Carte de visite Paul Frecker Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna was born at Pavlovsk on 18 August 1819, the daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. She married, firstly, Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, by whom she had seven children. After the death of her first husband in 1852, she married Grigori Alexandrovich, Count Stroganov (1824-1879) at St. Petersberg on 16 November 1853. By her second husband she had two more children. She died at St. Petersburg on 21 February 1876.
