Grand Duke Vyacheslav Konstantinovich

13 July 1862 – 27 February 1879

by Penny Wilson

In the high summer of 1862, in the beautiful Polish city of Warsaw, Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna, wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Nicholaievich, gave birth to her fourth son and sixth child, a little boy known in the family as “Slava.”  This tiny Grand Duke was christened fourteen days later at the Lazienki Palace amidst a national tem…