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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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  • Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna

    Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna was the first child and first daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich and Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna. She was born in Moscow on 9 March 1825. She died in Vienna on ...

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  • Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mikhailovna

    Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mikhailovna was the second child and second daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich and Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna. She was born in the Moscow Kremlin on 26 May 1826 and na...

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  • Grand Duchess Ekaterina Mikhailovna

    Grand Duchess Ekaterina Mikhailovna was the third child and third daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich and Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna. She was born in St Petersburg on 28 August 1827. She marri...

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  • Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna

    Princess Friederike Charlotte Marie of Württemberg was born in Stuttgart in 1807. She received a brilliant education in Paris, studying at an exclusive school founded by Madame Campan, a former lady-...

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  • Eudoxia Lopukhina

    When Peter the Great was sixteen, his mother married him to the nineteen-year-old daughter of Illarion Lopukhin on 27 January 1689. Although her name was actually Praskovia Illarionovna, Peter’s moth...

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  • Maria Nagaya

    Maria Nagaya was a boyar’s daughter and the eighth wife of Ivan the Terrible. She married Ivan IV in September 1580 and gave birth to a son called Dmitry on 19 October 1582. Not long before he died i...

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  • Vasilisa Melentieva

    Vasilisa Melentieva was the seventh wife of Ivan the Terrible. She married Ivan IV circa 1575. Very little is known about her, except that she is rumoured to have been buried alive along with her lov...

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  • Anna Vasilchikova

    Anna Vasilchikova was the sixth wife of Ivan the Terrible. She married Ivan IV in January 1575. Two years later, she was banished to the Convent of the Intercession in Suzdal, where she allegedly die...

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  • Maria Dolgorukaya

    Maria Dolgorukaya was the fifth wife of Ivan the Terrible. She was born circa 1560 and married Ivan IV in November 1573. The marriage only lasted one day. In November 1573, Maria was pushed through a...

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