Maria Feodorovna (Russian: Мари́я Фёдоровна) (25 October 1759 – 5 November 1828) was the second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia and mother of Tsar Alexander I and Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.
Maria Feodorovna was born in Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland) on 25 October 1759 as Princess Sophie Marie Dorothea Auguste Louise of Württemberg. She was a daughter of Friedrich II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg and his wife Friederike Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt....
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Maria Feodorovna (Russian: Мари́я Фёдоровна) (25 October 1759 – 5 November 1828) was the second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia and mother of Tsar Alexander I and Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.
Maria Feodorovna was born in Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland) on 25 October 1759 as Princess Sophie Marie Dorothea Auguste Louise of Württemberg. She was a daughter of Friedrich II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg and his wife Friederike Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt. Named after her mother, Sophia Dorothea, as she was known in her family, was the eldest daughter of eight children, five boys and three girls. In 1769, when she was ten years old, her family took up residence in the ancestral castle at Montbéliard, then an exclave of the Duchy of Württemberg, today part of Franche-Comte. Her younger brother Alexander of Württemberg was born there. Montbéliard was the seat of the junior branch of the House of Württemberg to which she belonged, it was also a cultural center and many intellectual and political...
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