Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg

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Princess Alexandra
Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Russia
Alexandra painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, c. 1850
Spouse Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich
Issue
Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich
Olga, Queen of the Hellenes
Grand Duchess Vera Constantinovna
Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich
Grand Duke Dimitri Constantinovich
Grand Duke Vyacheslav Constantinovich
House House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
House of Wettin
Father Joseph Georg Friedrich Ernst Karl, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Mother Amelia of Württemberg
Born 8 July 1830(1830-07-08)
Altenburg
Died 6 July 1911 (aged 80)
St. Petersburg, Russia

Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Russia (8 July 1830 Altenburg – 6 July 1911 Saint Petersburg), born Princess Alexandra Friederike Henriette of Saxe-Altenburg was the fifth daughter of Joseph Georg Friedrich Ernst Karl, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and Amelie Theresa Luise, Duchess of Württemberg. She married Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, second son of Nicholas I of Russia on 11 September 1848. It was said that Alexandra looked so much like her husband's sister, the Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolayevna, who died in childbirth, that her mother-in-law burst into tears at their first meeting.

Konstantin and Alexandra had 6 children:


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