I whanau a Nicholas i Gatchina Palace i Gatchina ki Grand Duke Paul, me Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna o Russia (née Sophie Dorothea o Württemberg). E rima marama i muri i tona whanautanga, i mate tana kuia, a Catherine the Great, a ko ona maatua te emepara me te emepara o Russia. Ko ia te teina iti o Emperor Alexander I o Russia, i whai i te torona i te 1801, me te Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich o Russia. E ai ki a Riasanovsky, ko ia, "te tangata tino ataahua i Uropi, engari he tangata ataahua hoki i pai ki te kamupene wahine, i te nuinga o nga wa me nga tangata".I te 13 o Hurae 1817, ka marena a Nicholas Charlotte Princess of Prussia (1798-1860), i muri mai i te ingoa Alexandra Feodorovna i tana huri ki te Orthodox. I whanau nga matua o Charlotte ko Frederick William III o Prussia me Louise Frederick o Prussia-Strecklenburg?
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