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In 1895, Grand Duke Paul began an affair with a married woman, Olga Valerianova Pistolkors. He was able to obtain a divorce for her and he eventually married Olga in 1902, while the couple was staying abroad. As they had married defying Nicholas II’s opposition, the Tsar forbade them to return to Russia. Left fatherless, twelve-year-old Maria and e...

During the next two years, Maria’s aunt turned towards religion and charity work. Planning to retire from court and to form a religious order, Grand Duchess Elisabeth decided to find a husband for her niece. Shortly after Easter 1907, Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland the second son of King Gustav V of Sweden and Victoria of Baden visited St Pet...

After a honeymoon in Germany, Italy and France, the newlyweds went to Sweden, where an official ceremonial reception awaited them with the state flags of Russia and Sweden waving in Stockholm. In the beginning, the marriage looked successful. The couple set up their home in the Swedish countryside in the province of Södermanland. They spent the sum...

At the outbreak of the war, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna trained as a nurse. With Princess Helen of Serbia, the grand duchess was sent to the northern front, at Instenburg in East Prussia, under command of General Paul von Rennenkampf. For bravery under airplane fire, she was awarded the St George medal. In 1915, after the Russian withdrawal from E...

In December 1918, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna and her second husband arrived in Bucharest staying at a local hotel. In January 1919, they were given private apartments at the Cotroceni Palace as guests of the Romanian Queen. Tragic news came from Russia. The following month, Maria Pavlovna learned that her father, Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich, ha...

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna's arrival in New York City was greeted by the press with great enthusiasm and curiosity. She was photographed and interviewed a great deal. Accompanied by an American friend, she went as far as California spending three weeks in a ranch. In January 1929, while recuperating from an ankle injury she worked on her memoirs ...

In Argentina, Maria Pavlovna rented a small house with a garden in the barrio Norte in Buenos Aires and devoted her spare time to painting, even managing to sell several of her works. Argentinian newspapers published her articles about interior design, fashion, and art. The cosmetic line did not take off, but Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna remained i...

Princess Marie So­phie Fred­erikke Dag­mar was born on 26 No­vem­ber 1847 at her par­ents' res­i­dence in the Yel­low Man­sion, an 18th-cen­tury town house at 18 Amal­ie­gade, which is lo­cated im­me­di­ately ad­ja­cent to the Amalien­borg Palace com­plex, the prin­ci­pal res­i­dence of the Dan­ish royal fam­ily in the dis­trict of Fred­eriksstaden...

First engagement

At the end of 1863, as the daugh­ter and sis­ter of the kings of Den­mark and Greece and sis­ter-in-law of the Prince of Wales, Dag­mar was now con­sid­ered one of Eu­rope's most cov­eted princesses. She re­ceived a pro­posal from Crown Prince Um­berto of Italy, but was re­luc­tant to marry him be­cause she found him un­at­trac­tive. Her mother was also re­luc­tant to sup­port such a mar­riage as she saw a greater sta­tus in the prospect of Dag­mar mar­ry­ing into the Russ­ian im­pe­r­ial fam...

Second engagement and marriage

Alexan­der II of Rus­sia and Maria Alexan­drovna had grown fond of Dag­mar, and they wanted her to marry their new heir, Tsare­vich Alexan­der. In an af­fec­tion­ate let­ter, Alexan­der II told Dag­mar that he hoped she would still con­sider her­self a mem­ber of their family. Maria Alexan­drovna tried to con­vince Louise of Hesse-Kas­sel to send Dag­mar to Rus­sia im­me­di­ately, but Louise in­sisted that Dag­mar must "strengthen her nerves... [and] avoid emo­tional upsets." Dag­mar, who sin...

Maria Feodor­ovna was beloved by the Russ­ian pub­lic. Early on, she made it a pri­or­ity to learn the Russ­ian lan­guage and to try to un­der­stand the Russ­ian peo­ple. Baroness Rah­den wrote that "the Czarevna is form­ing a real, warm sym­pa­thy for that coun­try which is re­ceiv­ing her with so much enthusiasm." In 1876, she and her hus­band vi...

On the morn­ing of 13 March 1881, Maria's fa­ther-in-law Alexan­der II of Rus­sia was killed by a bomb on the way back to the Win­ter Palace from a mil­i­tary pa­rade. In her diary, she de­scribed how the wounded, still liv­ing Em­peror was taken to the palace: "His legs were crushed ter­ri­bly and ripped open to the knee; a bleed­ing mass, with ha...

On 1 No­vem­ber 1894, Alexan­der III died aged just 49 at Li­va­dia. In her diary Maria wrote, "I am ut­terly heart­bro­ken and de­spon­dent, but when I saw the bliss­ful smile and the peace in his face that came after, it gave me strength." Two days later, the Prince and Princess of Wales ar­rived at Li­va­dia from Lon­don. While the Prince of Wal...

Rev­o­lu­tion came to Rus­sia in 1917, first with the Feb­ru­ary Rev­o­lu­tion, then with Nicholas II's ab­di­ca­tion on 15 March. After trav­el­ling from Kiev to meet with her de­posed son, Nicholas II, in Mogilev, Maria re­turned to the city, where she quickly re­alised how Kiev had changed and that her pres­ence was no longer wanted. She was per...

In No­vem­ber 1925, Maria's favourite sis­ter, Queen Alexan­dra, died. That was the last loss that she could bear. "She was ready to meet her Cre­ator," wrote her son-in-law, Grand Duke Alexan­der Mikhailovich, about Dowa­ger Em­press Maria's last years. On 13 Oc­to­ber 1928 at Hvidøre near Copen­hagen, in a house she had once shared with her sis­t...

The Dag­marinkatu street in Töölö, Helsinki, and the Maria Hos­pi­tal, which also pre­vi­ously op­er­ated in Helsinki, are named after Em­press Maria Feodorovna. In the 1997 Amer­i­can an­i­mated film Anas­ta­sia, di­rected by Don Bluth and Gary Gold­man, Maria Feodor­ovna is voiced by An­gela Lans­bury.