Burial Grand Ducal Mausoleum Name Grand Vyacheslav | Role Grand Duke of Russia House House of Romanov | |
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Born 13 July 1862
Warsaw, Poland ( 1862-07-13 ) Father Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich of Russia Mother Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg Died February 27, 1879, Saint Petersburg, Russia Parents Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia Grandparents Nicholas I of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna Cousins Grand Duke Sergei Al, Alexander III of Russia, Grand Duke Vladimir, Grand Duke Alexei Al, Grand Duke Paul Alexandr Similar People Grand Duke Konstanti, Princess Alexandra of Saxe‑A, Grand Duke Dmitry Ko, Grand Duke Nicholas, Nicholas I of Russia | ||
Grand Duke Vyacheslav Constantinovich of Russia, (13 July 1862 – 27 February 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 first name is Wenceslas.
Biography
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.