romanov, Konstantin Nikolaevich]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 30 August 1849. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  • ^ "Militaire Willems-Orde: Romanov, Constantin Nicolajevitsj" [Military William Order: Romanov, Konstantin Nikolaevich]. Ministerie van Defensie (in Dutch). 3 June 1857. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  • ^ "Ritter-Orden", Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie, 1892, pp. 67, 69, retrieved 2 November 2019
  • ^ Bayern (1867). Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern: 1867. Landesamt. p. 9.
  • ^ Almanacco di corte (in Italian). 1858. pp. 240, 318. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  • ^ Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Großherzogtums Oldenburg: 1879. Schulze. 1879. p. 31.
  • ^ Staatshandbuch für das Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein (1879), "Großherzogliche Orden und Ehrenzeichen ", p. 10
  • ^ Luigi Cibrario (1869). Notizia storica del nobilissimo ordine supremo della santissima Annunziata. Sunto degli statuti, catalogo dei cavalieri. Eredi Botta. p. 116.
  • ^ M. & B. Wattel. (2009). Les Grand'Croix de la Légion d'honneur de 1805 à nos jours. Titulaires français et étrangers. Paris: Archives & Culture. p. 515. ISBN 978-2-35077-135-9.
  • ^ Ferdinand Veldekens (1858). Le livre d'or de l'ordre de Léopold et de la croix de fer. lelong. p. 213.
  • ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1858),『Großherzogliche Orden』pp. 34, 48
  • ^ Staatshandbuch für den Freistaat Sachsen: 1865/66. Heinrich. 1866. p. 4.
  • ^ Napoli (Stato) (1857). Almanacco reale del Regno delle Due Sicilie: per l'anno ... Stamp. Reale. p. 406.
  • ^ "Real y distinguida orden de Carlos III", Guía Oficial de España (in Spanish), 1887, p. 158, retrieved 21 March 2019
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