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grand duchess maria nikolaevna , c. 1914 . nicholas ii of russia house of holstein-gottorp-romanov 17 july 1918 alexandra feodorovna peterhof palace , saint petersburg , russian empire ipatiev house , yekaterinburg , russian sfsr july 17 , 1998 peter federation and paul cathedral , saint petersburg , russian russian orthodox 250px 26 june 1899 maria nikolaevna 1914.jpg grand 1918 -rrb-
 duchess maria nikolaevna of russia -lrb- 1899 -- grand duchess maria nikolaevna
grand duchess maria nikolaevna of russia -lrb- 1899 -- article_title_10:1918 article_title_11:-rrb-

grand duchess maria nikolaevna of russia -lrb- `` maria nikolaevna romanova '' ; russian : Великая Княжна Мария Николаевна , -- july 17 , 1918 -rrb- was the third daughter of tsar nicholas ii of russia and tsarina alexandra fyodorovna -lrb- alix of hesse -rrb- .
in 1900 and later , her birthday came on june 27 new style .
her murder following the russian revolution of 1917 resulted in her canonization as a passion bearer by the russian orthodox church .
during 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 .
throughout her lifetime she was noted for her interest in the lives of the soldiers .
the flirtatious maria had a number of innocent crushes on the young men she met , beginning in early childhood .
she hoped to marry and have a large family .
she was an elder sister of the famous grand duchess anastasia nikolaevna of russia , whose alleged escape from the assassination of the imperial family was rumored for nearly 90 years .
however , it was later proven that anastasia did not escape .
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 , further remains were discovered in 2007 , and dna analysis subsequently proved that the entire imperial family had been murdered in 1918 .
