Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958)
| Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna | |
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| Duchess of Södermanland Princess Putyatin |
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Maria Pavlovna photographed in 1914.
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| Born |
18 April 1890 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died | 13 December 1958 (aged 68) Mainau, Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| Spouse |
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland Prince Sergei Mikhailovich Putyatin |
| Issue |
Count Lennart Bernadotte of Wisborg Prince Roman Sergeievich Putyatin |
| House | Romanov |
| Father | Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia |
| Mother | Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark |
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, known as "Maria Pavlovna the Younger" (In Russian Великая Княгиня Мария Павловна) (St. Petersburg, 18 April [O.S. 6 April] 1890 – Konstanz, 13 December 1958) was a grand daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and a paternal first cousin of Nicholas II, Russia's last Tsar and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh..
Her early life was marked by the death of her mother and her father's banishment from Russia when he remarried a commoner in 1902. Grand Duchess Maria and her younger brother Dmitri, to whom she remained very close throughout her life, were raised in Moscow by their paternal uncle Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and his wife Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
In 1908, Maria Pavlovna married Prince Wilhelm of Sweden, Duke of Södermanland. The couple had only one son, Prince Lennart, Duke of Småland later Count Bernadotte af Wisborg. The marriage was unhappy and ended in divorce in 1914. During World War I, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna served as a nurse until the fall of the Russian monarchy in February 1917. In September 1917, during the period of the Russian Provisional Government, she married Prince Sergei Putyatin. They had one son, Prince Roman Sergeievich Putyatin, who died in infancy. The couple escaped revolutionary Russia through Ukraine in July 1918.
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