Maximilian de Beauharnais | |||||
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![]() Portrait by Karl Briullov, 1849 | |||||
Duke of Leuchtenberg | |||||
Reign | 28 March 1835 – 1 November 1852 | ||||
Predecessor | Auguste de Beauharnais | ||||
Successor | Nicholas Maximilianovich | ||||
Born | Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria | 2 October 1817||||
Died | 1 November 1852 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire | (aged 35)||||
Spouse | |||||
Issue | Princess Alexandra Maria, Princess Louis William of Baden Nicholas, Duke of Leuchtenberg Eugenia, Duchess Alexander of Oldenburg Eugen, Duke of Leuchtenberg Prince Sergei Georgi, Duke of Leuchtenberg | ||||
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House | Beauharnais | ||||
Father | Eugène de Beauharnais | ||||
Mother | Princess Augusta of Bavaria |
Maximilian Joseph Eugene Auguste Napoleon de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Prince Romanowsky (2 October 1817 – 1 November 1852) was the husband of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna of Russia and first cousin of Emperors Napoleon III of the French and Francis Joseph I of Austria. He was a grandson of Napoleon I's first wife, the Empress Josephine, by her prior marriage to Alexandre de Beauharnais.
A student of Moritz von Jacobi, he is known as one of pioneers in galvanoplasty and an expert in copper and bronze metalworks generally, as well as an art collector. He was the proprietor of the first locomotive works in Russia.