Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)

Full name
	Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar

Maria Feodorovna
Maria Feodorovna
	Maria in 1881
Empress consort of Russia
	13 March 1881 – 1 November 1894
Coronation	27 May 1883
Predecessor	Maria Alexandrovna
Successor	Alexandra Feodorovna
Born	Princess Marie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg; 26 November 1847; Yellow Mansion, Copenhagen, Denmark
Died	13 October 1928 (aged 80); Hvidøre House, Klampenborg, Denmark
Burial	Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark (1928–2006); Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Russia (reinterred in 2006);
Spouse	Alexander III of Russia; (m. 1866; died 1894)
Issue	Nicholas II; Grand Duke Alexander; Grand Duke George; Grand Duchess Xenia; Grand Duke Michael; Grand Duchess Olga;
Full name
Full name
	Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar
House	Glücksburg
Father	Christian IX of Denmark
Mother	Louise of Hesse-Kassel
Religion	Russian Orthodoxy ; prev. Lutheranism
Signature

Maria Feodorovna (Russian: Мария Фёдоровна, romanized: Mariya Fyodorovna; 26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928)^[1] was the Empress of Russia from 1881 to 1894 as the wife of Emperor Alexander III. She was the fourth child and second daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Queen Louise of Hesse-Kassel. She was also the mother of Nicholas II, the last Russian Emperor.^[2]

Maria was born as Princess Dagmar on November 26, 1847 in Copenhagen, Denmark to Christian IX and Louise of Hesse-Kassel. She was the older sister of Queen Alexandra of Denmark. In 1866, she married Alexander III of Russia. They had six children together named Nicholas, Alexander, George, Xenia, Michael, and Olga.

In 1881, she became the empress consort after the assassination of her father in-law, Emperor Alexander II. She was the empress for thirteen years until her husband's death in 1894. After his death, she became empress dowager as her eldest son Nicholas II, became emperor

Maria was the empress dowager from 1894 until the fall of the Russian Empire during the Russian Revolution in 1917. Nicholas and his family were murdered by Bolsheviks on July 17, 1918. Maria and her daughters and other members of the Romanov family managed to escape from the revolution.

She later went back to her home country Denmark and she never returned to Russia. Maria died ten years later in 1928, she was 80 years old.^[3]

Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar Of Denmark) Media

Tsesarevna Maria Feodorovna of Russia, 1870s
Princess Dagmar's birthplace and childhood home, the Yellow Mansion in Copenhagen.
Princess Dagmar, Prince Vilhelm, Christian IX of Denmark and Princess Alexandra in 1861.
Princesses Alexandra and Dagmar. Portrait by Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann (1856).
Portrait of a young Princess Dagmar with her dog in the 1860s by Andreas Herman Hunæus.
Princess Dagmar and her second fiancé, Tsarevich Alexander.
Wedding delegation in the Danish harbour, 1866
Danish armoured frigate Peder Skram which escorted Princess Dagmar to Russia shown here at Kronstadt in September 1866.

References

↑ "Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna | [Personal Travel Album Made by the Dowager Empress Maria Feoderovna Showing Events in the Daily Life of the Russian Imperial Family]". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
↑ "HIM Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia". Henry Poole Savile Row. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
↑ "Dowager Empress Marie - Blog & Alexander Palace Time Machine". www.alexanderpalace.org. Retrieved 2024-07-30.

[1] "Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna | [Personal Travel Album Made by the Dowager Empress Maria Feoderovna Showing Events in the Daily Life of the Russian Imperial Family]". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-07-30.

[2] "HIM Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia". Henry Poole Savile Row. Retrieved 2024-07-30.

[3] "Dowager Empress Marie - Blog & Alexander Palace Time Machine". www.alexanderpalace.org. Retrieved 2024-07-30.

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