Pushkina, Natalia, Gräfin von Merenberg

NOBLEMAN (RUSSIA)
BORN 4 Jun 1836, St. Petersburg - DIED 23 Mar 1913, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes
BIRTH NAME Pushkina, Natalya Alexandrova
GRAVE LOCATION Wiesbaden, Hessen: Alter Friedhof, Platter Strasse (mausoleum)

Natalia Pushkina was a daughter of the poet Alexander Pushkin. She was known as Tasha. Aged seventeel, she married the much older Russian general Michail Leontiewitsch von Dubelt (1822-1900). They had three children and she was known in society as a great beauty, but the marriage was unhappy.

In 1862 she fled with her children from her husband, who by that time had gambled away her dowry and his own fortune. Sjhe lived in Hungary with her aunt Baroness Vogel von Friesenhof. But her husband followed her to Hungary in an attempt to bring her back to Russia. In 1864 she obtained a formal permit to live apart from her husband and on 15 May 1868 they were divorced.

She was now able to marry Prince Nikolaus von Nassau, whom she had met in 1856 when he represented Nassau during the coronation ceremony of Czar Alexzander II. Because th marriage was unequal she wasn't permitted to use the title of her husband, but she received the title of countess of Merenburg. They lived in Wiesbaden in 1869 and they had three children.

Family
• Son: Georg, Graf von Merenberg
• Husband: Nikolaus, Prinz von Nassau (1868-1905, London)

Images

The grave of Pauline von Nassau, Nikolaus von Nassau and Georg graf von Merenberg at the Alter Friedhof, Wiesbaden.
Picture by Androom (26 Jul 2018)

 

The grave of Pauline von Nassau, Nikolaus von Nassau and Georg graf von Merenberg at the Alter Friedhof, Wiesbaden.
Picture by Androom (26 Jul 2018)

 

Sources
• Theroff, Paul, The Descendants of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, Internet, 1996
“That Little Devil Tasha” – Pushkin’s Daughter – Part III | Awful Avalanche


Pusinelli, Anton

Published: 25 Oct 2020
Last update: 25 Oct 2020