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In 1817, the future Tsar Nicholas I married the nineteen-year-old daughter of King Frederick William III of Prussia, Princess Fredericke Luise Charlotte Wilhelmine, who converted to Orthodoxy as Alex...
Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich was the seventh child and fourth son of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna. He was born at Peterhof Palace (1832). Master of the ordnance and commander of the artiller...
Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich the Elder was the sixth child and third son of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna. Known as Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich the Elder, to distinguish him from his son, ...
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich was the fifth child and second son of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna. He was born in St Petersburg on 9 September 1827. Konstantin was a wilful and unruly child...
Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna was the fourth child and third daughter of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna. She was born in Tsarskoe Selo in 1825. The whole family was devastated at the sudden...
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna was the third child and second daughter of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna. She was born at the Anichkov Palace in St Petersburg (1822). She married Crown Prince Fri...
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna was the second child and first daughter of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna. She was born in Pavlovsk Palace in 1819. Maria was known in the family by the more Engli...