Category:Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse)

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Princess Maximilienne Wilhelmine Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (8 August, 1824 - 8 June, 1880) was a princess of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and, as Maria Alexandrovna (in Russian Мария Александровна), Empress consort of Alexander II of Russia. She was born at Darmstadt, the capital of the Grand Duchy, and died at Saint Petersburg. The Mariinsky Theatre and the city Mariehamn in Åland is named after her.

[edit] Children

Her children were:

• Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (30 August, 1842 - 10 July, 1849).
• Tsarevich Nikolai of Russia (20 September, 1843 - 24 April, 1865).
• Alexander III of Russia (10 March, 1845 - 1 November, 1894). He married Dagmar of Denmark, daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel.
• Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (22 April, 1847 - 17 February, 1909). He married Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, daughter of Friedrich Franz II von Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Augusta of Reuss-Köstritz. They were maternal grandparents of Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark.
• Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia (14 January, 1850 - 14 November, 1908). He married Countess Alexandra Vasilievna, Countess Zhukavskaya.
• Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia (17 October, 1853 - 24 October, 1920). Married Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second son of British Queen Victoria.
• Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (10 May, 1857 - 17 February, 1905). Married Princess Elizabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, daughter of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom.
• Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (3 October, 1860 - 30 January, 1919). Married first Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna, daughter of King of the Hellenes George I of Greece and Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna of Russia , and secondly Olga Valerianovna Paley.