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unusual facts about Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden



Charles de Steuben

Thanks his father's social contacts in the court of the Tsar, in the summer of 1802 he accompanied the young Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786–1859) and granddaughter of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, to the Thuringian cultural city of Weimar, where the Tsar's daughter two years later married Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1783-1853).

Charles Frederick

His great-grandson Charles Edward later succeeded to the family title as seventh Baronet.

Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp

Before a member of the family of Holstein-Gottorp was to sit on either the Swedish or the Russian throne, Duke Charles Frederick died in 1739 in the Saxon village of Rolfshagen.

Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden

Augusta Maria of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf

Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin

His eldest brother died in 1702, leaving only an underage son, Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, as his heir.

Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann

At first active as portrait painter, he was appointed a royal painter of the Grand Duke of Baden and dedicated himself to depicting Bavarian and Swabian peasant life.


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