User:Lec CRP1/Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia

Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia
Born	(1857-04-29)April 29, 1857 Tsarskoye Selo
Died	February 4, 1905(1905-02-04) (aged 47), aged 47 Moscow
Spouse	Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna
Parent(s)	Alexander II of Russia (father) Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (mother)

Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (Сергей Александрович) (April 29, 1857 - February 4, 1905, Old Style) was the seventh child and fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his first Empress consort Marie of Hesse and by Rhine.

Though one of the most capable sons of Alexander II, Sergei's reputation has been called in question both during his life and after his death. Appointed as Governor-General of Moscow by his brother Emperor Alexander III, he was regarded as a reactionary, and was strongly rumoured to have been a homosexual. Disliked by the Muscovite population and even by some of his own family, he was assassinated by a terrorist bomb in 1905.

Assassination

On the 4th of febuary 1905 duke sergei was murdered by a terrorist bomb