Alexandra Feodorovna was the last empress of Russia as the consort of Nicholas II from their marriage on 26 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917.
Photograph by Boasson and Eggler, 1908
Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine when she was a child
Princess Alix of Hesse, lower right, with her grandmother Queen Victoria and her four older siblings in mourning after the deaths of her mother and sister. January 1879
Princess Alix when she was 15
Grigori Rasputin
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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic and faith healer. He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, through whom he gained conside
Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
…in her insistence on maintaining autocratic rule in the face of growing revolutionary pressures in Russia. Her relationship with the Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin became a subject of controversy. Rasputin's alleged ability to alleviate Alexei's suffering from hemophilia increased Alexandra's reliance on him…
Portrait of Rasputin, c. 1910s
Pokrovskoye in 1912
Rasputin with his children
Makary, Bishop Theofan and Rasputin, 1909