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'''Rob Brown''' (born on [[April 10]], [[1968]] in [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]) is a former [[professional]] [[ice hockey]] [[Winger (ice hockey)|right wing]] who played in the [[National Hockey League]] for eleven seasons between [[1987-88 NHL season|1987-88]] and [[1999-00 NHL season|1999-00]].
[[Image:Vera Konstantinovna.jpg |thumb|205px|Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia]]
 
Brown was drafted 67th overall by the [[Pittsburgh Penguins]] in the [[1986 NHL Entry Draft]]. His best statistical NHL season was the [[1988-89 NHL season|1988-89 season]], when he played on a line with [[Mario Lemieux]]; he set career highs with 49 goals, 66 assists, 115 points, 24 power play goals, 6 game-winning goals, and a +27 plus/minus rating.
'''Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia''' ([[February 16]] [[1854]] – [[April 11]] [[1912]], {{lang-ru|великая княгиня Вера Константиновна}}) was a daughter of [[Grand Duke Konstantine Nicholaievich of Russia]]. She was a granddaughter of Tsar [[Nicholas I of Russia|Nicholas I]] and [[first cousin]] of Tsar [[Alexander III of Russia|Alexander III]] of Russia.
 
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| ALIGN="center" | '''101'''
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| ALIGN="center" | '''16'''
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| ALIGN="center" | 19
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| ALIGN="center" | 79
| ALIGN="center" | 42
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| ALIGN="center" | 34
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| ALIGN="center" | 52
| ALIGN="center" | 91
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| ALIGN="center" | '''82'''
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| ALIGN="center" | 80
| ALIGN="center" | 24
| ALIGN="center" | 53
| ALIGN="center" | 77
| ALIGN="center" | 99
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| ALIGN="center" | 4
| ALIGN="center" | 13
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| ALIGN="center" | 29
| ALIGN="center" | 54
| ALIGN="center" | 83
| ALIGN="center" | 103
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| ALIGN="center" | 7
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| ALIGN="center" | 33
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| ALIGN="center" | 59
| ALIGN="center" | 15
| ALIGN="center" | 48
| ALIGN="center" | 63
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==International play==
Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia was born in [[St. Petersburg]] on [[February 16]], [[1854]], the fourth child and second daughter of the six children of [[Grand Duke Konstantine Nicholaievich of Russia]] and his wife Grand Duchess [[Alexandra Iosifovna]] (born Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenberg).
*Played for Team Canada in the 1988 World Junior Championships.
 
