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'Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia' (''Александра Георгиевна''), née 'Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark' (August 30, 1870–September 24, 1891).

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Early life

Marriage and Children

Death

Titles from birth to death

Early life

She was born in Corfu, Greece. She was the daughter of George I of Greece and Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, herself the daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia.

Marriage and Children

When she was 19 years old, she was married to Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, the eighth child and sixth son of Emperor Alexander II and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. They had two children:

★ Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia

★ Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich.

Death

Seven months into her second pregnancy, Alexandra took a walk with her friends on the bank of the Moskva River and jumped directly into a boat that was permanently moored there, but fell as she got in. The next day, she collapsed in the middle of a ball from violent labor pains brought on by the previous day's activities. She gave birth to her son, Dmitri, lapsed into a fatal coma, and she died six days later.
Her husband later morganatically remarried Olga Karnovich.

Titles from birth to death

★ ''Her Royal Highness'' Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark

★ ''Her Imperial Highness'' Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia