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On 26 November 1847, there was an addition to the family of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and his wife, Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel, who lived in the Yellow Palace ...
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna was the sixth child and second daughter of Alexander III and Maria Fyodorovna. She was born at the Cottage in Alexandria in the summer of 1882, fifteen months after th...
Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich was the fifth child and fourth son of Alexander III and Maria Fyodorovna. He was born at the Anichkov Palace in St Petersburg on 22 November/4 December 1878. After Ts...
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna was the fourth child and first daughter of Alexander III and Maria Fyodorovna. She was born at the Anichkov Palace in St Petersburg on 25 March/6 April 1875. Two days...
Grand Duke Georgy Alexandrovich was the third child and third son of Alexander III and Maria Fyodorovna. He was born in Tsarskoe Selo (1871). He was the heir to the throne after the accession of Nich...
Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich was the second child and second son of Alexander III and Maria Fyodorovna. He was born in St Petersburg on 26 May/7 June 1869. Maria Fyodorovna wrote to her father,...