page_title: Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Maria Michailovna (1825-1846) Polski: Maria Michajłowna (1825-1846) Русский: Мария Михайловна (1825-1846) - дочь Михаила Павловича.
context_page_description: Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia was the firstborn child and first daughter of Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich, the youngest son of Emperor Paul I of Russia, and Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, the eldest daughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg, who took the name Elena Pavlovna upon converting to Russian Orthodoxy. Maria died, unmarried and without issue, at the age of 21 in Vienna.
context_section_description: She was the first child of Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich and Princess Charlotte of Württemberg. Her upbringing and education received increased attention and influence from her mother. Grand Duke Michael very much wanted a son, from which he could raise a soldier. But in his only surviving children were girls, whose upbringing he left up to his wife. However, Michael Pavlovich could not deny himself the pleasure of introducing one of his military items into their program, arguing that each of his daughters was (like his mother) the chief of any cavalry regiment. Michael introduced his daughters to the cavalry and infantry signals on the bugle and drum.
  In 1835 a children's magazine was published under the title Children's Library, dedicated to Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna (publisher AN Ochkin).
caption: Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna in the 1840s
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