'''International Statistics'''
Grand Duchess Vera spent her early years in St Petersburg and in [[1861]], the family moved to [[Warsaw]] when her father was appointed Viceroy of [[Poland]]. Vera was a troubled child, prone to fits of anger. She suffered from spells and what was officially described as a “ nervous condition”. <ref> “Gilded Prism”: Greg King & Penny Wilson, p.37</ref>She became unmanageable and her parents decided to send her with her aunt, [[Olga Nicholaevna of Russia| Grand Duchess Olga]], Queen of [[Württemberg]] , who agreed to take care of her. On [[December 7]] [[1863]], Grand Duke Kosntantine and his wife arrived with nine years old Vera to [[Stuttgart]] entrusting her care to the childless [[Charles I of Württemberg|King Karl of Württemberg]] and Queen Olga. Officially this was ascribed to the more advanced medical treatment the child would receive in [[Germany]], but was also a way for Vera’s parents to hide the embarrassments of her illness in the Russian court. <ref> “Gilded Prism”: Greg King & Penny Wilson, p.37</ref> Queen Olga was happy to take care of her niece in spite of the difficulties and for Vera; her aunt eventually took the place of her mother. <ref> “Gilded Prism”: Greg King & Penny Wilson, p.37</ref>
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Queen Olga and her husband were devoted foster parents, but at the beginning, they did have little success in improving the girl’s condition. Vera was homesick and continued to be extremely difficult, to the point of being violent towards them. Periodically, Vera had to be brought under control by an army officer, and on more than one ocacasion she was locked up. <ref >''The Grand Duchesses'', Beeche, Arturo , p. 69.</ref> Karl went for long walks with Vera and red passages from the Bible to her in the evening. By [[1866]], there were still little improvement on Vera’s state, but Queen Olga persevered and with time, Grand Duchess Vera eventually outgrew her disruptive behavior.
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As a young woman, she was introspective, shy, but clever with an intellectual bent. She disliked ceremony and her physical appearance as her personality, was rather peculiar. With very blond thick curly hair, she was short, stumpy and extremely plain. <ref> '' A Romanov Diary'', ''George, Grand Duchess of Russia, p.55''.</ref>
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==Marriage==
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[[Image:Vera and Wilhelm Eugen.jpg |thumb|150px|Grand Duchess Vera with her husband, Duke Eugen of Wurtemberg]]
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King Karl and Queen Olga legally adopted Grand Duchess Vera in [[1871]]. They arrange her marriage to a member of the Silesian branch of their family, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, so in this way she would not have to leave the country, after her marriage. The engagement took place in January [[1874]], pleasing both families. Grand Duke Konstantine wrote to the King and Queen profusely thanking them for the help they had given to his daughter. Queen Olga wrote “ my problem child is now a happy bride loving and loved. I never dreamed that such happiness could exist. Eugen is like a son to the King”. <ref >''The Grand Duchesses'', Beeche, Arturo , p. 70.</ref>
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Vera was nineteen and Eugen twenty eight. The wedding was celebrated with great pomp in [[Stuttgart]] on [[May 4]] [[1874]] with the presence of her uncle Tsar [[Alexander II of Russia | Alexander II]]. “ I confess that I do not envy the young husband” <ref> “Gilded Prism”: Greg King & Penny Wilson, p.38</ref> Alexander II remarked, noticing the unattractiveness of his niece.
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The couple settled in a large house the “ Akademie” in Stuttgart. The following year Vera gave birth to a son, Karl Eugen, who died seven moths later. In [[1876]], Vera had twin daughters Elsa and Olga. The Grand Duchess married life was short lived. Her husband, an officer in the Württemberg army died on [[January 27]], [[1877]] in [[Düsseldorf]], after a short illness. Vera became a widow after less than three years of marriage, only twenty-three years old, she never married again.
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Rather than returning to her native country, the young widow decided to stay in [[Württemberg]], the country she felt her own and where she had the protection of the King, but she traveled frequently to visit her relatives in Ruusia and her only sister, [[Olga Konstantinovna of Russia| Queen Olga of the Hellenes, in Greece]].
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At the death of King Karl in [[1891]] Vera inherited a considerable fortune and when Queen Olga died a year later, she received her property Villa Berg in [[Stuttgart]], where Vera lived with considerable style. She also wrote poetry, and her home was the scene of many cultural as well as family gatherings
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Bright and talkative, Grand Duchess Vera was popular in Württemberg, where she dedicated herself to charitable work. Women refuges, called Vera’s homes; the Benevolent Institution; the Olga Clinic in Stuttgart; the Nicholas nursing station for the blind, the Mariaberg Institute near Reutlingen, the dragoon regiment of her late husband, and a Russian regiment, were among the more than thirty institution and organization under her support. She was also involved in the construction of the Orthodox Church of St Nicholas in Stuttgart. <ref >''The Grand Duchesses'', Beeche, Arturo , p. 70.</ref>
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==Last Years==
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[[Image:Vera Konstantinovna with her daughters, Elsa right Olga left and Grand chldren.jpg |thumb|280px|Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia(center) with her daughters, Olga (left), Elsa (right) and grandchildren ]]
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Grand Duchess Vera visited Russia often and was present with her daughters in May [[1896]] during the coronation ceremonies of Tsar [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]]. Vera Konstantinovna and her daughters, now reaching twenty, were very popular in Stuttgart. The eldest of the twins, Elsa, was first engaged in January [[1895]] to Hereditary Prince[[Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha| Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]], a grand son of Queen Victoria.. After the engagement was quickly broken off, Elsa married a distant cousin, Prince Albert of Schaumburg-Lippe, brother of Queen Charlotte of Württemberg. The following year, Vera’s youngest daughter, Olga, married, her brother in law younger brother, Prince Maximilian of Schaumburg-Lippe. Olga’s fate was similar to Vera’s, she had three sons and in few years she lost her youngest son and her husband, becoming a widow at an early age, never marrying again.
 
