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Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

1853 - 1920

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Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Марія Александровна; 17 October [O.S. 5 October] 1853 – 24 October 1920) was the fifth child and only surviving daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine; she was Duchess of Edinburgh and later Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as the wife of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She was the younger sister of Alexander III of Russia and the paternal aunt of Russia's last emperor, Nicholas II. In 1874, Maria married Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; she was the only Romanov to marry into the British royal family. The couple had five children: Alfred, Marie, Victoria Melita, Alexandra, and Beatrice. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia has received more than 1,321,814 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia is the 127th most popular nobleman (up from 129th in 2019), the 196th most popular biography from Russia (up from 213th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Nobleman.

Maria Alexandrovna was the daughter of Tsar Alexander II and the wife of Grand Duke Karl Ludwig of Hesse. She was most famous for being the mother of three emperors of Russia: Nicholas II, Alexander III, and Constantine II.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia ranks 127 out of 842. Before her are Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, Felipe VI of Spain, Haakon VI of Norway, Robert Curthose, Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal, and Mariana of Austria. After her are Chlodomer, Odo of France, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, Maria Goretti, Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, and Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia ranks 13. Before her are Carl Larsson, Chulalongkorn, Albrecht Kossel, Aleksei Brusilov, José Martí, and Vladimir Solovyov. After her are Ferdinand Hodler, Errico Malatesta, Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Alphonse Bertillon, and Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. Among people deceased in 1920, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia ranks 14. Before her are Alexander Kolchak, Max Bruch, Alexander of Greece, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Princess Margaret of Connaught, and Jeanne Hébuterne. After her are Anders Zorn, Svetozar Boroević, Rosalia Lombardo, John Reed, Dmitri Ivanovsky, and Inessa Armand.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia ranks 196 out of 3,262. Before her are Ivan Shishkin (1832), Christian Goldbach (1690), Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891), Vasily Stalin (1921), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), and Natalia Goncharova (1881). After her are Yakov Sverdlov (1885), Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876), Gennady Yanayev (1937), Gennady Zyuganov (1944), Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), and Alla Pugacheva (1949).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Russia

Among noblemen born in Russia, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia ranks 9. Before her are Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904), Alexander Nevsky (1220), Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878), Olga of Kiev (890), Dmitry Donskoy (1350), and Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882). After her are Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876), Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (1857), Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827), Daniel of Moscow (1261), Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860), and Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia (1843).

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