Baroness Aurora Stjernvall (1808–1902). The bridegroom was so ill from rheumatism that he had to be carried to the altar. The morning gifts for both the young wife and her hometown were princely. Helsinki's orphan girls' craft school and the boys' Lancaster school, received a total of 30,000 rubles, and another 50,000 rubles as a dowry fund for well learning girls. The bride received a gold jewelry box with the world's seventh largest diamond attached to a platinum chain, the famous Le Sancy. Difficulties arose soon after the wedding. Demidov fell ill and refused to leave for Saint Petersburg. The court life disgusted him as much as financial matters. The couple spent almost their entire life together - though leading separate lives - about three and a half years at various health spas in Germany. Wife Aurora was allowed to visit Saint Petersburg alone to show her respect for the emperor Nicholas I in accordance with the etiquette and, no doubt, her genuine gratitude. When their son Paul was born in October 1839, Demidov had already agreed to a plan of returning to Saint Petersburg, where the palace on Bolshaya Morskaya Street was being renovated. Before the following summer, however, Demidov's health finally collapsed, and he died suddenly in Mainz in 1840 of heart failure. He was buried in Saint Petersburg, where from his son Paul transferred his father's remains in 1875 to the family mausoleum in Nizhny Tagil in the Vyysko-Nikolskaya Church (russian: Выйско-Никольской церкви), where also the ancestor, gunsmith Nikita Demidov is buried. Pavel Nikolaievich's tomb memorial by James Pradier was erected in 1844. Pavel and Aurora had one child, Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato (1839–1885), whose daughter Aurora was mother of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. Pavel also had an illegitimate son Nikolai (b. 1829) from a relationship with the Demidov Lyon trade representative's daughter Anette Bodin. References 1798 births 1840 deaths Pavel Russian commanders of the Napoleonic Wars Knights of the Order of Saint Joseph 19th-century businesspeople from the Russian Empire Burials at Tikhvin Cemetery