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Jacques Offenbach by Nadar, c. 1860s. La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein) is an opéra bouffe (a form of operetta), in three acts and four tableaux by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
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 Tatiana, 1914 Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, 1915. Tatiana was a famous beauty. She was tall, slender, and elegant. She had dark auburn hair, gray eyes, and fine features. Many viewed her as the most beautiful of the four grand duchesses and the one who resembled their mother most.
Grand Duchess Marie-Adélaïde ordered that the Grand Duchy's small army, which numbered under 400, [12] not resist. On the afternoon of 2 August she and Eyschen met the German commander Oberst Richard Karl von Tessmar on Luxembourg City's Adolphe Bridge , the symbol of Luxembourg's modernisation. [ 13 ]
Grand duke (feminine: grand duchess) is a European hereditary title, used either by certain monarchs or by members of certain monarchs' families. In status, a grand duke traditionally ranks in order of precedence below an emperor , king , grand prince , archduke , or prince-archbishop , and above a sovereign prince or sovereign duke .
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.
During this period, Luxembourg was allowed to retain its own government and political system, but all proceedings were overshadowed by the German army's presence. Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide stayed in power but due to her German-leaning attitude, lost the support of part of the population and the Allies. [3]
"Grand Duchess" is the most widely used English translation of the title. [9] 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 nicknames ...