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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 ...
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (Russian: Мария Николаевна) (18 August 1819 – 21 February 1876) was a daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, and sister of Alexander II. In 1839 she married Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg. She was an art collector and President of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg.
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia (Russian: Мария Владимировна Романова, romanized: Maria Vladimirovna Romanova; born 23 December 1953) has been a claimant to the headship of the House of Romanov, the Imperial Family of Russia (who reigned as Emperors and Autocrats of all the Russias from 1613 to 1917) since 1992.
Born as Princess of Russia; adopted the style of Grand Duchess after her father's headship of the House of Romanov. Maria Vladimirovna: Vladimir Kirillovich: 23 December 1953: Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (m. 1976; div. 1985) Born after the abolition of the monarchy; adopted the style of Grand Duchess of Russia in pretense.
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 and Anastasia with wounded soldiers while visiting the hospital in the Feodorovsky Gorodok village, in about 1915. They served there daily during the war. During World War I, Anastasia, along with her sister Maria, visited wounded soldiers at a private hospital in the grounds at Tsarskoye Selo.
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Maria Pavlovna with her mother. Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna was born 18 April [O.S. 6 April] 1890 in Saint Petersburg.She was the first child and only daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia and his first wife, Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia, born Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark. [1]