As a result, some factions within Russia's monarchist movement do not support the couple's daughter Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, as the rightful heir to the Romanov dynasty ( see Line of succession to the Russian throne for further details of the controversy ).

The Russian Imperial Union Order, Russian nobles loyal to Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, also recognizes the union of Dacia and these Hereditary Commanders as the only legitimate guardians of the Russian Tradition of the Knights Hospitaller.

Vladimir is the father of Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia a disputed claimant to the leadership of the Imperial Family.

The marriage produced an only child, Maria Vladimirovna, ( born 1956 ), who has taken up her father ’ s claim as Russia ’ s de jure monarch.

Maria Vladimirovna Dolgorukova ( Мария Владимировна Долгорукова in Russian ) ( 1601 – 17 January 1625 ) was the first wife of Tsar Michael I of Russia.

Maria Vladimirovna died four months after her marriage to Michael, which took place in 1624.

" The position of the Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna as Head of the Imperial House is acknowledged by most serious Russian Monarchist organizations and by most of those Heads of Royal Houses which continue to maintain relations with the Imperial House.

Maria Vladimirovna was born in Madrid, the only child of Vladimir Kirillovich, Grand Duke of Russia, Head of the Imperial Family of Russia and titular Emperor of Russia, and Princess Leonida Bagration-Mukhrani who was half-Polish.

Maria Vladimirovna lives in France and Spain.

Following the discovery of the remains of Emperor Nicholas II and most of his immediate family in 1991, Maria Vladimirovna wrote to President Boris Yeltsin, regarding the burial of the remains, saying of her Romanov cousins, whom she does not recognise as members of the Imperial family ( including the grandchildren of Nicholas II's sister Grand Duchess Xenia ), that they " do not have the slightest right to speak their mind and wishes on this question.

On January 5, 2010, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna went to Istanbul, where she met with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople and Mustafa Cagrici, Grand Mufti of Istanbul.

Giorgi's cousin, Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia is, like him, a royal pretender.

Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia ( Russian: Georgiy Mikhailovich Romanov, Russian Cyrillic: Георгий Михайлович Романов ; born 13 March 1981 ) is the heir apparent to Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, a claimant to the disputed Headship of the Imperial Family of Russia.

George was born in Madrid in 1981, the son of Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia ( at the time styled HIH Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia ) and Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia, only child of Vladimir Cyrillovich, Grand Duke of Russia.

Andrei Mironov's parents Alexander Menaker and Maria Vladimirovna Mironova were known nationwide as a comedic duo.

Finally, there is the example of a Russian pretender Maria Vladimirovna who published a decree on 20 August 2010 to create the entirely new The Imperial Order of the Holy Great Martyr Anastasia.

The members of the association reject the claims of their cousin Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia that she is the current Pretender to the Russian throne, for reasons detailed in the article on the line of succession to the Russian throne.

While extensive, it by no means includes all of the House of Romanov or all Romanov descendants ; Maria Vladimirovna has never joined and neither did her late father Vladimir Cyrillovich.

His great-grandmother Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia had inherited all of the diamonds belonging to her mother, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, a collection renowned the world over for its lavish, exquisite breadth.

* Maria Vladimirovna Dolgoroukov ( d. 1625 ), first wife of Michael I

The headship of the Imperial Family is in dispute between Prince Nicholas Romanovich of Russia of the Nikolaevichi branch and Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia of the Vladimirovichi.

She was an active and outspoken advocate of the claims advanced by Vladimir and their daughter, Maria Vladimirovna, to be accepted as the legitimate Heads of the Romanov dynasty and de jure sovereigns of the Russian Empire.

Currently, also a German-born prince, son of Maria Vladimirovna of Russia, uses the designation Grand Duke George Mikhailovitch of Russia.

On 12 April 1574, he married Maria Vladimirovna of Staritsa, daughter of Vladimir of Staritsa, Duke of Staritsa.

In Florence on 8 September 1787 ( by proxy ) and again in Dresden on 18 October 1787 ( in person ), Anton married a second time with the Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria ( Maria Theresia Josephe Charlotte Johanna ), daughter of the Grand Duke Leopold I of Tuscany, later Emperor Leopold II.

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.

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.

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

Stretching of units can result in their thinning ; in fact, there is a location within the Maria Fold and Thrust Belt in which the entire sedimentary sequence of the Grand Canyon can be seen over a length of less than a meter.

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

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

* 1589 – Maria Magdalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany ( d. 1631 )

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

The heir general to Charles II was Louis, Le Grand Dauphin, the son of his elder half-sister, Maria Theresa, and Louis XIV of France.

** Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia ( b. 1899 )

* June 23 – Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Grand duchess of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach ( b. 1786 )

* April 21 – The death of Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovich of Russia results in a succession dispute between Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia and Vladimir's daughter Maria for the leadership of the Imperial Family of Russia.

* October 17 – Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, wife of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh ( d. 1920 )

* February 16 – Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Grand duchess of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach ( d. 1859 )

* 1734 – Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria ( d. 1776 )

Cenotaph to Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen | Maria Christina of Austria in the Augustinerkirche, by Canova

Of the cenotaphs and funeral monuments the most splendid is the monument to the archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, consisting of nine figures.

* 1736 – Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh ( d. 1807 )

* 1782 – Maria Luisa of Spain, Duchess of Lucca ( d. 1824 )

* 1724 – Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, German singer and composer ( d. 1780 )

* 1742 – Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen ( d. 1798 )

* 1425 – Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan ( d. 1468 )

* 1697 – Duchess Maria Karolina Sobieska of Bouillon ( d. 1740 )

In 1847, after Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma's death, it passed again to the Bourbons, the last of whom was stabbed in the city and left it to his Widow, Luisa Maria of Berry.