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Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia
Description
Wearing the sash of the order of St. Catherine and a garland of ivy leaves in her hair.
Miniature portrait, oval, 6.5cm h. (excluding frame), signed lower right R.C.
Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia – Александра Павловна (9 August 1783 at Saint Petersburg – 16 March 1801 in Buda) was the third child and eldest daughter of Tsar Paul I and his wife Maria Feodorovna. She was sister of Emperors Alexander I and Nicholas I. Her engagement to King Gustav IV of Sweden was called off at the last minute. In 1799 she married Archduke Joseph of Austria, the Palatine of Hungary. Her marriage was the only Romanov-Habsburg marital alliance that ever occurred.
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