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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 ...
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,...
Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich was the seventh child and fourth son of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna. He was born at Peterhof Palace (1832). Master of the ordnance and commander of the artiller...
Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich the Elder was the sixth child and third son of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna. Known as Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich the Elder, to distinguish him from his son, ...
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich was the fifth child and second son of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna. He was born in St Petersburg on 9 September 1827. Konstantin was a wilful and unruly child...