in a mineshaft near Alapaevsk, together with his cousins Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Konstantine Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Igor Konstantinovich of Russia, and other relatives. Their bodies were recovered by the Imperial White Army and placed in coffins, then moved around during fighting with the Red Army. They were brought and buried months later at the Russian Mission Orthodox cemetery in Beijing, China, the site of which was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and is now a parking area. A biography of Prince Vladimir Paley by Andrey Baranovsky was published in 1997 in Russian, and another (A Poet Among The Romanovs) by Jorge F. Saenz was published in 2004, in both Russian and English. He is now venerated by the Russian Orthodox Church as a Saint and martyr. Ancestry See also Romanov sainthood References 1897 births 1918 deaths Russian male poets Murdered Russian royalty Writers from Saint Petersburg Victims of Red Terror in Soviet Russia Executed people from Saint Petersburg 20th-century Russian poets Princes Paley Morganatic issue of Romanovs Burials in Beijing