Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1819–1876)
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (. * 6 Augustjul / August 18 1819greg in the summer palace of Pavlovsk, . † 9 Februarjul / February 21 1876greg in Saint Petersburg.. ) Was the eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas I Pavlovich of Russia and its wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, who had been born a Prussian Princess Charlotte.
Life
Although Maximilian de Beauharnais was not seen as a good match for a Tsarevna, but since Maria had announced that she would not get married if she could not stay in Russia, her father agreed to the marriage.
In 1852 the family was next to her title of " Bavarian dukes of Leuchtenberg ," which they had been awarded by the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph, assigned to the title of Prince or Princess Romanovsky. On July 14, 1839, she married in St. Petersburg Maximilian 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg from the family Beauharnais. From the joint connecting seven children were born:
- Alexandra Maximilianowna (1840-1843)
- Maria Maximilianowna (1841-1914)
- Nicholas Maximilianowitsch (1843-1891), 4th Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince Romanovsky
- Eugenia Maximilianowna (1845-1925)
- Maximilianowitsch Eugen (1847-1901), 5th Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince Romanovsky
- Sergei Maximilanowitsch (1849-1877) fallen in the Russian- Turkish War
- Georgi Maximilianowitsch (1852-1912), 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince Romanovsky
Marija's husband Maximilian died in 1852 and four years later, Marija went again a marriage, this time with the Count Gregori Aleksandrovich Stroganoff, with whom she had a daughter, Helene ( 1861-1908 ). Mary was very artistic and her younger sister, Olga, Queen of Württemberg, once said of her: " Oh, she has more talent and ability than the rest of us [ siblings ] together if she had more strength of character yet. "