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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alexandra_Feodorovna_(AlixAlexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) - Wikipedia

    Alexandra Feodorovna (Russian: Александра Фёдоровна; 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1872 – 17 July 1918), born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, was the last Empress of Russia as the consort of Tsar 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.

  2. allthatsinteresting.com › alexandra-feodorovnaHow Alexandra Feodorovna Became The Last Empress Of Russia

    Jan 11, 2022 · On November 26, 1894, the two married. As she was indoctrinated into the Russian Orthodox Church, Princess Alix took on a new name, Alexandra Feodorovna, and left her old life behind. The occasion of her wedding was sad, though. Nicholas’s father had just died of kidney failure at age 49.

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  3. www.britannica.com › biography › Alexandra-empressAlexandra | Biography, Death, & Facts | Britannica

    Alexandra (born June 6, 1872, Darmstadt, Germany—died July 17, 1918, Yekaterinburg, Russia) was the consort of the Russian emperor Nicholas II. Her misrule while the emperor was commanding the Russian forces during World War I precipitated the collapse of the imperial government in March 1917.

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  5. www.biography.com › alexandra-feodorovnaAlexandra Feodorovna - Children, Rasputin & Family - Biography

    Apr 2, 2014 · After the October Revolution in 1917, she was imprisoned and shot to death, along with her family, on the night of July 16-17, 1918. Feodorovna's rule precipitated the collapse of...

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Murder_of_the_Romanov_familyMurder of the Romanov family - Wikipedia

    The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death [2] [3] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.

  7. www.encyclopedia.com › alexandra-fedorovnaAlexandra Fedorovna - Encyclopedia.com

    In 1981, the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad canonized Alexandra, along with her family, for accepting death with faith in God and humility, and the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church followed suit in 2000.

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  9. www.encyclopedia.com › women › encyclopediasAlexandra Feodorovna (1872–1918) - Encyclopedia.com

    Born on April 25, 1843, at Buckingham Palace, London, England; died of diphtheria on December 14, 1878, in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany; second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; married Prince Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt (1837–1892), also known as Grand Duke Louis IV, in 1862; children: seven, including Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt (1863 ...