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The family's summer residence was situated at Étupes. Montbéliard not only was the seat of the junior branch of the House of Württemberg, but a cultural center frequented by many intellectual and political figures. Sophie Dorothea's education was better than average, to the point that she cultivated her skills with great enthusiasm.
Duke Alexander of Württemberg (24 April 1771 – 4 July 1833) [1] was a Duke of Württemberg and son of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg and Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt. His sister Sophie Dorothea married Tsar Paul I of Russia .
Maria Feodorovna was the name taken by two distinct Russian empresses of originally German and Danish ethnicity: . Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) (1759–1828), daughter of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg; wife of Emperor Paul I of Russia
Friederike was a daughter of Margrave Frederick William of Brandenburg-Schwedt and Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia.Her mother was a sister of Frederick the Great.Her siblings included Elisabeth Louise, Princess Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia and Philippine, Landgravine of Hesse-Cassel.
She also spent time in Stuttgart, with her own family. She engaged in a big correspondence with various friends and intellectuals, as well as making trips and meeting them in person, among them Ernest Renan , Julius von Mohl , Leopold von Ranke and John Lothrop Motley , many of whom expressed admiration for her intellect. [ 2 ]
Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle (15 September 1666 – 13 November 1726) was the repudiated wife of future King George I of Great Britain.The union with George, her first cousin, was a marriage of state, arranged by her father George William, her father-in-law the Elector of Hanover, and her mother-in-law, Electress Sophia of Hanover, first cousin of King Charles II of England.
At that time, the Empress of Russia, Catherine II, and the Austrian Emperor, Joseph II, were forging a new alliance, which would be sealed by a marriage between Elisabeth of Württemberg (younger sister of both Frederick and Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg), who was married to Tsesarevich Paul, future Emperor of Russia) and ...
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia by Christina Robertson. Grand Duchess Olga of Russia was born on 11 September 1822 in St. Petersburg, Russia.Her father was Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, the son of Emperor Paul I of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (née Duchess Sophia Dorothea of Württemberg).