Queen consort of the Netherlands following the evolution of the Dutch Empire in 1795, Anna Pavlovna of Russia was the daughter of the second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia and the founder of the Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria.
Anna Pavlovna of Russia (Russian:  ; Dutch: Anna Paulowna; 18 January 1795 [OS 7 January]  1 March 1865) was a queen consort of the Netherlands. In 1795, the French revolutionary army invaded the Dutch Republic and turned the nation into a satellite of France, named the Batavian Republic. She was born in 1795 at Gatchina Palace, the eighth child and sixth daughter of Paul I of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna (born Sophie Dorothea of Wurttemberg), and thus was Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia. 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. 
