Alexandra Vasilyevna Zhukovskaya

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Alexandra Vasilyevna Zhukovskaya

Alexandra Wassiljewna Schukowskaja ( Russian Александра Васильевна Жуковская , earlier German translation also Zukoffski ; born  November 11, 1842 in Düsseldorf , † August 26, 1899 in Wendischbora ) was a Russian lady-in-waiting . She became known through her association with the Russian Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich Romanov .

She was the daughter of the poet Wassili Andrejewitsch Schukowski and his much younger Baltic German wife Elisabeth von Reutern (1821-1856), the daughter of Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern . After the death of her father in Baden-Baden in 1852, her mother moved with her to St. Petersburg , where Alexandra, an orphan from 1856, grew up at the court of the Tsars. Around 1870 she had a love affair with the eight years younger Grand Duke Alexei, the fourth son of the Russian Tsar Alexander II (1818-1881) and his wife Princess Marie of Hessen-Darmstadt ( Maria Alexandrowna , 1824-1880), a daughter of the Grand Duke Ludwig II of Hessen-Darmstadt . He was a younger brother of Tsar Alexander III. (1845–1894) and an uncle of Tsar Nicholas II (* 1868) who was murdered in 1918 .

It is unclear whether a morganatic marriage occurred. Her son Alexei was born in Salzburg on November 26th, 1871 . The grand duke's father, Tsar Alexander II, disapproved of his son's relationship. He also did not succeed in obtaining a Russian nobility title for her and their son. On March 24, 1875, she became Baroness Seggiano in San Marino ; In the same year she married in on December 14, 1875 Munich Saxon lieutenant of the reserve Baron Christian-Heinrich von Wöhrmann, the son of the manor owner of the same Christian-Heinrich von Wöhrmann on Wendisch Bora.

Their son Alexei received in 1884 from his uncle Tsar Alexander III. the title of Count Belewski . In 1901 he added the name of his maternal grandfather and called himself Count Belewski-Schukowski ever since .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ So in Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser 30 (1880), p. 967