Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia


Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, was a daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia and sister of Emperors Alexander I and Nicholas I. She became Archduchess of Austria upon her marriage to Archduke Joseph of Austria, Governor of Hungary. Her marriage was the only RomanovHabsburg marital alliance that ever occurred.

Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna was born in Saint Petersburg as the third child and eldest daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia and his second wife Sophie Dorothea of Wrttemberg. The sex of the child disappointed her paternal grandmother, Empress Catherine II. She wrote

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