↑"Profile at www.angelfire.com". Diarsipkan dari asli tanggal 25 March 2009. Diakses tanggal 23 October 2008. Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna (the elder), Duchess of Mecklenburg, the widow of the Emperor's uncle, the Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich. The Grand Duchess Marie, known as the "grandest of the grand duchesses" had refused to leave Russia on any ship that was going to dock in Constantinople for fear that she would be subjected to the indignity of delousing.
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Robert K. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra, 1967, Dell Publishing Co., ISBN0-440-16358-7
John Curtis Perry and Constantine Pleshakov, The Flight of the Romanovs, Basic Books, 1999, ISBN0-465-02462-9