Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, Nicholas' cousin, wrote, "And so there's no Heir. The birth of a third daughter led to widespread disappointment in Russia. She was the third child and daughter of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra. Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, and Maria Nikolaevna in an official portrait taken in 1901. A funeral for the remains of Maria and Alexei to be buried with their family in October 2015 was postponed indefinitely by the Russian Orthodox Church, which took custody of the remains in December and declared without explanation that the case required further study the 44 partial bone fragments remain stored in a Russian state repository. Further remains were discovered in 2007, and DNA analysis subsequently proved that the entire Imperial family had been murdered in 1918. In the 1990s, it was suggested that Maria might have been the grand duchess whose remains were missing from the Romanov grave that was discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia and exhumed in 1991. However, it was later proven that Anastasia did not escape and that those who claimed to be her were imposters. She was an elder sister of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, whose alleged escape from the assassination of the imperial family was rumored for nearly 90 years. She hoped to marry and have a large family.
The flirtatious Maria had a number of innocent crushes on the young men she met, beginning in early childhood.
Throughout her lifetime she was noted for her interest in the lives of the soldiers. Her murder following the Russian Revolution of 1917 resulted in her canonization as a passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church.ĭuring her lifetime, Maria, too young to become a Red Cross nurse like her elder sisters during World War I, was patroness of a hospital and instead visited wounded soldiers. Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia ( Maria Nikolaevna Romanova Russian: Великая Княжна Мария Николаевна, 26 June 1899 – 17 July 1918) was the third daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
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