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Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

1853 - 1920

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Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Мария Александровна, romanized: Mariya Aleksandrovna; 17 October [O.S. 5 October] 1853 – 22 October 1920) was the sixth 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-Coburg and Gotha. She was the younger sister of Alexander III of Russia and the paternal aunt of Russia's last emperor, Nicholas II. In 1874, Maria married Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; she was the only Romanov to marry into the British royal family. The couple had five children: Alfred, Marie, Victoria Melita, Alexandra, and Beatrice. For the first years of her marriage, Maria lived in England. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia is the 173rd most popular nobleman (down from 134th in 2019), the 214th most popular biography from Russia (down from 208th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Nobleman.

Maria Alexandrovna was the daughter of Tsar Alexander II and the wife of Grand Duke Karl Ludwig of Hesse. She was most famous for being the mother of three emperors of Russia: Nicholas II, Alexander III, and Constantine II.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia ranks 173 out of 1,415. Before her are Henry II of Jerusalem, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal, Leopold III, Duke of Austria, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Maria Goretti. After her are Isabella d'Este, Jobst of Moravia, Setnakhte, Joan of France, Duchess of Berry, Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, and Galeazzo Maria Sforza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia ranks 14. Before her are Chulalongkorn, Carl Larsson, José Martí, Aleksei Brusilov, Vladimir Solovyov, and Ferdinand Hodler. After her are Errico Malatesta, Hans Christian Gram, Hussein Kamel of Egypt, Alphonse Bertillon, Katharina Schratt, and Princess Thyra of Denmark. Among people deceased in 1920, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia ranks 13. Before her are Alexander of Greece, Max Bruch, Robert Peary, Alexander Kolchak, Anders Zorn, and Princess Margaret of Connaught. After her are Rosalia Lombardo, Svetozar Boroević, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Inessa Armand, and Essad Pasha Toptani.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia ranks 214 out of 3,761. Before her are Mikhail Suslov (1902), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), Alexander Friedmann (1888), Sabina Spielrein (1885), and Ivan Kramskoi (1837). After her are Nikolai Vavilov (1887), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839), Vasily Blokhin (1895), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), and Johannes Blaskowitz (1883).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Russia

Among noblemen born in Russia, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia ranks 9. Before her are Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895), Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904), Olga of Kiev (890), Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878), Dmitry Donskoy (1350), and Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882). After her are Daniel of Moscow (1261), Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (1857), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890), Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827), Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860), and Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia (1843).

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