Chapter 2
Volume V

1
Essentials

Born: At St.Petersburg on June, 1838.
Christened: ?
Godparents: ?
Name day: April 23, o.st. / May 5 n.st. (43/509/4)
Nickname: Sasha
Parents: Prince Peter of Oldenburg and Princess Therese of Nassau.
Engaged: October 25th, 1855 n.st.
Converted to Orthodoxy: January 5, or 25, 1856 n.st.
Married: At Peterhof on February 6, 1856 n.st. Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievich of Russia.
Issue: (1) Nicholas, born at St.Petersburg on November 18, 1856 n.st. (2) Peter, born at St.Petersburg on January 22, 1865 n.st.
Widowed: On April 24, 1891.
Took Holy Orders: On November 3, 1889 n.st. at Kiev as Anastasia.
Died: At Kiev on April 26th,1900 n.st.
Buried: Kievo Pechersky Monastery, Kiev.
Relationship to author: Great Grandmother.
Principal residence in Russia: Nicholas Palace, St. Petersburg; later Mariinsky Palace, Kiev and Kievo Pechersky Monastery, Kiev.
Memoirs: None Apparently.
Diaries: None Apparently.
Biography: "Tsarstvennaya Inokinya" - Igumenya Serafima - Svyato Arhanghelo-Mihailovsky Jenskij Monastyr - Odessa - 1995. (Introduction to edited reprints of (1) "Velikaya Knyaghinya Alexandra Petrovna" edited by Dr. Levitsky in Kiev, in 1904 titled: "Eya Imperatorskoe Vysochestvo Velikaya Knyaghinya Alexandra Petrovna, v inochestve Anastasiya, Biographic sketch. (2) "Vospominania ob avgusteyshey stroiteljnitse Kievo-Pecherskago Jenskago Monastyra, Inokine Anastasii". - Kiev 1911. (3) "Dnevnik Poslushnitsy Kievo-Pokrovskago Monastyrya." (4) "Jivye Dushi" - by Prof. M. M. Tareev in "Religioznaya Jizn" - Serghiev Posad. 1910. (5) Brief Biography, in "Velikie Knyazya Nicholaevichi...." by Zoia Belyakova (8907)

Present Episodic Biography in 8 Episodes:
1. Essentials.
2. Introduction.
3. Early Years.
4. Unhappy marriage.
5. The Personality Summary of a Romanov Lady of Forty-Three
6. Solitude and Nunnery.
7. Events after the Abbess' death.
8. References.
In all about 9500 words and 12 images:
1. --- 1854 /5 - At time of engagement.
2. --- 1860/64? - With pearls and brooch.
3. --- 1884 - In black, without jewels, attending novice at her side. Identification questionable. Should be Abbess Mitrofania of the Pokrovsky Community.
4 --- 1895> - Standing in full monastic dress. Kamilavka ( black cap).
5. --- 1889 - On a couch. White scarf on head.
6. --- 1997 - Map of Kiev.
7. --- 1900 - Funerals.
8. --- 1997 - Pokrovsky burial ground. With Prince Dimitri Romanovich.
9. --- 1857? - Russian Court Dress with jewels and pearls.
10. --- 1895> - In chair. Monastic dress, Kamilavka. Full face.
11. --- 1865 - With son Peter.
12. --- 1855 - At time of engagement.

Immediate Family Tree
1 Alexandra

1st Generation
2 - Duke Peter of Oldenburg. 1812 -1881
3 - Princess Therese of Nassau. 1815 -1871

2nd Generation
4 - Duke Georg of Oldenburg. 1784 - 1812
5 - Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna of Russia. 1788 - 1819
6 - Duke Georg-Wilhelm of Nassau. 1792-1839
7 - Duchess Luise of Sachsen-Altenburg. 1794-1825

3rd Generation
8 - Duke Peter of Oldenburg. 1755 - 1829
9 - Duchess Friederike of Wurttemberg. 1765 - 1785
10 - Emperor Paul I Petrovich 1754 - 1801
11 - Empress Marie Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Wurtemberg) 1759 - 1828
12 - Duke Friedrich-Wilhelm of Nassau-Weilburg. 1768 - 1816
13 - Burggravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg-Hachenberg. 1772 - 1827
14 - Duke Friedrich of Sachsen-Altenburg. 1763-1834
15 - Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg. 1769 - 1818

4-th Generation
16 - Duke Georg of Oldenburg. 1719 - 1763
17 - Duchess Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg. 1722 -1763
18 - Duke Friedrich-Eugen of Wurttemberg. 1732 - 1797
19 - Markgravine Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt. 1736 - 1798
20 - Emperor Peter III Feodorovich ( Duke Peter Ulrich of Holstein-Gottorp )
1728-1762
21 - Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst - Empress Catherine II Alexeevna 'the Great' - 1729-1796
22 - Duke Friedrich-Eugen of Wurttemberg. 1732 - 1798
23 - Markgravine Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt. 1736 - 1798
24 - Prince Karl-Christian of Nassau-Weilburg. 1735 - 1786
25 - Princess Caroline of Orange. 1745 - 1787
26 - Burggrave Georg of Kirchberg-Hachenburg.
27 -
28 - Duke Ernst-Friedrich III of Sachsen-Altenburg. 1727 - 1780
29 - Duchess Ernestine of Sachsen-Weimar. 1740 - 1786
30 - Grand Duke Karl of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. 1741 - 1826
31 - Landgravine Friederike of Hessen-Darmstadt. 1752 - 1782

Close relatives of suitable age (+/- 5 years )
Brother:
Nicholas of Oldenburg -2
First Cousin:
Pauline of Wied -5

2
Introduction
--- In the chronological listing of events in the following chapters, important family occasions such as weddings and funerals are always noted. With births of the closest relatives, these were all occasions for visiting one's relatives. Are also registered family events occurring in childhood or adolescence since children were often taken along by their parents to meet relatives, as occasions to arrange suitable marriages and make friends of their age.
--- Identification of sources of Nicholas Romanov:
(HP) - Nicholas Romanov - Opinions, comments and sundry readings.
(From 1 to 9999) = Book property of Nicholas Romanov
(From 1 to 9999 + HP) - Nicholas Romanov comments complementing text of source.
(From 20001 to 29999) = Conversations recorded by Nicholas Romanov.
(From 30001 to 39999) = Book property of Nicholas Romanov. Temporary identification.
(40 & >>>> /...... ) = Documentation in archives of Nicholas Romanov.

3
Early Year

1838
--- Birth at St. Petersburg on June 2, 1838. of Princess Alexandra of Oldenburg, daughter of Prince Peter of Oldenburg and Princess Theresia of Nassau. Alexandra must have had a lonely childhood, as she almost completely lacked family companionship of children of her approximate age. Only one first cousin and a two-year younger brother Nicholas, a rather mysterious personality, a man who died unmarried in 1886. (HP)
--- Alexandra Petrovna grew up in the happy Oldenburg family. Prince Peter Georgievich and Princess Theresia led an exemplary family life, and looked carefully after the education of their children. Alexandra was happy to be involved in solving social problems of the poor. (8907)
--- I have been unable to find many other references to the early years of Alexandra of Oldenburg. (HP)

1848
--- Birth at St. Petersburg on April 17 n.st. of brother Prince George Petrovich of Oldenburg. (HP)

1850
--- Birth at St. Petersburg on May 9, n.st. of brother Prince Cosntantine Petrovich of Oldenburg. (HP)

1852
--- Birth at St. Petersburg on Marh 30 n.st. of sister Theresa Petrovna of ..................

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