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"Grand Duchess" is the most widely used English translation of the title. [10] However, in keeping with her parents' desire to raise Maria and her siblings simply, even servants addressed the Grand Duchess by her first name and patronym, Maria Nikolaevna. She was also called by the French version of her name, "Marie", or by the Russian ...
Born as Princess of Russia; adopted the style of Grand Duchess after her father's headship of the House of Romanov. Kira Kirillovna: Kirill Vladimirovich: 9 May 1909: 8 September 1967: Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (m. 1938) Born as Princess of Russia; adopted the style of Grand Duchess after her father's headship of the House of Romanov.
When one of the guards, Ivan Skorokhodov, who was smitten with the Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, smuggled a birthday cake to the grand duchess for her 19th birthday and was caught fraternizing with the same, Goloshchyokin had him arrested and tightened security. [7]
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Марія Александровна, romanized: Mariya Aleksandrovna; 17 October [O.S. 5 October] 1853 – 24 October 1920) was the fifth child and only surviving daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine; she was Duchess of Edinburgh and later Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as the wife of Alfred, Duke of Saxe ...
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899-1918), Eastern Orthodox saint; Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (1819-1876), President of the Imperial Academy of Arts; Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786-1859), third daughter of Paul I of Russia and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg; Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of ...
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna was born on 18 August [O.S. 6 August] 1819 in Krasnoye Selo in Saint Petersburg. She was the second of seven surviving children and the eldest daughter. [ 1 ] Her parents, Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna , born Princess Charlotte of Prussia, were devoted to each other and to their children.
Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1854–1920), wife of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia as Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, called "the Elder" Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark (1876–1940), wife of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia as Grand Duchess Maria Georgievna of Russia
Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna, Princess of Leiningen (1907-1951) cr. Grand Duchess of Russia ∞ Friedrich Karl, Prince of Leiningen (1898-1946) Princess Kira Kirillovna, Princess of Prussia (1909-1967) cr. Grand Duchess of Russia ∞ Prince Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (1907-1994) [2]