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Princess Therese Of Nassau-Weilburg
, image = NassauTeresia.jpg , image_size = , caption = , spouse = , issue = Alexandra, Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of RussiaDuke NicholasDuchess Cecile Duke AlexanderDuchess CatherineDuke George Duke Constantine Therese, Princess Therese Petrovna Romanovskaya , house = Nassau-Weilburg , father = William, Duke of Nassau , mother = Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen , birth_date = , birth_place = Weilburg, Duchy of Nassau , death_date = , death_place = Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary , burial_place = Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg (german: Therese Wilhelmine Friedrike Isabelle Charlotte Prinzessin von Nassau-Weilburg; , Terezya Vasilyevna Nassauskaya; 17 April 1815 in Weilburg, Duchy of Nassau – 8 December 1871 in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary) was a member of the House of Nassau-Weilburg and a Princess of Nassau-Weilburg by birth. Through her marriage to Duke Peter of Oldenburg, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Peter Of Oldenburg
Duke Constantine Frederick Peter of Oldenburg (german: Konstantin Friedrich Peter; russian: Пётр Гео́ргиевич Ольденбу́ргский, translit=Pëtr Geórgievič Ol'denbúrgskij; – ) was a Duke of the House of Oldenburg. He was the grandfather of Duke Peter of Oldenburg as well as grandfather of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, General of the Imperial Russian Army during World War I. His great-great grandson, Nicholas Romanov, was the President of the Romanov Family Association until his death in 2014. Peter of Oldenburg was a scholar and philanthropist. He was also noted composer of music. In 1857 he composed the music for Marius Petipa's ballet '' La Rose, la Violette et le Papillon''. The ''Pas d'Esclave'' from the ballet '' Le Corsaire'', which is taken from his score for this work, is still heard in theatres all over the world. Early life Duke Peter was born on 26 August 1812 in Yaroslavl, Russia. His father, Duke George, who was only the second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich Of Russia (1831–1891)
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (russian: Великий князь Николай Николаевич; 8 August 1831 – 25 April 1891) was the third son and sixth child of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Alexandra Feodorovna. He may also be referred to as Nicholas Nikolaevich the Elder to tell him apart from his son, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856–1929). Trained for the military, as a Field Marshal he commanded the Russian army of the Danube in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878. Military career Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich was born on 8 August 1831 at Tsarskoye Selo in St. Petersburg. His father arranged for Nicholas Nikolaevich a career in the army. On the day he was born, he was appointed honorary colonel in the Life Guard Lancers and enlisted into the Life Guard Sappers battalion. A soldier most of his life, he first saw active service in the Crimea War, when he was in his early twenties, taking part in the battle of Inkerman (1854). Grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duchess Charlotte Georgine Of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
, succession = Duchess consort of Saxe-Hildburghausen , image = Charlottesahi1800.JPG , caption = The Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen, 1800 , reign = 3 September 1785 – 14 May 1818 , spouse = , issue = , issue-link = #Marriage and issue , issue-pipe = among others... , house = Mecklenburg-Strelitz , father = Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg , mother = Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt , birth_date = , birth_place = Hanover, Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire , death_date = , death_place = Hildburghausen, Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen, German Confederation , burial_date = , burial_place= , religion = Lutheran } Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Charlotte Georgine Luise Friederike; 17 November 1769 – 14 May 1818) was a member of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and a Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz by birth and a Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen through her marriage to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick, Duke Of Saxe-Altenburg
Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (29 April 1763 in Hildburghausen – 29 September 1834 in Altenburg), was duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) and duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1826–1834). Biography He was the youngest child, but only son, of Ernst Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, by his third wife, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar. Succession Frederick succeeded his father Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen in 1780, when only seventeen years old; because of this, his great grand uncle, the prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen, assumed the regency on his behalf, this regency only ended in 1787 at the death of Prince Joseph. Until 1806 he was subject to the restrictions of the imperial debit commission, which had placed the duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen under official administration, because of his predecessors' dissolute financial policy. In 1806 Frederick joined the Confederation of the Rhine, and in 1815 the German Confederation, under whose guarantee he gave 1818 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burgravine Louise Isabelle Of Kirchberg
, title = Princess consort of Nassau-Weilburg , image = Louisa Isabella Alexandrina Augusta von Kirchberg (1772-1827). Echtgenote van Frederik Willem, vorst van Nassau-Weilburg, en schoonzuster van Augusta Maria Carolina van Nassau-Weilburg Rijksmuseum SK-A-416.jpeg , caption = , reign = , reign-type = , coronation = , predecessor = , successor = , succession = , spouse =Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg , issue = William, Duke of NassauPrincess Auguste Luise Wilhelmine Archduchess Henrietta, Duchess of TeschenPrince Friedrich Wilhelm , house = Burggrafen von Kirchberg , father =Wilhelm Georg, Count of Sayn-Hachenburg, Burgrave of Kirchberg , mother =Countess Isabella Auguste Reuss of Greiz , birth_date = , birth_place = Hachenburg , death_date = , death_place = Vienna, Austrian Empire ''Louise Isabelle'' Alexandrine Augusta, Countess of Sayn-Hachenburg, Burgravine of Kirchberg, full German name: ''L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick William, Prince Of Nassau-Weilburg
Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (25 October 1768, The Hague – 9 January 1816, Weilburg) was a ruler of Nassau-Weilburg. He was created Prince of Nassau and reigned jointly with his cousin, Prince Frederick Augustus of Nassau-Usingen, who became Duke of Nassau. Frederick William died in January 1816, only two months before his cousin. Both men were succeeded by Frederick William's son, William. Family Frederick William was the eldest surviving son of Karl Christian of Nassau-Weilburg and Princess Wilhelmine Carolina of Orange-Nassau. Wilhelmine Carolina was a daughter of William IV, Prince of Orange and Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange. Anne was in turn the eldest daughter of George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach. Marriage and children On 31 July 1788 in Hachenburg, Frederick William married Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg (Hachenburg, 19 April 1772 – Vienna, 6 January 1827). The groom was almost twenty years old and the bride on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke Of Leuchtenberg
Prince George Maximilianovich Romanowsky, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg (29 February 1852 – 16 May 1912), also known as Prince Georgii Romanovsky or Georges de Beauharnais, was the youngest son of Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg and his wife, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1819–1876), Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia. Family and early life George's father Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg had traveled to St. Petersburg, eventually winning the hand of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1819–1876), Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, Nicholas I of Russia, Nicholas I's eldest daughter in 1839. Maximilian was subsequently bestowed with the style ''Imperial Highness''. As the son of a Russian grand duchess and an ennobled Russian prince ''Romanowsky'', George and his siblings were treated as princes and princesses of the blood, bearing the styles ''Imperial Highness''. After their father's death in 1852, Grand Duchess Maria M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dadiani
The House of Dadiani ( ka, დადიანი ), later known as the House of Dadiani- Chikovani, was a Georgian family of nobles, dukes and princes, and a ruling dynasty of the western Georgian province of Mingrelia. The House of Dadiani The first data about the family dates back to 1046 AD. Presumably, the Dadiani descended from a certain Dadi, of the House of Vardanisdze. Appointed as hereditary ''eristavi'' (dukes) of Odishi (Samegrelo) in reward for their military services, the family had become the most powerful feudal house in western Georgia by the 1280's. At that time, the branches of the family governed also Svaneti, Guria, and Bedia. In 1542 AD, Duke Levan I Dadiani became hereditary Prince (''mtavari'') of Mingrelia and established himself as an independent ruler. His descendant Prince Levan III Dadiani was forced to abdicate in 1691 AD and Dadiani’s relatives from the House of Chikovani, hitherto Princes of Salipartiano, inherited the title of Princes of Mingre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japaridze (noble Family)
Japaridze ( ka, ჯაფარიძე) is a Georgian noble family known from c. 1400. A family legend recorded by Prince Ioann of Georgia in his genealogical treatise holds it that the Jap'aridze descended from the Mongol (" Chingisid") officer in Racha called Jap'ar whose scions later converted to Georgian Orthodox Christianity and were ennobled by the kings of Georgia. They possibly held the Duchy of Racha between the disappearance of the Kakhaberidze and the establishment of the Chkhetidze (1273-1488). The Jap'aridze formed several lines: a princely one in the Kingdom of Imereti, and a petite noble branches in the kingdoms of Kartli, Kakheti, and Imereti. Bagrationi, Ioane (1768-1830)Japaridze (Princes of Imereti) ''The Brief Description of the Georgian Noble Houses''. Retrieved on December 19, 2007. Under the Russian rule, the family was received among the princely nobility in 1850. In 1882, Agrippina Japaridze (1855—1927), former Princess Dadiani married Duke Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly 1 millionDemographia: World Urban Areas , Demographia.com, April 2016 on an area of . Located on the , the southeastern coast of France on the , at the foot of the |
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Of Russia
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (russian: О́льга Алекса́ндровна; – 24 November 1960) was the youngest child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and younger sister of Emperor Nicholas II. Olga was raised at the Gatchina Palace outside Saint Petersburg. Olga's relationship with her mother, Empress Marie, the daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark, was strained and distant from childhood. In contrast, she and her father were close. He died when she was 12, and her brother Nicholas became emperor. In 1901, at 19, she married Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, who was privately believed by family and friends to be homosexual. Their marriage of 15 years remained unconsummated, and Peter at first refused Olga's request for a divorce. The couple led separate lives and their marriage was eventually annulled by the Emperor in October 1916. The following month Olga married cavalry officer Nikolai Kulikovsky, with whom she had fallen in love several ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Peter Alexandrovich Of Oldenburg
Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg (21 November 1868 – 11 March 1924) was the first husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, the youngest sister of Tsar Nicholas II. Biography Early life He was born in Saint Petersburg in the Oldenburg Palace (present-day site of Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts), the only child of Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg (1844–1932) and Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1845–1925). His mother was a granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia through Nicholas's daughter, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna, and his father was a great-grandson of Tsar Paul I of Russia through his paternal grandmother Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna. He was known by the name of "Petya".Phenix, p. 46 Marriage In 1900, he began to escort the 18-year-old Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna (1882–1960), the youngest daughter of the late Tsar Alexander III and younger sister to the reigning Tsar Nicholas II, to the th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
