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Alexandra Feodorovna (Russian: Алекса́ндра Фёдоровна, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandrə ˈfjɵdərəvnə] ), born Princess Charlotte of Prussia (13 July 1798 – 1 November 1860), was Empress of Russia as the wife of Emperor Nicholas I ( r. 1825–1855 ).

Alexandra, Russian in full Aleksandra Fyodorovna, original German name Alix, Prinzessin (princess) von Hesse-Darmstadt, (born June 6, 1872, Darmstadt, Germany—died July 17, 1918, Yekaterinburg, Russia), consort of the Russian emperor Nicholas II.

Alexandra Feodorovna was consort of the Russian Czar Nicholas II. Her rule precipitated the collapse of Russia's imperial government. She was murdered, along with her entire family, in 1918.

Marriage And A New Life In Tsarist Russia. Empress Alexandra Feodorovna in 1906. 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.

Alexandra Feodorovna was a princess of Germany and an Empress of Russia, but none of this privilege saved her from a tragic fate. As one of the last Romanovs, she fell victim first to the dark charms of Rasputin, and then to the Russian Revolution. From her plush beginnings to her violent end, here are 50 imperial facts about Empress Alexandra ...

Alexandra, also known as Alix, was born in 1872, the daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice, a daughter of Queen Victoria. When she was six years old, tragedy struck the family in the form of diphtheria. One of her sisters died as did her mother, who had nursed the entire family through the illness.

DNA evidence was able to corroborate what was thought to be the truth, that all members of the Romanov family had died. In the end then, Alexandra Feodorovna was abandoned by the Russian people and her own greater family, all of whom turned their back on her when she and her family needed them most.

Alexandra Feodorovna. (Empress Consort of Russia (1894 - 1917)) The granddaughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and the Empress consort of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna was as the wife of Nicholas II and the last Tsaritsa of the Russian empire. Alexandra was a maternal great-aunt of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and first cousin to his ...