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Title: Maria Feodorovna, Empress Consort of Russia, Photograph Signed
Description: Hvidore: s. n. 1928. Softcover. Original, silver gelatin, photographic postcard of the Empress sitting on a padded bench in her garden, holding an umbrella and a bouquet of flowers; 5 x 3 1/4; minor wear to corners and image; a bit of age-toning and a manuscript note in pencil to verso; near fine condition. Signed in ink: "Maria, Hvidore" in the lower half of the photo. Possibly one of Maria Feodorovna's last photographs, the anonymous note on the back stated: "The Empress sent me this not long before she passed away at Hvidore." Empress Consort of Russia Maria Feodorovna (1847 – 1928), christened Dagmar, was the wife of Tsar Alexander III and mother of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, whom she outlived by ten years. The second daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Cassel, she was bethroted to Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Russia, but after his death from meningitis in 1865, Maria honored his last wish and married his younger brother, the future Alexander III. She converted to Orthodoxy and became Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna of Russia. With Alexander II's assassination in 1881, she and her husband were crowned Emperor and Empress of Russia. After Alexander III's death in 1894, she became Dowager Empress and her son Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra were crowned the new rulers. The outbreak of the Revolution in 1917 forced her to travel to Crimea, where she received the devastating news that her sons, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren had been murdered. She refused to believe it and declared it a rumor. Although the monarchy would be overthrown, she would not leave Russia until 1919 - first to London and, eventually, to her native Denmark, where she would settle in Hvidore (a former country house near Copenhagen). Maria died on October 13, 1928, at the age of 80, having outlived four of her six children. Ill.: 0. 2.

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