WOMAN and TIME: Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia

For donate https://www.paypal.me/womanandtime Maria Pavlovna Romanova (1890-1958) was a Grand Duchess of Russia, granddaughter of Emperor Alexander II and and great-great-granddaughter of Nicholas I.
Her father was an uncle of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II, her mother was a Greek princess and relative of the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Maria Pavlovna and her brother were brought up by the elder sister of the last Russian empress and the uncle of the last Russian emperor.
Her brother Dmitry Pavlovich was one of the assassins of Rasputin and а lover of Kogo Chanel.
Maria Pavlovna was a Swedish princess, the wife of prince Wilhelm and the mother of a Swedish prince Lennart Bernadotte (1909-2004).
She divorced her unloved husband in 1913. This was also very unusual in those times for the royal family.
During the First World War, she worked as a nurse.
The revolution killed her father, her second son, the aunt Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, the half-brother Vladimir Paley, the relatives.
In the emigration, she worked with Coco Chanel in Paris. Maria Pavlovna opened a quality embroidering and sewing textile shop called Kitmir.
She wrote memoirs, which opened the fashion for this type of emigrant literature.
She lived in Paris, London, New York, in Buenos Aires. She lost everything many times and she again began all over again.
She was a journalist, photographer, painter, wrote articles about fashion and interior design.
She saw the collapse of empires, but she did not lose herself.
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