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13 de mai. de 2020 · 59. Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna to a close friend, [whom Maria Aleksandrova refers to as “Milaia staraia Mu” (Dear old Moo); possibly Countess A. Tolstaia], 19 December (7 December O.S.) 1880, MRC Collection 3473. Box 2, file 09, folder 0014.
Maria Alexandrovna, Empress of Russia. after Franz Xaver Winterhalter albumen carte-de-visite, (1857) 3 1/4 in. x 2 in. (83 mm x 51 mm) image size Given by Algernon Graves, 1916 Photographs Collection NPG Ax38446
10 de mai. de 2023 · Since the 1870s, Maria had spent the autumn and the fall in the warmer climates of the Crimea and Italy. Her health worsened after two assassination attempts on her husband’s life in 1879 and another one in 1880. Empress Maria Alexandrovna died at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg on June 3, 1880, at the age of 55.
(Alexander and Ekaterina joined in a morganatic marriage, after Maria’s death in 1880). Her husband’s infidelity and the premature death of her firstborn caused deep pain to Maria Alexandrovna. The much weakened Tsarina died on May 27, 1880 and she was buried in the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul with full honors.
Maria Alexandrovna died alone in her bedroom on the night of 8 June 1880. Countess Alexandra Tolstaya, her lady-in-waiting, wrote: “The angel of death came for her quite quietly, while the whole house slept. No one, not even the surrounding nurses, could state the exact moment when her dear soul departed the earth.”
Maria Alexandrovna ( Russian: Мария Александровна ), born Princess Wilhelmine Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (8 August 1824 – 3 June 1880), was Empress of Russia as the first wife of Emperor Alexander II. Marie was legally the daughter of Ludwig II, Grand Duke of Hesse, and of Princess Wilhelmine of Baden. She was given a good ...
Há 5 dias · Maria Alexandrovna, Empress of Russia. by Franz Backofen. albumen carte-de-visite, early-mid 1860s. NPG x134416. Find out more >. Buy a print. Buy as a greetings card. Use this image. 'Upwards of five hundred photographic portraits of the most celebrated personages of the age'.
