Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia

Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia (Russian: Мария Михайловна) (9 March 1825 – 19 November 1846) 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.

She was the first child of Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich and Princess Charlotte of Württemberg.

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.

The Grand Duchess died suddenly at the age of 21 on 19 November 1846 in Vienna in her father's arms.

In memory of her and her sister, Elizaveta Mikhailovna, who died during childbirth in January 1845, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna organized the shelters of Elizabeth and Maria in St. Petersburg and Pavlovsk.

Maria with her younger sister, Ekaterina
Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna in the 1840s