Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse
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| Date of birth | 6 June 1872 Darmstadt Alix Viktoria Helene Luise Beatrix | ||||
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| Date of death | 17 July 1918 Yekaterinburg | ||||
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Deutsch: Prinzessin Alix von Hessen und bei Rhein (Alix Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice) (* 25. April 1872 in Darmstadt; † 16. Juli 1918 in Jekaterinburg) war verheiratet mit dem Zaren Nikolaus II. und war als Alexandra Fjodorowna letzte Zarin (Zaritsa) von Russland.
English: Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia (Alexandra Fyodorovna Romanova (Russian: Императрица Александра Фёдоровна Романова), born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine (German: Alix Viktoria Helene Luise Beatrice Prinzessin von Hessen und bei Rhein) 7 June 1872 – 17 July 1918, was Empress consort of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of the Russian Empire.
Русский: Алекса́ндра Фёдоровна (6 июня 1872—17 июля 1918) - российская императрица (урождённая принцесса Аликс Виктория Елена Луиза Беатрис Гессен-Дармштадтская), жена Николая II (c 1894 г.).
Portraits
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[edit]Main category: Portrait paintings of Alexandra Fyodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
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Alix of Hesse, by Georg Koberwein, 1874
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Princess Alix of Hesse, later Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia (1872-1918), when a child, by Sydney Prior Hall, 1882
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Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, born Princess Alix of Hessen and by Rhine in Russian court gown, by Ilya Savich Galkin, 1894
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Wedding of Nicholas II and Grand Princess Alexandra Fyodorovna, by Laurits Tuxen, 1895
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Portrait by Albert von Keller, 1896
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Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia (1872-1918), by Heinrich von Angeli, 1896/1897
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The Tsar and His Family, by Elena Samokysh-Sudkovskaya, 1902
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Portrait by Alexander Makovski, 1903
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Portrait by Nikolai Kornilievich Bodarevsky, Tsarskoe Selo, 1907
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Portrait by Alexander Makovski, 1914
Photographs
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1875
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1881
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1887
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1887
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1889
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1892
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1893
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1894
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1894
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1894; in her wedding dress
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1898
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1899
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1900
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1901
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1908
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ca. 1909
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1911
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1914
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1917
Alexandra Feodorovna and Nicholas II
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Official engagement photo (April 1894)
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April 1894
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August 1894
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1896
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Wearing historical dynastic suits of czar Alexei Mikhailovich I and czarina Maria Ilyinichna Miloslavskaia during a fancy dress ball in Saint Petersburg (1903)
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Aboard the Standart at Reval, Russia (now Tallinn, Estonia)
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Nicholas II and Alexandra on a walk with their dog near the palace in the Alexander Park at Tsarskoe Selo (1910)
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Last known photograph of Nicholas and Alexandra, taken at the Governor's House in Tobolsk
(September 1917)
Alexandra Feodorovna and Nicholas II with their children
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With their eldest child, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1896)
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With their daughters Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna (1898)
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Tsarina Alexandra with her youngest daughter, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna (1901)
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Tsarina Alexandra with her son, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904/1905)
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Tsarina Alexandra with her son, Alexei (1906)
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The Tsar and Tsarina with their children (1906)
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The Russian Imperial Family aboard the Imperial yacht Standart (ca. 1906)
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Tsarina Alexandra with her daughters in front of the Lower dacha in Peterhof
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With their eldest child, Olga (1909)
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Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra and their children at breakfast after partaking of the Holy Mysteries at Livadia Palace (1909)
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With their children in the Alexander Park at Tsarskoe Selo (1910)
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With Alexei on her balcony at Tsarskoe Selo (1911)
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Tsarina Alexandra with Maria aboard the Standart (1912)
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Tsarina Alexandra and Tsarevich Alexei (1913)
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Tsarina Alexandra and Tatiana (1913)
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The Russian Imperial Family (1913)
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The Russian Imperial Family (1913)
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Tsarina Alexandra with her daughters on an official visit (1916)
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With their son, Tsarevich Alexei, at Tsarskoe Selo (ca. 1916)
Alexandra with other family
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Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and by Rhine (later Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Hesse) with their children: Princess Victoria, Princess Elisabeth, Princess Irene, Prince Ernest Louis, Princess Alix, and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (May 1875)
