Born: 29 April, 1857
Died: 4 February, 1905 (Julian
date) by assassination from a Bolshevik bomb.
Interred: 17 September, 1995, Kremlin,
Moscow
The favourite uncle of Csar Nicholas lay buried in an unmarked
grave beneath a Moscow Car park. He was exhumed and reburied with
due pomp and ceremony in the Romanov family vault in the Kremlin,
with the living descendants in attendance.
Father: Romanov, Alexander II Nicholoevich,
Tsar of Russia, born 17 April, 1818
Mother: Hesse-Darmstadt, Marie of, Princess,
born 8 August, 1824
Married 3 June, 1884 (Julian date) to von Hessen, Elizabeth "Ella", Grand Duchess
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