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Empress Elisabeth Alexeievna of Russia (in Russian, Elisaveta Alexeievna), born '''Louise Marie Auguste, Princess of Baden''' (of the House of Zähringen) ( 24 January , 1779 - 4 May (O.S.) = 16 May (N.S.), 1826 ) was a daughter of Prince Karl Ludwig Of Baden and Amalia Of Hesse-Darmstadt . She was also the older sister of Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina Of Baden . Louise was thought of as a very beautiful woman and loved magnificent jewelry and clothes. Louise converted from the Evangelical faith to Russian Orthodoxy in Saint Petersburg on 9 May , 1793 (O.S.) = 20 May , 1793 (N.S.), receiving the name Elizabeth Alexeyevna (this name has several different spellings). Louise married Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich, the future Emperor Alexander I Of Russia (then the heir apparent of the then tsarevich) on 28 September , 1793 (O.S.) = 9 October , 1793 (N.S.) in Saint Petersburg at the Winter Palace , when she was fourteen years old and Alexander was seventeen. Alexander and Elizabeth had two children: After the last child's death, Alexander pronounced that there should not be more children because that was the will of God . When Alexander took a mistress ( Princess Maria Naryshkina ) and had children, Louise also took a lover, Prince Adam George Czartoryski (who was Alexander's friend). Later on in life Louise and Alexander became closer. She died almost a year after Alexander's death. |
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