Empress Alexandra Feodorovna

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Empress Alexandra Feodorovna was the last Empress of Russia, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, and a central yet controversial figure in the final years of the Romanov dynasty.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Empress consort of Russia
Historical figure
Queen consort
Romanov dynasty member by marriage
alsoKnownAs Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia
Alexandra Fyodorovna Romanova
Alix of Hesse
associatedWith Grigori Rasputin
birthName Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine
burialDate 1998-07-17
burialPlace Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg
canonizationStatus Saint
canonizedAs Passion bearer
canonizedBy Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
causeOfSonIllnessContext hemophilia in Alexei Nikolaevich
child Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia
convertedTo Eastern Orthodoxy
countryOfCitizenship German Empire
Russian Empire
dateOfBirth 1872-06-06
dateOfConversion 1894
dateOfDeath 1918-07-17
education private royal education
endTime 1917-03-15
era late Russian Empire
father Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
grandfather Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
grandmother Queen Victoria
house House of Hesse-Darmstadt
houseByMarriage House of Romanov
languageSpoken English
German
Russian
mannerOfDeath execution by shooting
mother Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
notableFor being the last Empress of Russia
close association with Grigori Rasputin
influence over Tsar Nicholas II
personalityDescribedAs reserved
shy
placeOfBirth Darmstadt
Grand Duchy of Hesse
placeOfDeath Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Yekaterinburg
politicalContext Russian Revolution of 1905
Russian Revolution of 1917
Russo-Japanese War
World War I
reignAsEmpressConsortOf Russian Empire
religion Lutheranism
Russian Orthodox Church
spouse Nicholas II of Russia
startTime 1894-11-26
title Empress of All the Russias
Tsaritsa of Russia
yearOfCanonization 1981

Referenced by (16)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Alix of Hesse and by Rhine ("Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia")
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna ("Alexandra Fyodorovna Romanova")
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna ("Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia")
alsoKnownAs
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia ("Alexandra Feodorovna")
Maria Nikolaevna of Russia ("Alexandra Feodorovna")
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia ("Alexandra Feodorovna")
mother
Nicholas II of Russia ("Alexandra Feodorovna")
Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer ("Alexandra Feodorovna")
spouse
House of Romanov ("Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)")
hasMember
Grigori Rasputin ("Alexandra Feodorovna")
influenced
Maria Nikolaevna of Russia ("Alexandra Feodorovna")
notableFamily
Ipatiev House ("Alexandra Feodorovna")
notableFigureAssociated
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia ("Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia")
relative
Alexander Palace ("Alexandra Feodorovna")
significantResident
Nicholas II diaries ("Alexandra Feodorovna")
subject
Livadia Palace
usedBy

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