Yes, it is the same man, Axel Munthe (1857-1949), the son of a pharmacist in a small town named Vimmerby. Staffan Skott, a Swedish author who has written about both the Romanovs and the Bernadottes, states in one of his books that Munthe sexually abused Maria Pavlovna. 
That makes me feel bad for Marie Pavlovna.
I'm sure at that time she knew very little about such matters....
Did this man hold a powerful sway over Victoria as well?
I've always wondered--she seems sort of an isolated figure. She didn't have too much family of her own--only two brothers, one died young, no nieces or nephews. Her mother was the only sibling of Fritz, so Victoria would have been a first cousin to Fritz and Vicky's girls. Was she close to them?
