The girl born Princess Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar of Denmark would become Maria Feodorovna, the name she took when she converted to the Russian Orthodox Church when she married Alexander ...

2006-09-29 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- Czarina Maria Feodorovna, the Danish-born mother of Russia's last czar, was buried Thursday next to her son and husband in the Romanov family crypt in St ...

Czarina Maria Feodorovna was the mother of Nicholas II, who was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. She fled to Denmark in 1919 and died in 1928. The empress regarded the last decade of her life ...

Born in 1847, Maria Feodorovna was Princess Dagmar of Denmark, Empress of Russia, and wife of Tsar Alexander III. But today, she remains a beloved figure in Finland, a country she often visited to ...