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Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia

1890 - 1958

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Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (Russian: Великая Княгиня Мария Павловна; 18 April [O.S. 6 April] 1890 – 13 December 1958), known as Maria Pavlovna the Younger, was a granddaughter of Alexander II of Russia. She was a paternal first cousin of Nicholas II (Russia's last Tsar) and Marie of Edinburgh (consort of Ferdinand I of Romania) and maternal first cousin of George II, Alexander, and Paul (all kings of Greece), Helen of Greece and Denmark, (second wife of Carol II of Romania), and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (consort of Elizabeth II). She was also both the first grandchild of George I of Greece and the first great-grandchild of his father Christian IX of Denmark. Her early life was marked by the death of her mother and her father's banishment from Russia when he remarried a commoner in 1902. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia is the 196th most popular nobleman (up from 236th in 2019), the 255th most popular biography from Russia (up from 391st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Nobleman.

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia was born Princess Maria of Hesse and by Rhine in 1859, the daughter of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and Princess Alice of Great Britain. She was the niece of Queen Victoria and the sister-in-law of Tsar Alexander III of Russia. She was married to Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the youngest son of Queen Victoria.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia ranks 196 out of 1,415. Before her are Maria Theresa of Savoy, Daniel of Moscow, Maximilian Sforza, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara. After her are Elizabeth of Austria, Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Queen Letizia of Spain, Frederick, Prince of Wales, Bertrada of Laon, and Germaine of Foix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia ranks 32. Before her are Franz Werfel, Kurt Student, Maria Goretti, Hermann Joseph Muller, Victor Lustig, and Giorgio Morandi. After her are Eduard Dietl, Fanny Kaplan, Karl Harrer, Ronald Fisher, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Rachele Mussolini. Among people deceased in 1958, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia ranks 22. Before her are Rudolf von Laban, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Maurice Gamelin, Lion Feuchtwanger, G. E. Moore, and Georges Rouault. After her are John Boland, J. G. Strijdom, Giacomo Balla, Kim Tu-bong, Edna Purviance, and André Bazin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia ranks 255 out of 3,761. Before her are Ilia II of Georgia (1933), Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (1857), Natalia Goncharova (1881), Sergey Shoygu (1955), Gennady Yanayev (1937), and Anastasia Romanovna (1530). After her are Aleksey Kuropatkin (1848), Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599), Alexandre Kojève (1902), Vasily Blyukher (1889), Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), and Johann Georg Hamann (1730).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Russia

Among noblemen born in Russia, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia ranks 12. Before her are Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878), Dmitry Donskoy (1350), Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882), Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853), Daniel of Moscow (1261), and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (1857). After her are Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827), Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860), Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia (1843), Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (1554), Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876), and Dmitry of Uglich (1582).

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