Alexandra Feodorovna Biography

Alexandra Feodorovna biography

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NAME: Alexandra Feodorovna
OCCUPATION: Empress
BIRTH DATE: June 06, 1872
DEATH DATE: c. July 16, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH: Darmstadt, Germany
PLACE OF DEATH: Yekaterinburg, Russia
Full Name: Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova
AKA: Alix, Princess von Hesse-Darmstadt
AKA: Saint Alexandra the Passion Bearer
AKA: St. Alexandra the Passion Bearer
AKA: Aleksandra Fyodorovna
AKA: Aleksandra Fyodorovna Romanova
AKA: Alix of Hesse
AKA: Alexandra Feodorovna
AKA: Alix of Hesse and by Rhine

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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.

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Alexandra Feodorovna (also known as Alix of Hesse, or Aleksandra Fyodorovna Romanova, among other names) was born on June 6, 1872 in Darmstadt, Germany. She married Russian Czar Nicholas II in 1894. Unpopular at court, she turned to mystic Grigori Rasputin for council. After Nicholas left for the WWI front, Feodorovna replaced her ministers with those favoured by Rasputin. After the October Revolution in 1917, she was imprisoned and shot to death with, along with her entire family, on July 16, 1918. Feodorovna's rule precipitated the collapse of Russia's imperial government.