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Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

1854 - 1920

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Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, later Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess Vladimir "Miechen" of Russia (Russian: Мари́я Па́вловна; 14 May [O.S. 2 May] 1854 – 6 September 1920), also known as Maria Pavlovna the Elder, was the eldest daughter of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin by his first wife, Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz. A prominent hostess in Saint Petersburg following her marriage in 1874 to the Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, she was known by many as the "grandest of the grand duchesses". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin is the 321st most popular nobleman (down from 277th in 2019), the 1,347th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,285th in 2019) and the 51st most popular German Nobleman.

Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin is most famous for being the mother of the current Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ranks 321 out of 1,415. Before her are Prince John of the United Kingdom, Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, Richard, Duke of Burgundy, Bernard I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Louis, Count of Vendôme. After her are Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, John V, Duke of Brittany, Princess Auguste of Bavaria, Henry I, Count of Champagne, and Theobald V, Count of Blois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ranks 24. Before her are Paul von Rennenkampf, Salomon August Andrée, Albert Edelfelt, Moritz Moszkowski, Paul Natorp, and Léo Taxil. After her are Yan Fu, Georges Picquart, Alphonse Allais, Georg Kerschensteiner, Jean-Marie Guyau, and Hubert Lyautey. Among people deceased in 1920, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ranks 29. Before her are Eleanor H. Porter, Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria, Venustiano Carranza, Dmitri Ivanovsky, Nectarios of Aegina, and Max Klinger. After her are Abraham Kuyper, Prince Joachim of Prussia, Otto Gross, Mikhail Eisenstein, S. Ansky, and Fatali Khan Khoyski.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ranks 1,347 out of 7,253. Before her are Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1723), Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802), Til Schweiger (1963), Viktor Lutze (1890), Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), and Johannes Althusius (1563). After her are Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876), Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736), Friedrich August Wolf (1759), Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1704), Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (1447), and Wilhelm Müller (1794).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Germany

Among noblemen born in Germany, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ranks 51. Before her are Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal (1855), Henry the Middle, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1468), John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg (1589), George, Duke of Saxony (1471), Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671), and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833). After her are Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1704), Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1877), Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg (1684), Berthold, Duke of Merania (1153), Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont (1704), and Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1547).

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