* 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.

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

** Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia ( b. 1897 )

** Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia ( d. 1918 )

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.

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia ( Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova ) ( In Russian Великая Княжна Татьяна Николаевна ), ( 29 May ( O. S.

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.

Grand Duchess Tatiana in 1904

Tatiana's title is most precisely translated as " Grand Princess ," meaning that Tatiana, as an " imperial highness ", was higher in rank than other princesses in Europe, who were " royal highnesses.

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna in a formal portrait taken in 1906

" According to a 29 May 1897 diary entry written by her father's distant cousin, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, she was given the name " Tatiana " as an homage to the heroine in Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin.

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

Grand Duchess Tatiana in 1910 during the family's summer cruise aboard the Standart.

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna in about 1911.

She wrote in her diary on 15 March 1910 that she couldn't understand the family's regard for Rasputin as " almost a saint " when she viewed him as only a " khlyst " Tyutcheva told Grand Duchess Xenia that the starets visited when Olga and Tatiana were getting ready for bed and sat there talking with them and " caressing " them.

Grand Duchess Tatiana with her mother in about 1913.

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna in the uniform of her regiment, the Vosnesensky ( Ascension ) Hussars in 1912 As a young teenager, Tatiana was assigned a regiment of soldiers, the Vosnesensky ( Ascenscion ) Hussars and given the rank of honorary colonel.

" Olga laughed at it long and hard ," the indignant fourteen-year-old Tatiana wrote to her aunt Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia.

When Jellicoe was promoted to First Sea Lord in 1916, Beatty succeeded him as commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet and received promotion to the acting rank of Admiral at the age of 45 on 27 November.

* Grand Cross of the Legion d ' Honneur of France-23 May 1919 ( Grand Officer-15 September 1916 )

Since 1809, the Grand Duchy had benefited from a customs organization, an independent domestic state budget, its own currency ( Finnish markka, since 1860 ) and the industrial progress during 1860 – 1916.

Puccini completed the score of La rondine, to a libretto by Giuseppe Adami in 1916 after two years of work, and it was premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917.

Jellicoe was in command of the British Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland ( 1916 ), history's largest ( and only major ) clash of dreadnoughts, albeit an indecisive one.

Admiral Jellicoe was appointed First Sea Lord in November 1916 and turned over command of the Grand Fleet to Admiral David Beatty.

****** HRH Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( 1822 – 1916 )

Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I ( German:, Hungarian:, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916 ) was Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, King of Croatia, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Galicia and Lodomeria and Grand Duke of Cracow from 1848 until his death in 1916.

The city was the site of one of the key battles between the Ottoman and Russian armies during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I which resulted in the capture of Trabzon by the Russian Caucasus Army under command of Grand Duke Nicholas and Nikolai Yudenich in April 1916.

It was in the Yusupov family's Moika Palace in Saint Petersburg that Yusopov, Grand Duke Dmitri and others murdered Rasputin on the night of 29 December 1916.

Altogether, between Jack Worrall's first Grand Final in 1904 and the peak of World War I in 1916, Carlton won five premierships and contested nine Grand Finals for one of the most successful times in the club's history.

On a sort of drunken whim, two decadent young princes, Grand Duke Dmitri ( Richard Warwick ) and Prince Felix Yusupov ( Martin Potter ), invite Rasputin to an opium party and kill him in December, 1916.

* 1916, 1917, 1918: During World War I the racecourse hosted the Grand National.

George W. P. Magee was a theatrical agent and manager who most notably managed Boston's Grand Opera House from the 1890s through 1916.

However, the slights against him by the Tsar's retinue continued ; when he was promoted to lieutenant-general in July 1916, unlike all other Grand Dukes who attained that rank he was not appointed as an aide-de-camp to the Tsar with the rank of adjutant-general.

He was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum in 1916, and was elevated to the title of koushaku ( 侯爵 ) ( marquis ) in the kazoku peerage system the same year.

* Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum ( 14 July 1916 )

* Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun ( 14 July 1916 )