Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
1847 – 1928 Danish-Russian Empress consort of Russia
The Danish-born empress who was mother of the last tsar.
- Religion
- Born a Danish Lutheran, she converted to Russian Orthodoxy on marriage.
- Affiliations
- House of Romanov by marriage; wife of Alexander III and mother of Nicholas II; escaped Russia in 1919.
Dagmar of Denmark married the future Alexander III and became a popular empress. As the mother of Nicholas II she remained a figure at court and often clashed with her daughter-in-law Alexandra. She fled Russia after the revolution and died in Denmark, never accepting that her sons had been killed.
Connections
- family of Alexander III of Russia — Her husband, the tsar.
- family of Nicholas II — Her son, the last tsar.