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Biography
Born a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, she was given the name Alexandra Feodorovna upon being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, which canonized her as Saint Alexandra the Passion Bearer in 2000.
Alexandra was born on 6 June 1872 at the New Palace in Darmstadt as Her Grand Ducal Highness Princess Viktoria Alix Helena Luise Beatrice of Hesse and by Rhine, a Grand Duchy that was then part of the German Empire. She was the sixth child among the seven children of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the second daughter of Queen Victoria and Albert, the Prince Consort.
Alix and Nicholas (Romanov) were related to each other via several different lines of European royalty and nobility: the most notable was their shared great-grandmother Princess Wilhelmina of Baden, making them second cousins via this line; and King Wilhelm II of Prussia, who was simultaneously the great-great-grandfather of Alix and the great-great-great-grandfather of Nicholas, which in this line made them third cousins, once removed. Alexandra and Nicholas were wed in the Grand Church of the Winter Palace of St Petersburg on 26 November 1894, the birthday of Nicholas's mother, now Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna.
The former tsar and tsaritsa and all of their family, including the gravely ill Alexei, along with several family servants, were executed by firing squad and bayonets in the basement of the Ipatiev House, where they had been imprisoned, early in the morning of 17 July 1918, by a detachment of Bolsheviks led by Yakov Yurovsky.
Victoria Alix Helena Louise Beatrice von Hessen und bei Rhein was born in 1872. She passed away about 1971.
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See also:
- Wikipedia - Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
- Alexandra Feodorovna von Hesse Romanova on Find A Grave: Memorial #8391065 Retrieved 23 sep 2016.
- Wikidata: Item Q152094
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8391065/alexandra-feodorovna-romanova : accessed 03 July 2022), memorial page for Alexandra Feodorovna von Hesse Romanova (6 Jun 1872–17 Jul 1918), Find a Grave Memorial ID 8391065, citing Saint Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russia ; Maintained by Find a Grave .
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Nicholas_II_and_Alexandra_Feodorovna#Marriage
- Family archive
