1930 Russian Imperial Antique Plate Grand Duchess Maria Royalty Signed Autograph
Handwritten signature by Marie Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, original signed autograph bookplate autograph. Original Bookplate autograph on paper (2.3/4 by 3.7/8). Book of the month club. The original items, is in fair condition with signs of wear and tear, some scuff marks, foxing, stains, edge wear/tears. Grand Duchess Maria was a paternal first cousin of Russia's last. Tsar & maternal first cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Her early life was marked by the death of her mother and her father's banishment from Russia when he remarried a commoner in 1902. Grand Duchess Maria and her younger brother Dmitri, to whom she remained very close throughout her life, were raised in Moscow by their paternal uncle Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and his wife Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
In 1908 she married Prince Whilhelm, Duke of Sodermanland. The couple had only one son, Prince Lennart, Duke of Smaland.
Later Count Bernadotte af Wisborg. The marriage was unhappy and ended in divorce in 1914.She married Prince Sergei Putyatin. They had one son, Prince Roman Sergeievich Putyatin, who died in infancy.
The couple escaped revolutionary Russia through Ukraine. In exile, Grand Duchess Maria lived briefly in Bucharest and London before she settled in Paris in 1920. In the 1920s, she opened.
In 1928, she emigrated to the US. While living in New York. She published two books of memoirs. The Education of a Princess. In 1942, she moved to Argentina where she spent the years of World War II. She died in Konstanz in Germany, in 1958. We will try to describe these items to the best of our ability and would not misrepresent anything intentionally. We list the defects, problems and imperfections we see on the items, but we can sometimes overlook something or make a mistake.