The Head of the Russian Imperial House of Romanov, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna: Touches to a Biographical Portrait (on the 70th Anniversary of Her Birth)

The paper attempts to create a biographical portrait of the Head of the Russian Imperial House of Romanov, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna.The source base of the research was the collection of documents "Acts of the Head of the Russian Imperial House of Romanov, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna", published in Washington in 2023.The work is based on general historical (historicalcomparative, historical-systemic) and highly specialized (bibliographic) methods.The combination of these methods allowed, in the author's opinion, to create a lifetime biographical portrait of the Head of the Russian Imperial House of Romanov, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, and draw some preliminary conclusions.The author concludes that Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna was born in 1953 in the family of the Head of the Russian Imperial House.In 1969 she took the oath of allegiance to the country that expelled her ancestors in 1917.Despite this significant circumstance, Maria Vladimirovna carried and continues to carry her cross -the cross of service to the Fatherland.She met Russia almost immediately after the collapse of the USSR, in 1992.Over the subsequent period, despite the fact that her place of permanent residence is Madrid, she visited the former territories of the Russian Empire about 100 times, of which she was in the Russian Federation more than 80 times.Since the early 2000s Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna takes an active part in the public life of Russia.Her interests and affairs include issues related to caring for the Russian Orthodox Church, popularizing the history of Russia and helping compatriots.Historically, it was on these principles that what was previously called the Russian Empire stood, and the name of these principles was "Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality".