movement. In this period, her articles appeared frequently in different publications including Vogue. At Bergdorf Goodman she created a hat collection. On 15 May 1939 she was interviewed live on the radio during The Lux Radio Theatre broadcast of Tovarich.Broadcast featuring Maria In 1941 the United States entered World War II as an ally of the Soviet Union. America's friendly alliance towards the Communist country repulsed her. After twelve years living in the United States, she moved to Argentina with the intention of creating a line of cosmetics with a friend, Countess Elisabeth de Brunière née Saroukhanoff, a Russian émigré who worked for Elizabeth Arden in Buenos Aires.Houston, Marie: A Grand Duchess adrift in a new world, p. 61 Last years In Argentina, Maria Pavlovna rented a small house with a garden in the barrio Norte in Buenos Aires and devoted her spare time to painting, even managing to sell several of her works. Argentinian newspapers published her articles about interior design, fashion, and art. The cosmetic line did not take off, but Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna remained in South America. There was a large Russian émigré community in Buenos Aires and she became close friends with the family of Prince Mestchersky, Prince Michel Aleksandrovich Gortschakov and his wife Princess Olga, née Orlov-Davydow. During weekends she used to go to "Los Leones" a huge property owned by Prince Karl von Auersperg and his wife Archduchess Elisabeth von Habsburg. In 1942, she received news of the death of her brother Dmitri in Davos, Switzerland. She grieved over his death. He was the only person she had really loved. In 1947, Maria Pavlovna's son, Lennart, came from Germany on a business visit that lasted several months. For the first time they genuinely got to know each other. Maria told Lennart that she had felt lonely all of her life due to her rootless childhood. She spent much of her adulthood looking for love, having affairs, and finding it hard to fill the empty spaces inside of her. Two years later, Maria Pavlovna returned to Europe, where, at the home of her son on the island of Mainau, in Germany, she re-encountered her first husband, Prince Wilhelm of Sweden, for the first time in many years. They departed as good friends. During the 1950s, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna stayed with friends or appeared unexpectedly in Mainau, in the house of her son Lennart,