Countess Maria Ludwika Krasińska (24 March 1883 - 23 January 1958) was a Polish

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, major heiress, landowner and a significant art collector.

Biography

Born into an old and influential House of Krasiński, Maria was the only child of Count Count Ludwik Krasinski (1833-1895) and his wife, Magdalena Zawisza-Kierzgaillo (1861-1935). Her art collection was the origin of the Krasinski Museum.

Marriage and issue

On August 31, 1901 in

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, she was married to Prince Adam Ludwik Czartoryski, eldest son of Prince

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by his second wife, Princess Marguerite of Orléans. They had tree sons and four daughters: * Princess Malgorzata Izabella Czartoryska (1902-1929), married Prince Gabriel of Bourbon-Two Sicilies; had issue * Princess Elżbieta Czartoryska (1905-1989), married Count Stefan Adam Zamoyski; had issue * Prince Augustyn Józef Czartoryski (1907-1946), married

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; had issue *Princess Yolanda Czartoryska (1914-1987), married Prince Wladyslaw Radziwill (1909-1978); had issue *Prince Władysław Czartoryski (1918–1978), married Elizabeth

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(1925-1983); didn't have issue *Princess Teresa Czartoryska (1923-1976), married Jan Groda-Kowalski (b. 1917); had issue *Prince Ludwik Czartoryski (1927-1944), died in

during a battle in

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