Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia
Elena Pavlovna was a grand duchess of Russia as the daughter of Paul I, the Russian emperor, and later became the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin as the wife of the Hereditary Grand Duke Frederick Louis (1778–1819).
Portrait by Vladimir Borovikovsky, 1796
Elena Pavlovna (on the right, in yellow) with her older sister Alexandra Pavlovna (on the left, in blue) on a portrait by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun from ca. 1795–1797, between the ages of 11 and 14.
Elena Pavlovna, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1802 at the age of 18 on Josef Grassi's portrait.
The Helena Paulovna Mausoleum, Elena Pavlovna's resting place in Ludwigslust, Germany
Paul I was Emperor of Russia from 1796 until his 1801 assassination. Paul remained overshadowed by his mother for most of his life. He adopted the laws of succession to the Russian throne—rules that lasted until the end of the Romanov dynasty and of the Russian Empire. He also intervened in the French Revolutionary Wars and toward the end of his reign, added Kartli and Kakheti in Eastern Georgia into the empire, which was confirmed by his son and successor Alexander I.
Natalia Alexeievna by Alexander Roslin 1776
Maria Feodorovna, portrait by Alexander Roslin
Paul I in the early 1790s
A statue of Emperor Paul in front of the Pavlovsk Palace
