* 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.

* Princess Brasova ( Natalia Sheremetyev-Romanov ) ( 1880 – 1952 ), wife of Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov

* George, Count Brasov ( 1910 – 1931 ), son of Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov and Princess Brasova ( Natalia Sheremetyev-Romanov )

Natalia Brasova, Countess Brasova (; born Natalia Sergeyevna Sheremetyevskaya ; 27 June 1880 – 26 January 1952 ) was a Russian noblewoman who married, as her third husband, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia.

Her parsimony was such that as a new Grand Duchess, she did not hesitate to take over the clothes of her husband's first wife and to dispute with the lady's maids the very slippers of the defunct Natalia.

The Princess of Baden learned Russian, converted to the Orthodox Church, took the title of Grand Duchess of Russia and traded the name Louise Maria Auguste for Elizabeth Alexeievna.

* 1917 – Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia ( d. 1992 )

Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievich of Russia bred countless Psovoi at Perchino, his private estate.

* Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia

The Grand Duchy had also become a vital source of raw materials, industrial products, food, and labour for the growing capital city of Russia.

The Russification of Finland and the crisis of governmental leadership in the country, following the 1899 imperial order, was the result of a collision between the ideologies of peripheral authority ( the Grand Duchy as a state of the Russian empire but a separate part of the Russian governmental system ) and central power ( an undivided Russia dominated by Saint Petersburg ).

This meant that some of the social problems associated with the industrial process ( such as those seen in England ) were diminished via control of the administration, but other problems arose due to the marked cultural differences between Russia and the Grand Duchy.

The economy of the Grand Duchy was dependent on the huge Russian market, and separation from Russia would create a risk of losing Finland's preferred position.

The disintegration and weakness of Russia induced an idea of " Grand Finland " among the more nationalistic factions of both the right and left ; a part of the Red faction had plans concerning the same areas ( Heimosodat ).

As Mongol power waned towards the Late Middle Ages, the Grand Duchy of Moscow rose to become the strongest of the numerous Russian principalities and republics, and would itself grow into the Tsardom of Russia in 1547.

In 1380, at Kulikovo on the Don River, the Mongols were defeated, and although this hard-fought victory did not end Tatar rule of Russia, it did bring great fame to the Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy.

* 1564 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.

* 1864 – Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia ( d. 1931 )

He led the Grand Fleet to two startling victories in 1904 and 1905, completely destroying Russia as a naval power in the East, and thereby contributing to the failed revolution in Russia in 1905.

Catherine's first war against the Grand Turk had ended in 1774 with a peace treaty quite favorable to her.

Truly, that Liberals should choose Louis 14, as a bogey-symbol of conservatism is grotesquely ironic, considering the Louis 14, character of their Grand Monarque, FDR: not only in his accretion of absolute power and personal deification, ( le roi gouverne par lui meme ), but in the disastrous effects of his spending and war policies.

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Twenty years ago her daughter Betsey Long, then 13 years of age, won the Grand Challenge Trophy, Children's Handling Class ( as they were called then ) at Westminster.

Colorado's Grand Canyon, probably the most famous landmark of the United States, can be the highpoint of your Western vacation.

Opera in the Grand Tradition, along with mah-jongg, seems to be staging a well-deserved comeback.

for example, a plan that fulfills the will of God, which advances the Kingdom of God, which involves social life as part of the Grand Design.

Jones came toward them fast, now, along the southern toe of the Reef, and the dogs could be heard plainly, Old John with his Grand Canyon voice outstanding above the others.

The Fulton County Grand Jury said Friday an investigation of Atlanta's recent primary election produced `` no evidence '' that any irregularities took place.

Hengesbach has been living in Grand Ledge since his house and barn were burned down after his release in 1958.

Secret Grand Jury indictments were returned against the pair last week, Detective Murray Logan reported.

She will receive the 1961 `` Oscar '' at the 24th annual Neiman-Marcus Exposition, Tuesday and Wednesday in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel.

Oh-the-pain-of-it, that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to the stage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.

Tooling through Sydney on his way to race in the New Zealand Grand Prix, Britain's balding Ace Driver Stirling Moss, 31, all but smothered himself in his own exhaust of self-crimination.

Sonates et Concerts Royaux of Couperin Le Grand occupy two disks ( LD056 and LD060 ) and reveal the impeccable taste and workmanship of this master -- delicate, flexible and gemlike.

It was paired with a Darius Milhaud opera, `` The Poor Sailor '', set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, a kind of Grand Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and gets done in by his wife.

Off Grand Isle, yachters often visit the towering oil rigs.

There lay Grand Fair's Quinzaine, his own young parents' graves, but new life and promise for his sons, grandsons.

The cold water currents contribute to heavy fog off the coast of eastern Canada ( the Grand Banks of Newfoundland area ) and Africa's north-western coast.

The most productive areas include Newfoundland's Grand Banks, the Nova Scotia shelf, Georges Bank off Cape Cod, the Bahama Banks, the waters around Iceland, the Irish Sea, the Dogger Bank of the North Sea, and the Falkland Banks.

* Noe, Kenneth W. Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle.

With Martina Hingis as her partner, she won Grand Slam titles in Australia in 1999 and 2002.

Meanwhile, Dr. Rieux, a vacationer Jean Tarrou, and a civil servant Joseph Grand exhaustively treat patients in their homes and in the hospital.