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Princess Alice with her surviving children: Princess Elisabeth, Princess Victoria, Princess Irene, Prince Ernest Louis, Princess Alix, and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine
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With her younger sister, Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine
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With her surviving siblings: Princess Irene, seated; Ernest Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, standing; Princess Marie, seated; Princess Elizabeth, standing behind writing desk; Princess Victoria, seated at writing desk
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With her maternal grandmother Queen Victoria; father Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse; and her surviving siblings Princess Victoria, Ernest Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, Princess Irene, and Princess Elizabeth
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With her maternal uncle Prince Leopold of the United Kingdom (later Duke of Albany)
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Group photograph at the wedding of The Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg at Osborne House
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Group photograph at Osborne House
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With her sister Princess Irene and their cousins Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein; Charlotte, Hereditary Princess of Saxe-Meiningen; and Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1885)
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With her cousin and future brother-in-law Prince Louis of Battenberg (later Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven) (1887)
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The Hessian siblings in mourning for their father: Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse; Princess Louis of Battenberg; Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia; Princess Henry of Prussia; and Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine (1892)
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Queen Victoria surrounded by her family at Coburg, following the wedding of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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Guests of Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine at Neues Palais in Darmstadt; Top Row: Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (later Nicholas II of Russia), Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine (later Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia), Princess Louis of Battenberg and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse; Bottom Row: Princess Henry of Prussia; Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna of Russia; Victoria Melita, Grand Duchess of Hesse; and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia
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Tsarina Alexandra holding her daughter Grand Duchess Olga, alongside her husband Nicholas II of Russia, her maternal grandmother Queen Victoria, and maternal uncle Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) at Balmoral Castle
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Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia with her son Nicholas II of Russia, daughter-in-law Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, daughters Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia and Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia as well as granddaughters Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia and Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1896)
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Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna (Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich's daughter), Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna of Russia (Vladimir's wife), and Nicholas II, all in mourning for the death of Nicholas's brother Grand Duke George (1899)
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With her husband Nicholas II and sister Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (ca. 1900)
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Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, with his sisters and brothers-in-law on the occasion of the wedding of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg in Darmstadt
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With her children, sister-in-law Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, and cousin Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom aboard the Standart, at Reval, Russia (now Tallinn, Estonia)
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Royal Gathering at Osborne; (l-r) Prince Edward of Wales (later Edward VIII), The Princess of Wales (later Queen Mary), Queen Alexandra, Princess Mary of Wales (later Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood), Nicholas II of Russia, The Princess Victoria, Tsarevitch Alexei, Edward VII, Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Anastasia, Tsarina Alexandra, Grand Duchess Tatiana, The Prince of Wales (later George V), and Grand Duchess Maria
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Russian and Hessian family group at Schloss Wolfsgarten (1910)
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The Russian Imperial Family before World War I
(27 June 1914)
Alexandra with foreign royalty and officials
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With Nicholas II and German A. Tobisen at the Chapel of the Holy Face of Our Saviour in Birky (1900)
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The Russian Imperial Family with the Romanian Royal Family in Constanța, Romania
(June 1914)
Alexandra with others
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With Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna and lady-in-waiting Anna Vyrubova on the Finnish skerries, Paatio island in Virolahti (ca. 1908)
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Empress Alexandra Feodorovna with Grigori Rasputin, her children, and a governess (1908)
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Nursing with surgeon Vera Gedroitz during World War I (1915)
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Alexandra, Tatiana, and Anastasia, alongside soldiers (including Nikolay Demenkov) (1916)
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With Nicholas II, Olga, and aide-de-camp Captain Nikolai Sablin boating on the Dnieper River near Mogilev
(30 September 1916)
Symbols
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Lesser Coat of arms of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia
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Coat of arms of Alexandra Feodorovna (Order of Queen Maria Luisa)
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Imperial monogram
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Imperial monogram, variant
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Signature
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[edit]See also
[edit]- Nicholas II of Russia
- Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
- Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia
- Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
- Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
- Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
- Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
- Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
