John V, Count of Oldenburg
John V, Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst (also counted as John XIV, including also non-ruling namesake siblings; 1460, Oldenburg – 10 February 1526, Oldenburg) was a member of the House of Oldenburg.
He was the ruling Count of Oldenburg from 1500 to 1526.
His parents were Gerhard VI, Count of Oldenburg and Adelheid of Tecklenburg.
Alfred Fedetsky
Alfred Konstantinovich Fedetsky( 1857, Zhitomir, Russian Empire, now Ukraine, — 21 July 1902, Minsk, Russian Empire, now Belarus) was a prominent Russian photographer and filmmaker of Polish descent, who authored numerous portraits of famous Russian people( Aivazovsky, Tchaikovsky, Ioann of Kronstadt, among many others) as well as members of the Imperial family.
He was the personal photographer of Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg.
Working mostly in Kharkov, Fedetsky was also a pioneering cinematographer.
His is credited with being the first Russian to shoot the first ever Russian film( the Frenchman Camille Cerf preceded him by four months, with the film of the coronation of Czar Nicholas II at the Kremlin in May 1896) called" The Grand Transfer of the Ozeryanskaya Icon from the Kuryazh Monastery to Kharkov, on 20 September 1896".
John VII, Count of Oldenburg
Count John VII of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst( nicknamed" the Dike Builder"; 9 September 1540 in Oldenburg – 12 November 1603 in Oldenburg) was a member of the House of Oldenburg and was the ruling Count of County of Oldenburg from 1573 until his death.
His parents were Count Anthony I of Oldenburg and Sophie of Saxe- Lauenburg.
Grand Duchess Natalia Petrovna of Russia (1718–1725)
Grand Duchess Natalia Petrovna of Russia was the youngest daughter of Peter the Great and his second wife Catherine I.
Conrad I, Count of Oldenburg
Conrad I of Oldenburg (died 1347) was the Count of Oldenburg from 1344 to 1347.
He succeeded his brother, John III of Oldenburg.
He was the son of John II of Oldenburg and Hedwig of Diepholz.
Conrad married Ingeborg, the daughter of Count Gerhard IV of Holstein-Plön.
They had four children:
Conrad I of Oldenburg is also a male-line ancestor of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, King Harald V of Norway, and of Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and thus of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.
Anthony I, Count of Oldenburg
Anthony I, Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst( 1505 – 22 January 1573, Oldenburg) was a member of the House of Oldenburg and was the Imperial Count of the Counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst within the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation.
His parents were John V, Count of Oldenburg( 1460- 1525) and Anna of Anhalt- Zerbst.
Christian II, Count of Oldenburg
Christian II, Count of Oldenburg( died 1233) was a German nobleman.
He was the ruling Count of Oldenburg from 1209 until his death.
Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg
Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Russia (tr. ;
Born Duchess Alexandra Frederica Wilhelmina of Oldenburg; 2 June 1838 – 25 April 1900) was a great-granddaughter of Emperor Paul I of Russia and the wife of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, the elder.
Born Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg, she was the eldest daughter of Duke Peter of Oldenburg and his wife Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg.
She grew up in Russia in close proximity to the Romanovs as her father was a nephew of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.
Alexandra’s parents were artistically gifted and passionate philanthropists.
They provided a good education for her and inspired in Alexandra a life of service to those in need.
Alexandra married in 1856, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, the third son of TsarNicholas I and her first cousin once removed.
Alexandra, who had been raised in the Lutheran church, converted to the Orthodox faith, and took the name Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Russia.
The couple had two children: Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856–1929), the younger, and Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (1864–1931).
The marriage, arranged by the Russian Imperial family in an attempt to control the Grand Duke’s excesses, was unhappy.
She was plain, serious and liked simplicity.
Deeply religious and very involved in charity work, Alexandra founded a training institute for nurses in St Petersburg in 1865.
The same year, her husband began an affair with a ballerina, forming a second family with his mistress.
After the collapse of her marriage, Alexandra lived separated from her husband who expelled her from their household in 1879.
A carriage accident left her almost completely paralyzed and, in November 1880, Alexandra went abroad to improve her health, compelled by her brother-in-law Tsar Alexander II.
The following year, she asked her nephew, Tsar Alexander III, to allow her to return to Russia and she settled in Kiev.
She recovered her mobility and, in 1889, she founded the Pokrov of Our Lady Monastery, a convent of nursing nuns with its own hospital, to provide free treatment for the poor.
She dedicated the rest of her life to the work at the hospital.
In 1889, she became an Orthodox nun under the name Anastasia.
She died at the convent in 1900.
Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg
Princess Therese Wilhelmine Friederike Isabelle Charlotte of Nassau-Weilburg, (
Terezya Vasilyevna Nassauskaya; 17 April 1815 in Weilburg, Duchy of Nassau – 8 December 1871 in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria–Hungary) was a member of the House of Nassau-Weilburg and a Princess of Nassau-Weilburg by birth.
Through her marriage to Duke Peter of Oldenburg, Therese was also a Duchess of Oldenburg.
Christian, Duke of Oldenburg
Christian, Duke of Oldenburg( born 1 February 1955) is the head of the Grand Ducal Family of Oldenburg.

Question: Where did Duchess Alexandra Of Oldenburg's mother die?