Queen Louise

In Zelenogradsk, there are many places associated with the name of Queen Louise, the grandmother of the Russian Emperor Alexander II.

Louise Augusta Wilhelmina Amalia of Mecklenburg - Queen Louise was born on March 10, 1776 in Hanover. Queen Louise did not live a very long life, but became a symbol of the new rise of Prussia and the formation of the German Empire. A mother of 10 children, she died at 34, repeating the fate of her own mother, who also gave birth to 10 children, died at 29. In the descriptions of contemporaries, Queen Louise appears as a beauty with relaxed manners of communication, more befitting representatives of the third estate than the prim aristocracy. During her lifetime, Queen Louise became an object of almost cult veneration, which spread even more after her death.