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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 Friedrich Alexander of Württemberg at Peterhof Palace (13 July 1846), who later became King Karl I of Württemberg (1864). Her husband was a great-nephew of Empress Maria Fyodorovna and a cousin of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna. She died in Friedrichshafen in Württemberg (1892).