Model of the monument to Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna, installed in Pavlovsk Park in 1815, designed by sculptor Martos. The monument depicts a genius holding a charming woman flying up, according to V. A. Zhukovsky, “more heavenly than earthly.” Alexandra Pavlovna – the Grand Duchess; the eldest daughter of Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich, and his second wife Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna.
Since 1799 – the wife of the Austrian Archduke Joseph of Habsburg, Palatin of Hungary. Having left his homeland, he was doomed to the hatred of the new family: by giving her freedom of faith, the Vienna court showed complete intolerance of Orthodoxy. March 4, 1801, Alexandra Pavlovna ended up in childbirth, having outlived her newborn daughter a little. Fast. in 1925 from the Shuvalov Palace Museum.