Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich (1859–1918) was the first-born son of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia and Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Russia and a grandson of Nicholas I of Russia. 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Grand Duke Konstantin of Russia. ... Alexandra Iosifovna, born Princess Alexandra Friederike Henriette of Saxe-Altenburg, (1830-1911) married Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich Romanov of Russia, second son of Nicholas I of Russia in September 1848. ... Nicholas I of Russia Nikolai I Pavlovich (Russian: Николай I Павлович), July 6 (June 25, Old Style), 1796–March 2 (February 18, Old Style), 1855), also Nicholas, was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855 and king of Poland from 1825 until 1831. ...

Early life

Born in St Petersburg in the middle of the nineteenth century into the Romanov family, he had a very privileged childhood. Most royal children were brought up by nannies and servants so by the time Nikolai had grown up he lived a very independent life having become a gifted military officer and an incorrigible womanizer. He had an affair with a notorious American lady Fanny Lear. This affair let him into a plot to betray his family and so he was banished to the far reaches of the Russian empire never to see home again. Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... The House of Romanov (Ром́анов, pronounced ) was the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled Muscovy and the Russian Empire for five generations from 1613 to 1762. ...

Later life

He lived for many years under constant supervision in the area around Tashkent, South Eastern Russia and made a great contribution to Tashkent by using his personal fortune to help improve the local area. In 1890 he ordered the building of his own palace in Tashkent to house and show his large and very valuable collection of works of art and the collection is now the center of the State museum of arts of Uzbekistan. He was also famous in Tashkent as a competent engineer and irrigator, constructing two large canals, the Bukhar-aryk (which was poorly aligned and soon silted up) and the much more successful Khiva-Aryk, later extended to form the Emperor Nicholas I Canal, irrigating 12,000 desyatinas, 33,000 acres (134 km²) of land in the 'Hungry Steppe' (Голодной Степь) between Djizak and Tashkent. Most of this was then settled with Slavic peasant colonisers. Tashkent Tashkent (Toshkent or Тошкент in Uzbek, Ташкент in Russian; its name translates from the Turkoman language to Stone City in English) is the current capital of Uzbekistan. ... Obsolete Russian weights and measures were used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution until they were replaced in the Soviet Union by a metric system in 1924. ... // Ethno-cultural subdivisions Slavs are customarily divided into three major subgroups: East Slavs, West Slavs, and South Slavs, each with a somewhat different background. ...

Nikolai had a number of children by different women and one of his grandchildren Natalya Androssov Iskander Romanov died in Moscow in 1999. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Map of Uzbekistan

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Death

Nikolai died on the 26th January 1918 and was buried in St George's Cathedral Tashkent (later demolished by the Soviet regime) and although the revolution had started he had a state funeral as he was so admired by the local population. 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... St Georges Cathedral St Georges Cathedral Southwark is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Southwark, South London. ... A state funeral is a public funeral ceremony held to honour heads of state or other important people of national significance. ...

Family

Nikolai married Nadedja Alexandrovna von Dreyer (1861-1929) in 1882 there were two children from this marriage:

• Artemi Nikolaievitch Prince Iskander (1883-1919) killed in the Russian Civil War
• Alexander Nikolaievitch Prince Iskander (1889-1957) married May 5, 1912 Olga Iosifovna Rogovsk (1893-1962). Alexander and Olga were later divorced, their two children were:
  • Kyrill Aleksandrovitch Prince Iskander (1914-1992)
  • Natalya Androssov Iskander Romanov (1917-1999)

Alexander then married in 1930 Natalya Khanykov (1893-1982) May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...

Nikolai also had the following children:

• Two children by Alexandra Abaza who died in 1894
  • Olga (died in 1910)
  • Nicholas (died in 1913)
• Three children by Daria Eliseievna
  • Stanislas (died in 1919)
  • Nicholas (died in 1922)
  • Daria (died in 1966)

External links

• Nikolia's Palace in Tashkent