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  1. Childhood, 1879-1888. Left: Queen Victoria with Princess Victoria, Elizabeth and Alix of Hesse, in 1879. Princess Alix used to say, in after years, that her earliest recollections were of an unclouded, happy babyhood, of perpetual sunshine, then of a great cloud. . . . The Grand Duchess Alice's death left an inexpressible void in the Palace.

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      Alexandra Feodorovna was the last Romanov Empress of...

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      The Empress Alexandra Feodorovna drove alone, and had no...

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      In the summer of 1890 the Grand Duke of Hesse went to Russia...

  2. Alexandra Feodorovna (1872–1918) Empress of Russia who played a major role in undermining the stability of the Russian monarchy during the first part of the 20th century. Name variations: Alix or Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt; christened Princess Alix Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice, Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt, changed her name to the Russian ...

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    Alexandra Feodorovna was born Princess Alix Viktoria Helene Luise Beatrix in Darmstadt, Hesse and by Rhine. That area was a part of the German Empire at the time. Her father was Grand Duke Louis IV. Her mother was the former Princess Alice, the second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In November 1878, diphtheria swept through Hesse. Al...

    When she grew up, Alix was a beautiful woman, with reddish-blonde hair, high cheek bones, pale skin, dark blue eyes, and long dark eyelashes. Alix was married relatively late for a princess in those times. She had already refused to marry Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (the eldest son of the Prince of Wales), even though her family wanted h...

    The Tsar and Tsarina and all of their family, along with several family servants, were executed early in the morning during the night of July 17, 1918, by a detachment of Bolsheviks led by Yakov Yurovsky. Alexandra watched the murder of her husband and two servants before Peter Ermakovkilled her with a gun shot to the left side of her head before s...

    6 June 1872 – 26 November 1894: Her Grand Ducal HighnessPrincess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine
    1 November 1894 – 26 November 1894: Her Imperial HighnessGrand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia (created prior to marriage)
    26 November 1894 – 15 March 1917: Her Imperial MajestyTsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia.
    15 March 1917 - July 17/18 1918: Her Grand Ducal HighnessPrincess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine
    (in Russian) The Murder of Russia's Imperial Family Archived 2007-03-22 at the Wayback Machine, Nicolay Sokolov. Investigation of murder of the Romanov Imperial Family in 1918.
  4. Jan 15, 2020 · The first full-scale biography of Alexandra in thirty years, it is the first to fully explore her childhood motivations and influences. Just six years of age when her mother died, Alexandra, a princess of Hesse-Darmstadt, a German principality, was reared under the tutelage of various aunts but always remained under the watchful if faraway eye ...

  5. Sep 1, 2018 · Alix was known as Alexandra Feodorovna from this point on. Alexandra was loved deeply by her husband from the start of their marriage up until the very end, but unfortunately, her subjects did not share his love. As the couple was married while the nation was still in mourning for Emperor Alexander III, Alexandra was seen as a bad omen.

  6. Jan 1, 1994 · Alexandra Feodorovna, also known as Alix of Hesse, was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She is most well known for being the wife of Czar Nicholas II, a mother (and carrier) of a child with hemophilia. Alexandra was very religious, though she did fall into the trap of mysticism that Rasputin offered.

  7. www.fembio.org › biography › alexandra-feodorownaAlexandra Feodorowna

    Alexandra Feodorowna. everywhere in titles only. Biographies Alexandra Feodorowna. (née Alix, Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt) born on June 6, 1872 in Darmstadt, Germany. died (murdered) on 17 July 1918 in Yekaterinburg. last Russian tsarina; murder victim. 150th birthday on June 6, 2022. Biography.

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