Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859). Several collections of the institution benefitted of her patronage, among them the Grandducal Oriental Coin Cabinet founded in 1840 by the orientalist Johann Gustav Stickel (1805–1896). She also played an instrumental role in establishing the Falk Institute in Weimar. In her later years, Maria Pavlovna invited Franz Liszt to her court and appointed him "Kapellmeister extraordinaire" in 1842. In 1850, Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premiered in Weimar, but her growing deafness prevented the grand duchess from enjoying it. Issue Maria Pavlovna had four children by her husband, Charles Frederick of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1783–1853), three of whom survived to adulthood: Paul Alexander Karl Constantin Frederick August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (25 September 1805 – 10 April 1806) Maria Louisa Alexandrina of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (3 February 1808 – 18 January 1877), who married Prince Charles of Prussia (1801 –1883) and had issue. Augusta Louisa Catherine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (30 September 1811 – 7 January 1890), who became German Empress after marrying William I, German Emperor (1797–1888) and had issue. Charles Alexander Augustus John, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (24 June 1818 – 5 January 1901), who inherited his father's throne, married Princess Sophie of the Netherlands (1824–1897) and had issue. Letters Maria Pavlovna's letters to her maternal grandfather, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg written between 1795 and 1797 are preserved in the State Archive of Stuttgart. Her letters from between 1800 and 1859 are preserved in the "Maria Paulowna letters" collection of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives of Stanford University. Ancestry References Jena, Detlef, Maria Pawlowna. Großherzogin an Weimars Musenhof, Regensburg 1999. Ihre Kaiserliche Hoheit. Maria Pawlowna. Zarentochter am Weimarer Hof, ed. Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen, Weimar, Weimar 2004. Jeanne Huc-Mazelet, Je suis moi, ils sont eux. Lettres et journal d'une gouvernante à la cour de Russie, 1790-1804, :fr:Ethno-Doc, 2018, 256 p. (). (Jeanne Huc-Mazelet was at Maria Pavlovna's service). External links |- 1786 births 1859 deaths Russian grand duchesses Grand Duchesses of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Hereditary Grand Duchesses of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov Princesses of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 18th-century people from the Russian Empire 19th-century people from the Russian Empire 18th-century women from the Russian Empire 19th-century women from the Russian Empire Daughters of Russian emperors Children of Paul I of Russia