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  • Grigory Orlov

    Grigory Orlov came from an undistinguished family of noblemen and served in the guards. He and his brothers helped Catherine the Great to seize the throne from Peter III in 1762. Orlov was awarded th...

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  • Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna

    Princess Victoria Alix Helena Louise Beatrice of Hesse was born at the New Palace in Darmstadt on 6 June 1872. She was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and Princess...

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  • Empress Maria Fyodorovna

    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 ...

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  • Empress Elizabeth Alexeyevna

    Princess Luise Marie Auguste of Baden was the third child and third daughter of Prince Karl Ludwig of Baden and Princess Friederike Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was born in Karlsruhe on 24 January ...

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  • Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna

    In 1817, the future Tsar Nicholas I married the nineteen-year-old daughter of King Frederick William III of Prussia, Princess Fredericke Luise Charlotte Wilhelmine, who converted to Orthodoxy as Alex...

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  • Empress Maria Alexandrovna

    Princess Maximiliane Wilhelmine Auguste Sophie Marie of Hesse was born in Darmstadt on 8 August 1824. It was widely rumoured that the girl was not really the daughter of Grand Duke Louis II, but the ...

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  • Empress Maria Fyodorovna

    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...

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  • Princess Ekaterina Dolgorukaya

    Princess Ekaterina Dolgorukaya was born in Moscow on 14 November 1847 in the family of Prince Mikhail Dolgorukov and Vera Vishnevskaya. After the bankruptcy of her father in 1859, she and her sister ...

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  • Grand Duchess Anna Mikhailovna

    Grand Duchess Anna Mikhailovna was the second child and second daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich and Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna. She was born in Moscow on 27 October 1834 and died in St Pete...

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  • Grand Duchess Alexandra Mikhailovna

    Grand Duchess Alexandra Mikhailovna was the fourth child and fourth daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich and Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna. She was born in Moscow on 28 January 1831 and died in Mo...

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