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Elena Pavlovna (Russian: Елена Павловна; 24 December [O.S. 13 December] 1784 – 24 September [O.S. 12 September] 1803) was a grand duchess of Russia as the daughter of Paul I, the Russian emperor, and later became the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin as the wife of the Hereditary Grand Duke Frederick ...
Princess Charlotte of Württemberg (9 January 1807 – 2 February [O.S. 21 January] 1873), later known as Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, was the wife of Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, the youngest son of Emperor Paul I of Russia and Duchess Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg.
Sep 27, 2017 · Every student of nineteenth-century Russia is familiar with the name of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna. Not only was she the aunt by marriage of Tsar Alexander II (and, indeed, the sister-in-law of Tsar Alexander I and Tsar Nicholas I), she was also a central figure in the complex series of political and bureaucratic manœuvres that ...
Few could have predicted that Princess Fredericke Charlotte, the future Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, was destined to become one of the architects of the emancipation of serfs in the Russian Empire.
Elena Pavlovna was a grand duchess of Russia as the daughter of Paul I, the Russian emperor, and later became the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin as the wife of the Hereditary Grand Duke Frederick Louis (1778–1819).
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia. (* 24.12.1784, O 23.10.1799, † 24.9.1803) Emperor Alexander I of Russia. Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia. Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, Queen consort of Württemberg. Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Queen consort of the Netherlands ...
In 1823, she was received into the Russian Orthodox Church and was given the name Elena Pavlovna. In 1824 she married Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich of Russia and the couple had five daughters. In 1849, on the death of her husband, she became a notable patron of charities and the arts.
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, Princess Isabel and the Ending of Servile Labour in Russia and Brazil - September 2023.
Jan 9, 2014 · This article examines the long-neglected role of two royal women in the emancipation of servile labour in the empires of Russia and Brazil. It argues that the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia and Princess Isabel of Brazil were significant actors in the emancipation process.
Feb 29, 2016 · A study of the Grand Duchess Elena of Russia offers a new understanding of Russian and international events of the time, the Romanovs’ role in them, the degree of autonomy enjoyed by high-born women in Russia and the ways in which new ideas gained ground in the nineteenth-century Russian empire.
