Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
Empress of Russia from 1894 to 1917 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alexandra Feodorovna (Russian: Александра Фёдоровна; 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1872 – 17 July 1918), Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine at birth, was the last Empress of Russia as the consort of Emperor Nicholas II from their marriage on 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March [O.S. 2 March] 1917. A favourite granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, she was, like her grandmother, one of the most famous royal carriers of haemophilia and bore a haemophiliac heir, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. Her reputation for encouraging her husband's resistance to the surrender of autocratic authority and her known faith in the Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin severely damaged her popularity and that of the Romanov monarchy in its final years.[2] She and her immediate family were all murdered while in Bolshevik captivity in 1918, during the Russian Revolution. In 2000, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized her as Saint Alexandra the Passion Bearer.
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| Alexandra Feodorovna | |||||
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 Photograph by Boasson and Eggler, 1908 | |||||
| Empress consort of Russia | |||||
| Tenure | 26 November 1894 – 15 March 1917 | ||||
| Coronation | 26 May 1896 | ||||
| Born | Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1872 New Palace, Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire | ||||
| Died | 17 July 1918(1918-07-17) (aged 46) Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg, Russian SFSR | ||||
| Cause of death | Execution by firing squad | ||||
| Burial | 17 July 1998 Peter and Paul Cathedral,
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation | ||||
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| House | Hesse-Darmstadt | ||||
| Father | Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine | ||||
| Mother | Princess Alice of the United Kingdom | ||||
| Religion | Russian Orthodox prev. Lutheranism | ||||
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