Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)

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Alexandra Feodorovna
Photograph by Boasson and Eggler, 1908
Empress consort of Russia
Tenure	26 November 1894 – 15 March 1917
Coronation	26 May 1896
Born	Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1872 New Palace, Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire
Died	17 July 1918(1918-07-17) (aged 46) Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg, Russian SFSR
Cause of death	Execution by firing squad
Burial	17 July 1998 Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Spouse	Nicholas II of Russia ​ ​ (m. 1894; their deaths 1918)​
Issue	Grand Duchess Olga Grand Duchess Tatiana Grand Duchess Maria Grand Duchess Anastasia Tsesarevich Alexei
Names English: Alice Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice[1] German: Alix Viktoria Helene Luise Beatrix Russian: Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova
House	Hesse-Darmstadt
Father	Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
Mother	Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
Religion	Russian Orthodox prev. Lutheranism
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Alexandra Feodorovna (Russian: Александра Фёдоровна; 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1872 – 17 July 1918), Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine at birth, was the last Empress of Russia as the consort of Emperor 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. A favourite granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, she was, like her grandmother, one of the most famous royal carriers of haemophilia and bore a haemophiliac heir, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. Her reputation for encouraging her husband's resistance to the surrender of autocratic authority and her known faith in the Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin severely damaged her popularity and that of the Romanov monarchy in its final years.^[2] She and her immediate family were all murdered while in Bolshevik captivity in 1918, during the Russian Revolution. In 2000, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized her as Saint Alexandra the Passion Bearer.