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Empress Maria Alexandrovna
Read more...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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Princess Ekaterina Dolgorukaya
Read more...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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