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Maria Feodorovna

1759 - 1828

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Maria Feodorovna (Russian: Мария Фёдоровна; Sophie Marie Dorothea Auguste Luise; 25 October 1759 – 5 November 1828 [OS 24 October]) became Empress of Russia as the second wife of Emperor Paul I. She founded the Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria. Daughter of Duke Frederick Eugene of Württemberg and Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Sophie Dorothea belonged to a junior branch of the House of Württemberg and grew up in Montbéliard, receiving an excellent education for her time. After Grand Duke Paul (the future Paul I of Russia) became a widower in 1776, King Frederick II of Prussia (Sophie Dorothea's maternal great-uncle) and Empress Catherine II of Russia chose Sophie Dorothea as the ideal candidate to become Paul's second wife. In spite of her fiancé's difficult character, she developed a long, peaceful relationship with Paul and converted to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1776, adopting the name Maria Feodorovna. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Feodorovna is the 215th most popular companion (down from 123rd in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from Poland (down from 105th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Companion.

Maria Feodorovna was the first wife of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and the mother of Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia.

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Among companions, Maria Feodorovna ranks 215 out of 784. Before her are Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Eleanor of Provence, María Isabella of Spain, Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, Hugh Despenser the younger, and Gülfem Hatun. After her are Faustina the Elder, Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, Anne of Bohemia, Constance of Austria, and Joanna la Beltraneja.

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Among people born in 1759, Maria Feodorovna ranks 9. Before her are Mary Wollstonecraft, Joseph Fouché, William Pitt the Younger, Robert Burns, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, and James Edward Smith. After her are Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Clotilde of France, William Wilberforce, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, and Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Among people deceased in 1828, Maria Feodorovna ranks 8. Before her are Francisco Goya, Charlotte, Princess Royal, Shaka, James Edward Smith, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Victor of Aveyron. After her are Kobayashi Issa, Alexander Ypsilantis, Franz Joseph Gall, William Hyde Wollaston, Jean-Antoine Houdon, and Karl Mack von Leiberich.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Maria Feodorovna ranks 168 out of 1,694. Before her are Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Rochus Misch (1917), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Jarosław Kaczyński (1949), and Andrzej Duda (1972). After her are Jan Potocki (1761), Maxim Litvinov (1876), Solomon Asch (1907), Georg Michaelis (1857), Benzion Netanyahu (1910), and Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889).

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Among COMPANIONS In Poland

Among companions born in Poland, Maria Feodorovna ranks 2. Before her are Marie Leszczyńska (1703). After her are Catherine Opalińska (1680), Sophie of Pomerania (1498), Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702), and Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1464).

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