Second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia and the founder of the Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria was the mother of Anna Pavlovna of Russia, the queen consort of the Netherlands following the evolution of the Dutch Empire in 1795.
Maria Feodorovna (Russian:  ; nee Duchess Sophie Dorothea of Wurttemberg; 25 October 1759  5 November 1828 [OS 24 October]) was Empress consort of Russia as the second wife of Tsar Paul I. She was the founder of the Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria. When the French Emperor offered to marry her youngest daughter Anna Pavlovna, Maria strongly opposed the proposed marriage. Anna Pavlovna of Russia (Russian:  ; Dutch: Anna Paulowna; 18 January 1795 [OS 7 January]  1 March 1865) was a queen consort of the Netherlands. With the armed support of revolutionary France, Dutch republicans proclaimed the Batavian Republic, modelled after the French Republic and rendering the Netherlands a unitary state on 19 January 1795. 
