Grand Duchess Maria

Grand Duchess Maria may refer to:

  • Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853-1920), Companion of the Order of the Crown of India
  • Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899-1918), Eastern Orthodox saint
  • Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (1819-1876), President of the Imperial Academy of Arts
  • Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786-1859), third daughter of Paul I of Russia and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg
  • Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1854-1920), Russian expatriate
  • Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890-1958), Russian nurse
  • Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (born 1956), grand ducal consort of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg
  • Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia (born 1953), disputed pretender to the Russian throne

Famous quotes containing the words grand, duchess and/or maria:

    What do you do in the Grand Hotel? Eat, sleep, loaf around, flirt a little, dance a little. A hundred doors leading to one hall. No one knows anything about the person next to them. And when you leave, someone occupies your room, lies in your bed. That’s the end.
    William A. Drake (1900–1965)

    Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.
    W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

    Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
    —Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)