Aged beyond her years, Grand Duchess Vera suffered of bad health. Now it is speculated that she had [[ Chorea (disease)|Sydenham’s chorea]] or Saint Vitus Dance, a neurological movement disorder characterized by abrupt, involuntary movements. <ref >''The Grand Duchesses'', Beeche, Arturo , p. 70.</ref> In Stuttgart Vera was assigned an officer to follow her about, to make sure that if she had an attack she would not fall an injured herself. <ref >''The Grand Duchesses'', Beeche, Arturo , p. 70.</ref>
 
By the turn of the century, Vera Konstantinovan was small and dumpy with a fat, round face. <ref> “Gilded Prism”: Greg King & Penny Wilson, p.105</ref> She wore her hair very short, which gave a masculine appearance. <ref >''The Grand Duchesses'', Beeche, Arturo , p. 71.</ref>Extremely short sighted she wore a [[pince nez]]. Consider by her family as rather eccentric, she had a good sense of humor and her funny remarks were memorable to her nephews and nieces, she was well like by her family.
 
After living in Württemberg for so long, she was at odds politically and religiously with her Russian relatives. Her political sympathies lied with Germany and she did not share the increasingly anti German view of the Romanovs. Vera Konstantinovna was very religious, but had never understood the orthodox faith and eventually abandoned to convert to [[Lutheranism]] in [[1909]], to the consternation of the Romanov family. She commissioned the building of a protestant church on the grounds of her Villa Berg
 
In [[1903]], during the wedding dinner for Princess Alice of Battenberg to her nephew Prince Andrew of Greece in Darmstadt. ‘ My brother George sat next to her,” recalled Prince Christopher. “ and , at a pause in the proceedings, snatched off her tiara and put it on her own head. Everybody laughed, Aunt Vera included, tough she vowed vengeance on the culprit. Her turn came, as she thought, a little alter, when the bride and bridegroom stated on their honeymoon. We were all gathered at the door throwing rice at them, when someone knocked off poor Aunt Vera’s glasses, which were smashed to atoms on the stone steps.” <ref> “Gilded Prism”: Greg King & Penny Wilson, p.105</ref> An unfortunate man , who happened to be standing next to the Grand Duchess, became the unfortunate subject of her wrath, she put the man’s hat off and stated to hit him over the head with it.
 
Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna suffered a stroke in [[October]] [[1911]] and she died in [[Stuttgart]] on [[April 11]], [[1912]], age fifty-eight. <ref> “Gilded Prism”: Greg King & Penny Wilson, p.105</ref>
 
==Children==
Grand Duchess Vera and her husband Duke Eugene of Württemberg had three children:
 
* Charles-Eugen of Wurtemberg [[April 8]][[1875]]- [[November]] [[1875]].
*Elsa of Württemberg [[March 1]] [[1876]]- [[May 27]] [[1936]] m. 1897 Albert of Schaumburg-Lippe ([[1869]]-[[1942]]).
* Olga of Württemberg [[March 1]][[1876]]- [[October 21 ]][[1932]] m. [[1898]] Maximilian of Schaumburg-Lippe ([[1871]]-[[1904]]).
==Notes ==
 
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==Bibliography==
 
*Beeche, Arturo, ''The Grand Duchesses'', Eurohistory, 2004. ISBN 0977196119
 
*Grand Duchess George of Russia, “A Romanov Diary”, Atlantic International Publications, 1988. ISBN 0938311093
 
*King Greg, Marshall Penny, “Gilded Prism”, Eurohistory, 2006. ISBN 0-9771691-4-3
 
 
 
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[[fr: Vera Constantinovna de Russie]]
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