Alexander Vladimirovich Baryatinsky

Prince Alexander Vladimirovich Baryatinsky (22 May 1870 – 8 March 1910) was a Russian nobleman, staff captain, and bon vivant, widely known for his romance with the famous Italian opera singer Lina Cavalieri.

With his younger brother Anatoly, he hoped to be commissioned into the Horse Guards, but at the request of the Emperor Alexander III he instead went into the Nizhny Novgorod Regiment of Dragoons.

In 1897, he began an open affair with the famous opera singer and beauty Lina Cavalieri and spent huge sums of money on her.

His passion for her was serious, and he asked the Emperor Nicholas II to give him permission to marry her, but his parents did all they could to prevent this from happening.

In the summer of 1896, they had already had similar trouble, as they saw it, when their youngest son, Vladimir Baryatinsky, secretly married an actress, Yavorskaya.

A few days later, on 8 March 1910, without having regained consciousness, he died of acute meningitis and was buried in a cemetery in Florence.

[2]After the death of his father in 1910 and his grandfather in 1914, Andrei Alexandrovich Baryatinsky (1902–1944) inherited one of the richest estates in Russia, but was made destitute by the revolution.