Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia was the second child and daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich of Russia and Princess Charlotte of Wrttemberg who took the name Elena Pavlovna upon her conversion to the Orthodox faith. Through her father, Elizabeth was a granddaughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia, and a niece of both Russian emperors Alexander I and Nicholas I.

Elizabeth, nicknamed Lili, was born in the Kremlin in Moscow and she was named after her aunt who had died earlier that month, the Empress Elizabeth, wife of Emperor Alexander I and a close friend of her mother. She grew up with her other siblings in the Mikhailovsky Palace in Saint Petersburg. Elizabeth was said to be the prettiest among her sisters, and like her mother, Elena Pavlovna, she was graceful in manners and welleducated. By the end of 1843, Adolf, Duke of Nassau was visiting St.160Petersburg and met Elizabeth for the first time. Adolfs stepmother was Princess Pauline of Wrttemberg, Elizabeths maternal aunt, and so he was related to the Russians in some way. Adolf and Elizabeth fell in love and they eventually got married onJanuary 1844 in St.160Petersburg. Elizabeth wasyears old and Adolf was 26.

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