#princess maria maximilianova of leuchtenberg

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Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1841-1914).

She was the eldest daughter of Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg and his wife Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia. She married Prince Wilhelm of Baden. The couple's son, Prince Maximilian of Baden, was Germany's last Imperial chancellor.

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This charming group portrait depicts six of the seven children of the Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia (1819-1876), Duchess of Leuchtenberg and Princess Romanovsky, and her husband Maximilian de Beauharnais (1817-1852), 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince Romanowsky. On the Duke's death his children received the titles of Prince and Princess Romanowsky and Imperial Highnesses from the Russian Emperor Nicholas I Pavlovich (1796-1855).

Prince Nicholas Maximilianovich (1843-1890) served as a cavalry general and aide-de-camp general and was also a recognised mineralogist who did much to encourage development of geological studies in his post as president of the Mineralogical Society. After the Russo-Turkish war, Nicholas's weak health forced him to move abroad with his wife Nadezhda Sergeevna.

Prince Georgii Maximilianovich (1852-1912) also became an aide-de-camp and captain in the Russian Empress's lancers regiment. He married twice: in 1879 to Princess Theresa Frederika Olga of Oldenburg and in 1889 to Anastasia Nikolaevna, Princess of Montenegro.

Prince Sergei Maximilianovich (1849-1877) was captain of the prestigious Guard Preobrazhensky regiment and aide-de-camp to the Russian Emperor like his elder brothers until he was mortally wounded on reconnaissance duties near Iovan Shaftlik.

The eldest daughter, Princess Maria Maximilianova (1841-1914) married Wilhrlm, Prince of Baden in 1863.

Princess Evgenia Maximilianova (1845-1925) married Prince Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg.

Prince Evgenii Maximilianovich (1847-1901) became an infantry general and aide-de-camp to the Russian Emperor. In 1869, he married Daria Konstantinova Opochinina and, eight years later, Zinaida Dmitrievna Skobeleva.

Watercolor by Vladimir Ivanovich Hau (1817-1895).