Children
Konstantin and his wife Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna had six children:
- Nikolay Konstantinovich (1850–1918)
- Olga Konstantinovna, Queen of the Hellenes (1851–1926)
- Vera Konstantinovna (1854–1912)
- Konstantin Konstantinovich (1858–1915)
- Dmitry Konstantinovich (1860–1919)
- Vyacheslav Konstantinovich (1862–1879); died of brain hemorrhage
Konstantin had five illegitimate children with his mistress Anna Kuznetsova (1847–1922); they bore the last name Knyazev:
- Sergey Konstantinovich Knyazev (1873–1873)
- Marina Konstantinovna Knyazeva (8 December 1875 – 8 June 1941); m. 24 April 1894 Alexander Pavlovich Yershov (b. 6 July 1861), son of Gen. Pavel Yershov
- Anna Konstantinovna Knyazeva (16 March 1878 Saint Petersburg – 5 February 1920); died of typhoid fever, (m.) 29 April 1898 in Saint Petersburg to Nikolay Nikolayevich Lyalin (15 August 1869 – 14 February 1920); died of typhoid fever, son of Gen. Nikolay Lyalin, Military Governor of Helsingfors; their son was the Benedictine theologian Dom Clément Lialine
- Izmail Konstantinovich Knyazev (1879–1885); died of scarlet fever
- Lev Konstantinovich Knyazev (1883–1885); died of scarlet fever
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