* 1783 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia ( d. 1801 )

Grand Duchess Charlotte of Russia

Portrait of Grand Duchess Bianca Capello de Medici, by Allori, Dallas Museum of Art

* 1827 – Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia ( d. 1894 )

* 1842 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia ( d. 1849 )

* 1870 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia ( d. 1891 )

The Wedding of Nicholas II and Grand duke | Grand Duchess Alexandra Fyodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) | Alexandra Feodorovna, by Ilya Repin | Ilya Yefimovich Repin, 1894 ( Russian Museum | Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg | St. Petersburg ).

* 1784 – Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia ( d. 1803 )

In childhood he visited the Imperial Court of Russia at St Petersburg and became intimate with the doomed Russian Imperial Family, harbouring romantic feelings towards Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, whose photograph he kept at his bedside for the rest of his life.

Long after the execution-style murders of the Russian Imperial Family, Mountbatten was called upon to authoritatively rebut impostors ' claims to be the living Grand Duchess Anastasia, who had been his first cousin.

Until his own assassination in 1979, Mountbatten kept a photograph of Anastasia's sister, Grand Duchess Maria, beside his bed in memory of his youthful romantic attachment to her.

* 1912 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.

* 1786 – Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia ( d. 1859 )

* 1899 – Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia ( d. 1918 )

* 1825 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia ( d. 1844 )

* 1901 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia ( d. 1918 )

* 1860 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia ( d. 1922 )

* 1777 – Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte ( d. 1820 )

The core of the Lithuanian Land Force structure is the Iron Wolf Mechanised Infantry Brigade ( MIB " Iron Wolf ") consisting of two mechanized infantry battalions ( King Mindaugas and Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas battalions ), two motorized infantry battalions ( Grand Duchess Birutė and Lithuanian Grand Duke Kestutis battalions ), artillery battalion and Lithuanian Duke Vaidotas Forward support battalion.

This strategy had been elaborated with the approval of Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.

Throughout the war, Grand Duchess Charlotte broadcast via on BBC to Luxembourg to give hope to the people.

She converted to Orthodoxy and became Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna of Russia.

The 1986 NBC-TV miniseries Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, in which Olivia de Havilland portrays the Dowager Empress, represents the latter as considering a personal meeting with Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia.

From left to right, Grand Duchess Anastasia, Grand Duchess Olga, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarevich Alexei, Grand Duchess Tatiana, and Grand Duchess Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia ( 1899 – 1918 ) | Maria, and Kuban Cossacks

However, recent research shows that all of the Romanovs, including Tsarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Anastasia who had been thought to have escaped the Bolshevik attack, were killed.

** Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia ( b. 1901 )

* June 18 – Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia ( died 1918 )

* February 17 – A woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to a mental hospital, where she claims she is Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.

He also secured an alliance with the nascent Grand Duchy of Moscow by marrying his daughter, Anastasia, to the grand duke Simeon.

( See Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.

* In the 1950s, Anna Anderson claimed that she was Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.

Soon after the Russian Revolution, on July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their children Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexei were murdered by the Bolsheviks at the Ipatiev House in this city.

She was a younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia and an elder sister of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, all of whom were falsely rumored to have survived the assassination of the Imperial Family.

Grand Duchesses Tatiana, Maria and Olga in a formal portrait taken in 1900 Grand Duchess Tatiana's siblings were Grand Duchesses Olga, Maria, Anastasia, and the hemophiliac Tsarevich Alexei of Russia.

< center > Grand Duchesses Tatiana, standing, Maria, and Anastasia play on a swing during a summer cruise in Finland in 1908.

It sits between the cities of Grand Ledge on the west and Lansing on the east.

" The Park ", as it is often referred to, sits approximately 7 miles ( 11 km ) north of downtown Grand Rapids.

Disney is also known as " Disney Island " because it sits on an island at the southern shore of Grand Lake O the Cherokees.

The Grand Council (;, ), the legislature of the canton, sits in Chur, the cantonal capital.

Grand Valley was located on the northern side of the Assinboine, opposite the side of the river where present-day Brandon sits.

* The Masonic Grand Lodge of Massachusetts headquarters sits across from the southern corner of the Common at the intersection of Boylston and Tremont Streets.

This piece of land which sits alongside the Grand Union Canal has been turned into a small parkland known locally as the ' Secret Garden ', something the residents felt was missing from the largely industrial area.

The main campus of the University of North Dakota sits in the middle of Grand Forks on University Avenue.

At the extreme eastern portion of campus sits University Park which is operated by the Grand Forks Park District.

The Grand is home to GVSU's rowing team, and the crew boathouse sits parallel to the river on the Allendale campus's north side.

The municipality stretches from the foot of the Jura Mountains eastward over the valley lowlands of the Veyron River and the rise that Ballens sits on and then to the dry river valley of Grand Marais in the east.

Fergus is located north of Guelph and sits on the Grand River.

* The wreckage of the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan crash sits at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Arizona, Robertson Crash Laboratory where it is used by the students of the crash investigation class taught by Safety Science Professor William D. Waldock.

When the Grand Trunk Railway was built through where the town now sits, the station was named for the dense forest.

In a 15th-century manuscript illumination the sovereign Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller in Rhodes sits in state to receive a presentation copy of the author's book.

In the center of the Grand Atrium / food court, sits a full-size, authentic 19th Century Dentzel Carousel.

* On Lewis Hamilton's performance at the 2007 Bahrain Grand Prix: " Lewis just needs to go home and understand where he sits.

The vacant site in Detroit between Woodward and Farmer Street and between E. Grand River and Gratiot now sits atop an underground parking structure, with infrastructure already in place to have a building constructed above it.

Along with Disney's Polynesian Resort, the Grand Floridian sits on the shores of the man-made Seven Seas Lagoon near the Magic Kingdom.

He sits on the advisory board for the Darpa Grand Challenge Cornell Team.

Mirboo North sits on the Grand Ridge Road, a scenic route running from Seaview ( near Warragul ) to Carrajung ( near Traralgon ).

When the court sits to hear civil matters, it is called a Civil Court (, also called a Grand Instance Court ).

Qormi also became a refuge to many people from the Cottonera area, which was badly hit because this area sits off the Grand Harbour, and area which was fiercely attacked by the Axis powers.

Colorado National Monument sits on a ridge on the southwest side of the valley west of Grand Junction.