Maria Nikolaievna, Grand Duchess of Russia

Grand Duchess of Russia Maria Nikolaievna
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Name	Maria Nikolaievna, Grand Duchess of Russia Gender: F
born on	6 August 1819 Jul.Cal. (18 Aug 1819 greg.) at 02:30 (= 02:30 AM )
Place	St.Petersburg, Russian Federation, 59n56, 30e18
Timezone	LMT m30e18 (is local mean time)
Data source	From memory Rodden Rating A Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	24°11' 22°53 Asc. 06°25'

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Grand Duchess of Russia Maria Nikolaievna (Daguerreotype, 1840s)

Biography

Russian Grand Duchess, as a daughter of Emperor Nikolai (Nicholas) I of Russia, and sister of Alexander II. She was an art collector and President of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg.

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna was noted for her formidable personality, her wit and her strong character. She was brave and inventive, appreciated novelty, and was almost indifferent to the opinion of high society. She was lively, energetic, talented and impulsive. In appearance and character she was like her father. She was Nicholas I’s favourite child and the one who resembled him most closely both in appearance and character. Like him she looked serious and severe. Her stare also brought to mind her father’s formidable gaze.

On 2 July 1839 she married Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg (2 October 1817 Munich – 1 November 1852). Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna had seven children from her marriage to the Duke of Leuchtenberg.

Maria Nikolaievna made a second marriage in 1854, to Count Grigori Stroganov (16 June 1824 – 13 March 1879). It was a morganatic union and was kept secret while her father lived. Officially the marriage did not take place until 16 November 1856, after Nicholas I's death. Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna had two children in her second marriage.

Grand Duchess Maria probably suffered either from varicose veins or from some sort of bone disease, and by the end of her life she had become an invalid. She died on 21 February 1876 in Saint Petersburg at age 56.

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Relationships

• parent->child relationship with Marie Maximiliane, Princess of Baden (born 16 October 1841)

• parent->child relationship with Nicholas, Duke of Leuchtenberg (born 4 August 1843)

• child->parent relationship with Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia (born 13 July 1798)

• child->parent relationship with Nikolai I, Czar of Russia (born 25 June 1796 Jul.Cal. (6 July 1796 greg.))

• spouse relationship with Maximilian de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg (born 2 October 1817). Notes: 1839-1852

• sibling relationship with Alexander II, Czar of Russia (born 17 April 1818 Jul.Cal. (29 Apr 1818 greg.))

• sibling relationship with Alexandra Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess of Russia (born 24 June 1825)

• sibling relationship with Konstantin Nikolayevich, Grand Duke of Russia (born 21 September 1827)

• sibling relationship with Michael Nikolaevich, Grand Duke of Russia (born 25 October 1832)

• sibling relationship with Nikolai Nikolaevich, Grand Duke of Russia (born 8 August 1831)

• sibling relationship with Olga Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess of Russia (born 11 September 1822)

Events

• Death, Cause unspecified 21 February 1876 (Age 56)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes her mother in Die weiße Rose Preußens: Das Leben der Charlotte von Preußen, Kaiserin von Russland 1798-1860 by Sabine Schenkel (BoD, 2013), p. 166: "... am 6. August, zwischen 2 und 3 Uhr morgens wurde ich glücklich von einer Tochter entbunden."

(Translation: On 6 August, between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning, I was happily delivered of a daughter).

Same account given in "Die Geburt Alexanders II," Berliner Tageblatt, 16 November 1896, p. 2.

Categories

• Traits : Personality : Courageous

• Traits : Personality : Emotional

• Traits : Personality : Humorous, Witty

• Traits : Personality : Personality robust

• Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Two)

• Family : Parenting : Kids more than 3 (Nine)

• Notable : Famous : Royal family (House of Romanov, Russia, by birth)

• Notable : Famous : Royal family (House of Beauharnais, by marriage)