Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)

Maria Feodorovna
Empress Maria in 1881
Empress consort of Russia
Tenure	13 March 1881 – 1 November 1894
Coronation	27 May 1883
Born	Princess Marie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1847-11-26)26 November 1847 Yellow Mansion, Copenhagen, Denmark
Died	13 October 1928(1928-10-13) (aged 80) Hvidøre House, Klampenborg, Denmark
Burial	Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, 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 Alexandrovich Grand Duke George Alexandrovich Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna
Names Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar
House	Glücksburg
Father	Christian IX of Denmark
Mother	Louise of Hesse-Kassel
Religion	Russian Orthodoxy prev. Lutheranism
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Maria Feodorovna (Russian: Мария Фёдоровна, romanized: Mariya Fyodorovna; 26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928), known before her marriage as Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was Empress of Russia from 1881 to 1894 as the wife of Emperor Alexander III. She was the fourth child and second daughter of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel. Maria’s eldest son, Nicholas, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. Maria lived for 10 years after Bolshevik functionaries killed Nicholas and his immediate family in 1918.