Cine s-a întâlnit cu Nicolae I al Rusiei?

Nicolae I al Rusiei (în rusă Николай I Павлович, transliterat: Nikolai I Pavlovici; n. 25 iunie/6 iulie 1796, Țarskoe Selo, Gubernia Sankt Petersburg^⁠(d), Imperiul Rus – d. 18 februarie/2 martie 1855, Sankt Petersburg, Imperiul Rus) a fost Împărat al Rusiei din 1825 până în 1855, și rege al Poloniei din 1825 până în 1831.

S-a născut la reședința imperială de la Gatcina, fiind fiul împăratului Paul I și al soției sale Sophie Marie Dorothea de Württemberg, rebotezată în Rusia ca Maria Fiodorovna. Era fratele mai mic al viitorului țar Alexandru I și al Marelui Duce Constantin Pavlovici.

Anna Maria "Marianne" Charlotta Koberwein née Rutenskiöld (Stockholm, 15 December 1791 - Pushkin, Saint Petersburg, August 2, 1856) was a Swedish and later Russian Empire courtier. She is known for her affair with Nicholas I of Russia.

She was the daughter of the Swedish nobleman Gustavus Adolphus Rutenskiöld (1758-1802) and daughter of a operasinger, cavalry quartermaster, actress Ulrika Charlotta Stenborg (b. 1772). She served as a lady-in-waiting to the Swedish queen Frederica of Baden, who was married to Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, and when Gustav IV Adolf was deposed in 1809, she continued her service to Frederica in Karlsruhe.

She was subsequently employed by Frederica's sister Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden), empress of Russia. At the Russian court, she became acquainted with, then heir presumptive and married, Nicholas I of Russia, with whom she had a daughter, Joséphine Youzia Koberwein (1825–1893): in parallel, she married in 1820's (Joseph) Vassiliévitch Koberwein (1789-1854), from whom she divorced soon after.

Joséphine Youzia Koberwein was born on May 12, 1825, in the Smolensk province. Officially, Yuziya is the daughter of Joseph Vasilyevich (Osip Ventseslavovich) Koberwein, an undercover police agent. On January 3, 1849, she married the painter Joseph Fricero in Marseille. Just like him, she was engaged in painting. They had four sons: Alexander (1850-1904), Nikolai (1853-1884), Michael (1858-1914) and Emmanuel (1861-1880), whose descendants still live in Nice. She died on February 23, 1893, in Nice. She was buried in the Fricero family grave in the Russian cemetery in Nice.

Varvara Arkad'evna Nelidova, (russo:Варвара Аркадьевна Нелидова) (1814 – 1897), è stata una nobildonna russa nota per essere stata l'amante dell'imperatore Nicola I di Russia.