Catherine Pavlovna of Russia
Catherine Pavlovna Romanova, Grand Duchess of Russia (Russian Екатерина Павловна Романова ) from the House of Romanov -Holstein -Gottorp (. * 10 Maijul / May 21 1788greg in Tsarskoye Selo, . † January 9, 1819 in Stuttgart) was from 1816 to 1819 Queen of Württemberg.
Life
Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna was a daughter of the Russian Tsar Paul (1754-1801) and his wife Maria Feodorovna (born Sophie Dorothee, Duchess of Württemberg, 1759-1828 ). She had nine siblings, including the later Tsar Alexander I and Nicholas I.
In her first marriage she married on August 3, 1809, Duke George of Oldenburg, who died after only a few years of marriage 1812 of typhoid fever.
His second wife Katharina married on January 24, 1816 in St. Petersburg with her cousin, the Crown Prince Wilhelm of Württemberg ( 1781-1864 ). The marriage had come to the Congress of Vienna in 1815 concluded, not least to the ratio of Württemberg, which had been on the Napoleonic side to improve the former adversaries Russia, Austria and Prussia.
Shortly after the marriage, her husband joined in October 1816 as King William I of the government in a time of need ( crop failure, inflation, famine in Württemberg ) to. Queen Catherine developed an extensive charity work.
She became famous by founding the "Central Charity Society " in which she worked to alleviate the suffering in common with bourgeois men and women. Numerous other institutions, such as the Katharinenstift and St. Catherine's Hospital in Stuttgart, the Wurttemberg State Savings Bank and the welfare work for Baden- Württemberg go back on it.
. Katharina died unexpectedly in January 1819 when she learned that William I was not ready, and his relationship with the Italian nobleman Blanche de la Flèche ( Baroness Keudelstein ) abandon († 1864), the Queen ran - with only a thin dress gowns - in the park of the New Castle in Stuttgart, where they are in the winter cold drew upon a flu where she died a few days later. The harmless condition in itself had been reinforced by the shingles, had suffered at the Katharina since November 1818. King Wilhelm I was his wife on the Red Mountain, near Stuttgart, a mausoleum ( grave chapel ) built, where it was interred in 1824. On his site it is written: "Love never ends ".
Catherine Pavlovna, 1818
Catherine Pavlovna, bust in the grave chapel on the Rotenberg
Catherine Pavlovna, painting in Ludwigsburg Palace
Catherine Pavlovna, Obelisk in the Hohenheim Gardens
Progeny
Two sons from her first marriage to Duke George of Oldenburg:
- Peter Georg Paul Alexander ( born August 30, 1810; † November 16, 1829 )
- Konstantin Friedrich Peter (* August 26, 1812, † May 14 1881 )
Two daughters from her second marriage to King Wilhelm I of Württemberg:
- Marie Friederike Charlotte ( born October 30, 1816; † January 4, 1887 ) ∞ 1840 Count Alfred von Neipperg
- Sophie Friederike Mathilde (* June 17, 1818, † June 3, 1877 ) ∞ 1839 King William III. the Netherlands