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When the future Paul I , son and heir of Catherine the Great, was widowed in April 1776, his mother quickly found him a new wife. Her choice fell on Princess Sophie Marie Dorothee Auguste Louise of W...
Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich was the tenth child and fourth son of Paul I and Maria Fyodorovna. He was born in St Petersburg in 1798. Master of the ordnance. Served in the Artillery Department (1819)...
Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna was the eighth child and sixth daughter of Paul I and Maria Fyodorovna. She was born at Gatchina Palace on 7/18 January 1795 and grew up at Pavlovsk outside St Petersburg....
Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna was the seventh child and fifth daughter of Paul I and Maria Fyodorovna. She was born in St Petersburg (1792). She died in St Petersburg and was buried at the St Alexander...
Grand Duchess Ekaterina Pavlovna was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Paul I and Maria Fyodorovna. She was born at the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoe Selo on 10 May 1788. In 1807, there was talk ...
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna was the fifth child and third daughter of Paul I and Maria Fyodorovna. She was born in St Petersburg in 1786. In 1804, Maria married Grand Duke Charles Frederick of Sachs...
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna was the fourth child and second daughter of Paul I and Maria Fyodorovna. She was born in St Petersburg in 1784 and married Grand Duke Friedrich Ludwig of Mecklenburg-Schw...
Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna was the third child and first daughter of Paul I and Maria Fyodorovna. She was born in Tsarskoe Selo on 29 July 1783. When Alexandra was thirteen, Catherine the Great...
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich was the second child and second son of Paul I and Maria Fyodorovna. He was born in Tsarskoe Selo on 27 April 1779. Even before he was born, his grandmother, Catherine ...