Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, was Queen of Prussia and the first German Empress as the wife of William I, German Emperor.
Portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1853.
Augusta's mother Maria Pavlovna, a granddaughter of Catherine the Great, by Vladimir Borovikovsky, 1804.
Augusta's father Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from 1828 to 1853, by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, 1804.
Princess Augusta, by Carl Joseph Begas, 1838. Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Weimar.
Maria Pavlovna was a grand duchess of Russia as the daughter of Paul I, Emperor of all the Russias and Empress Maria Feodorovna and later became the Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach by her marria
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
…Emperor. A member of the Grand Ducal House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and closely related to the Russian Imperial House of Romanov through her mother Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, in June 1829, Augusta married Prince William of Prussia. The marriage was tense; Wilhelm actually wanted to marry his cousin, Elisa Radziwiłł, who was…
Portrait of Maria Pavlovna as a child, c. 1796
Maria Pavlovna on a medal by Angela Facius from 1854, made for the golden jubilee of her arrival in Weimar.