A child believed to be Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (1819-76), in white dress with sash and pink ribbons at shoulders, frilled pink and white bonnet, holding a striped purple ball

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FEODOR ALEKSEEV (RUSSIAN, FL. C. 1830)
A child believed to be Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (1819-76), in white dress with sash and pink ribbons at shoulders, frilled pink and white bonnet, holding a striped purple ball
signed in Russian 'Alekseev' (lower right)
on card
rectangular, 4 x 2 15/16 in. (102 x 75 mm.), ormolu frame with floral and scallop surmount

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The Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (1819-1876), eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas I and sister of Alexander II, married Maximilien de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817-52) on 2 July 1839. Maria Nikolaievna made a second marriage in 1854, to Count Grigori Stroganov (1823-1879).

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