Princess Charlotte of Württemberg

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Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna
(Princess Charlotte of Württemberg)
Grand Duchess Michael Pavlovich of Russia
Jelena Sarolta Pavlovna of Russia.jpg
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia. Portrait by Karl Briullov
Born (1807-01-09)9 January 1807
Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg
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Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg
Spouse Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia
Issue Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna
Elizabeta Mikhailovna, Duchess of Nassau
Catherine Mikhailovna, Duchess George Augustus of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Grand Duchess Aleksandra Mikhailovna
Grand Duchess Anna Mikhailovna
House House of Württemberg (by birth)
House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov by marriage
Father Prince Paul of Württemberg
Mother Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen
Religion Russian Orthodox
prev. Lutheran

Princess Charlotte of Württemberg (9 January 1807 – 2 February 1873) was, as Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, the wife of Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia. He was the youngest son of Tsar Paul I of Russia and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg.

Life

She was born in Stuttgart, as Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, eldest daughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg and Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen. As a child, Charlotte lived in Paris with her father and her younger sister Pauline. Their home was quite modest compared to royal standards. It was in Paris that Charlotte came under the tutelage of several intellectuals.

In 1822, she was engaged to Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich of Russia. It was said that Charlotte was an exceptional girl, highly intelligent and mature for her age of 15.[citation needed] The Grand Duke was obviously impressed by her beauty and her poise, and during a reception held in her honor, she charmed all the guests with her conversations.[citation needed] In 1823, she was received into the Russian Orthodox Church and was given the name Elena Pavlovna. On 20 February 1824, the couple married in Saint Petersburg and settled in the Mikhailovsky Palace. When the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna died in 1828, the palace of Pavlovsk passed on to Mikhail and he and Elena visited it often. Their marriage was not a happy one: Mikhail's only passion was for the army and he neglected Elena. Nevertheless, he and Elena had five daughters:

Elena was a close friend of her brother-in-law, Alexander I of Russia and his wife the Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna. She was also quick to befriend the shy Maria Alexandrovna, the wife of the then Tsarevich Alexander. When Princess Charlotte's husband died, in 1849, she became a patron of several charitable organizations and the arts. She founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire as well as a group of nursing sisters which would eventually become the forerunners of the Red Cross in Russia.

As a patroness of the composer Anton Rubinstein, she commissioned his first three operas: Fomka the Fool (1853), The Siberian Hunters, and Vengeance. [1]

Elena died in Stuttgart, at the age of 66.

Ancestry

Family of Princess Charlotte of Württemberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Karl Alexander, Duke of Württemberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Princess Maria Augusta of Thurn and Taxis
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Frederick of Württemberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Margrave Frederick William of Brandenburg-Schwedt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Friederike Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Prince Paul of Württemberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Frederick, Prince of Wales
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Princess Augusta of Great Britain
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Princess Charlotte of Württemberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Ernst Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Countess Caroline of Erbach-Fürstenau
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Margravine Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg, Prince of Mirow
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Princess Elizabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Landgrave George William of Hesse-Darmstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Falkenburg-Dagsburg
 
 
 
 
 
 

Bibliography

  • Lincoln, W. Bruce. The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russians. 1983
  • Taylor, Philip S., Anton Rubinstein: A Life in Music, Indianapolis, 2007
  • Zeepvat, Charlotte. Romanov Autumn. 2001

Notes

  1. Taylor (2007), 39