Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

. Helene, Duchess of Mecklenburg [- Strelitz ], married Princess of Saxe -Altenburg, Duchess of Saxony (born 4 Januarjul / January 16 1857greg in Saint Petersburg, . † August 28, 1936 in Remplin, full name Marie Helene Elisabeth Alexandra Auguste Catherine, Duchess of Mecklenburg ) was a member of the Russian branch of the grand Ducal house of Mecklenburg -Strelitz.

Life and work

Helene was the second child and only daughter of Duke George of Mecklenburg [- Strelitz ] (1824-1876) and his wife, Grand Duchess Catherine of Russia (1827-1894), daughter of Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich Romanov Tsar Paul I and granddaughter her brothers were George Alexander and Carl Michael.

On December 13, 1891, she married at Castle Remplin Prince Albert of Saxe -Altenburg, the 14 years old only son of Edward of Saxe- Altenburg. For him, it was the second marriage after his first wife Marie in 1888 died of puerperal fever. She was the stepmother of his daughters Olga Elisabeth (1886-1955), ∞ 1913 Count Carl Friedrich von Pueckler castle Hauss, and Marie ( 1888-1947 ). Her marriage to Albert remained childless.

The couple first lived alternately in Berlin and Saint Petersburg, and left in 1896 Berlin quite what contemporary reports on differences with Kaiser Wilhelm II led back. They moved on acquired Albert Good Kuchelmiß with Serrahn, where he died in 1902.

Helene went to Saint Petersburg and was living with her ​​brother Carl Michael and that of her deceased brother in 1909 Georg Alexander family. In 1917 she fled before the Russian Revolution, initially to the Caucasus and reached France and Denmark to Remplin, they initially lived with her ​​nephew George, Duke of Mecklenburg. In 1930 her brother Carl Michael lived here.

Helene was buried in the cemetery of Remplin on the side of Carl Michael.

Your private library came after the revolution in the collection of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

She was religious lady of the Russian Order of St. Catherine.