Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau


Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau, was the only son of William, Duke of Nassau by his second wife Princess Pauline of Württemberg.

Marriage and issue

He married morganatically in London on 1 July 1868 with Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina. She was the youngest child of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin and his wife, Natalia Nikolayevna 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: