Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Princesses Irene, Victoria, Elisabeth and Alix of Hesse in 1885. She received her first name, which was taken from the Greek word for "peace", because she was born at the end of the Austro-Prussian War. She was nicknamed "Nin" by her family. [1]
On 19 April 1894, Tsarevich Nicholas was at the wedding of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, to their mutual cousin, Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.Nicholas had also obtained permission from his parents, Tsar Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna, to propose to Ernst's younger sister, Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, one of the favorite granddaughters of Queen Victoria.
Princess Charlotte of Prussia: 2. Alexander III of Russia: 10. Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse: 5. Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine: 11. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden: 1. Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia: 12. Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg: 6. Christian IX of Denmark: 13. Princess Louise Caroline ...
Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel [87] 1. Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia: 12. Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine [88] 6. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine [85] 13. Princess Elisabeth of Prussia [88] 3. Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine: 14. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha [89] 7. Princess Alice of the United Kingdom ...
Princess Dagmar was one of the candidates, and as early as 1860 the emperor had made his first inquiries about a possible engagement. There were also already family ties between the two families, as Dagmar's uncle had been married to the emperor's sister. Princess Dagmar and her first fiancé Tsarevich Nicholas, 1864.
During the war, Victoria's two sisters, Alix and Elisabeth, were murdered in the Russian revolution, and her brother, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, was deposed. On her last visit to Russia in 1914, Victoria had driven past the very house in Yekaterinburg where Alix would be murdered. [30]
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Марія Александровна, romanized: Mariya Aleksandrovna; 17 October [O.S. 5 October] 1853 – 24 October 1920) was the fifth child and only surviving daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine; she was Duchess of Edinburgh and later Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as the wife of Alfred, Duke of Saxe ...