Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm | |
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Born |
Biebrich |
20 September 1832
Died | 17 September 1905 Wiesbaden |
(aged 72)
Spouse | Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina (m. 1868) |
Issue |
Sophie, Countess de Torby Alexandrine of Merenberg Georg of Merenberg |
House | House of Nassau-Weilburg |
Father | William, Duke of Nassau |
Mother | Princess Pauline of Württemberg |
Religion | Calvinism |
Nikolaus Wilhelm, Prince of Nassau (Biebrich, 20 September 1832 - Wiesbaden, 17 September 1905), was the only son of William, Duke of Nassau by his second wife Princess Pauline of Württemberg.
He married morganatically in London on 1 July 1868 Natalya Alexandrovna Pushkina (Saint Petersburg, 4 June 1836 - Cannes, 23 March 1913). She was the daughter of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin and wife Natalya Nikolaevna Goncharova, and a descendant of Abram Petrovich Gannibal and Petro Doroshenko, Hetman of Ukrainian Cossacks, in turn grandson of Mykhailo Doroshenko. She was divorced from Russian General Mikhail Leontievich von Dubelt, by whom she had a daughter. In 1868, George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont created her Countess von Merenberg.
They had three children: