Alexandra Fjeodorovna von Hessen-Darmstadt

1872 - 1918  (46 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 5 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Alexandra Fjeodorovna von Hessen-Darmstadt
  Birth	6 Jun 1872	Darmstadt, Hessen, Deutschland
  Gender	Female
  Death	17 Jul 1918	Ekaterinburg
  Siblings	6 Siblings
  + 1. Victoria Elisabeth Mathilde Alberta Maria Prinzessin von Hessen und bei Rhein,   b. 5 Apr 1863, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England d. 24 Sep 1950, Kensington Palace, Kensington, Middlesex, England  (Age 87 years) ▻ Earl Ludwig Alexander Mountbatten,  m. 30 Apr 1884   2. Elisaveta Feodorov von Hessen und bei Rhein,   b. 1 Nov 1864, Bessungen d. 18 Jul 1918, Alapaisek  (Age 53 years) ▻ Sergei Alexandrovich von Holstein-Gottorp,  m. 15 Jun 1884 + 3. Irene Marie Louise Anna von Hessen und bei Rhein,   b. 11 Jul 1866, Darmstadt, Hessen, Deutschland d. 11 Nov 1953, Herrenhaus Hemmelmark b.Eckernförde  (Age 87 years) ▻ Prinz Albert Wilhelm Heinrich von Preußen,  m. 24 May 1888   4. Frittie von Hessen und bei Rhein,   b. 1868-1869   d. May 1873  (Age 4 years) + 5. Großherzog Ernst Ludwig Albrecht Carl Wilhelm von Hessen und bei Rhein,   b. 25 Nov 1868, Darmstadt, Hessen, Deutschland d. 9 Oct 1937, Schloss Wolfsgarten  (Age 68 years) ▻ Princess Victoria Melita von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha,  m. 19 Apr 1894 ;   Prinzessin Eleonore zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich,  m. 2 Feb 1905 + 6. Alexandra Fjeodorovna von Hessen-Darmstadt,   b. 6 Jun 1872, Darmstadt, Hessen, Deutschland d. 17 Jul 1918, Ekaterinburg  (Age 46 years) ▻ Tsaar Nikolai II von Holstein-Gottorp,  m. 1893   7. Mary von Hessen und bei Rhein,   b. 1873-1874   d. 1878  (Age 4 years)
  Person ID	I8688	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	6 Dec 2001

  
  

  Father	Großherzog Ludwig IV von Hessen und bei Rhein,   b. 12 Sep 1837, Bessungen b Darmstadt d. 13 Mar 1892, Darmstadt, Hessen, Deutschland (Age 54 years)
  Mother	Alice Maud von Sachsen-Coburg,   b. 25 Apr 1843, Buckingham Palace, Saint James Park, London, England d. 14 Dec 1878, Darmstadt, Hessen, Deutschland (Age 35 years)
  Marriage	1 Jul 1862	Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
  Family ID	F2133	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Tsaar Nikolai II von Holstein-Gottorp,   b. 18 May 1868, St. Petersburg, Ingria, Rossiya d. 17 Jul 1918, Ekaterinburg (Age 50 years)
  Marriage	1893
  The Date is July 17, 1918 in Yekaterinburg, Russia, you are about to wittness history. A man with a black beard and black hair is being follwed by 11 men, women, and children. A short strong man carefully carries a young thin 13 year old boy. A taller woman follows him, she is followed by 4 young women. Behind them are 4 others a cook, a maid, a valet, and a doctor. The short strong man puts the young boy in a chair next to the taller woman who is his mother ,the short man stands next to his son. The four young women are standing behind their brother, mother, and father. Next to them are the cook, maid, valet, and doctor. They are huddled together in a small room barely 13X7 feet big. The man with the dark beard comes into the room with his right hand in his pocket and a piece of paper in his left. He directs the 11 people to stand in 2 rows. He reads the paper which says, "Because your family persists in their attack on Soviet Russia, The Ural Executive Commitee has decided to excecute you." The short man turns to his family and turns back to the dark gentleman and says, "Wha.. What?" The dark gentleman repeats the order again and 12 armed men begin shooting. What you have just witnessed is the excecution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The short man is Nicholas II, his son is Alexei, his wife Alexandra, his daughters Olga, Tatiana, Marie, and Anastasia. The cook is Kharitinov, the maid Anna Demidova the valet Trupp, and the doctor is Eugene Botkin. The dark gentleman is Yakov Yurovsky. I've always been taught and believed in 2 wrongs don't make a right, but in this case maybe it could have been. If you gave me a big old O.J. knife and Yurovsky in a locked room, only 1 person would come out...me. Here I want to put a quote from the book Tsar, The Lost World Of Nicholas And Alexandra "The Russian Revolution, cites the murder of the Romanovs in July 1918 as the moment when history made a turn toward genocide, when "millions of nameless beings" were placed on a list of expandables and the world entered "an entirely new moral realm". That realm is with us still. In a world grown accustomed, even inured, to the slaughter of innocents, these seven faces and this fatefull room might serve as epigraphs for all the horrors the twentieth century would hold in store." The Romanovs were victims of the times in which they lived. The nineteenth century saw the rise of the "modern age" and the aristocrasies of that time, in many cases, failed to "move with the times," sadly the Romanovs among them. However, as a family and as human beings they were beyond reproach. I believe Nicholas was the victim of some bad advisors and the all out European plunge into the first war, one Russia should have withdrawn from, but for "family" reasons, could not. Some called Nicholas. unfit for the job; what he was unfit for was the times -- I think he was a purer soul than could have survived the machinations of government at that level -- many forces, within his own family and class, were actively (and openly) at work against him! Nicholas & Aleksandra chose not to involve themselves in "corrupt high society" and so were treated badly and schemed against. If things had gone differently, Nicholas would have made a perfect ruler in a constitutional monarchy. When the nations of Europe fell in that slaughter (W.W.I), so too did the Romanovs -- victims not just of the Bolsheviki, but also of their "larger family." They were, truly, martyrs in an upheaval that brought about the "end" of a whole way of life. Cruelest of all, their own people knew little or nothing of the facts surrounding their demise; crueler yet, the Russians had an insufferable and ungodly government foisted upon them -- one that a significant segment of the population did not choose. After exactly 80 years the last imperial family was laid to rest in the ancient St Peter and Paul's Cathedral. The funeral wasn't easy, the patriarch Alexi II was not convinced that it were the bones of the imperial family, even then the DNA matched. And to avoid a conflict the remains of the tsar, his family and their faithful servants, where called anonymous victims of the Russian revolution. The president Boris Yeltsin- which was the Communist party chief in Ekatrinebourg in 1977, destroyed the Ipatjevhouse, there the Russian royal family was murdered, he condemned the murder but stuck to the official church description of the remains as unnamed political victims of the Russian revolution. In the early hours of July 17, 1918 the imperial family, with servants where led down into the cellar there they where shot on direct command from Lenin. The bodies where drowned in acids and shopped to paces an thrown in a deserted mine. After some time they whore brought up again and buried outside Ekatrinebourg, and it was very secret. After Soviet's end the bodies where found, and prince Philip of Britain, who is one of the closest relatives to the late empresses of Russia. To identify Nicholas body was harder, because almost ever close relative was murdered in 1918. But at last they found a relative who volunteered. In the last minute president Yeltsin change his mind and decided to go to the funeral even when the church wished he not to attend. "The truth (about the execution) was concealed for 80 years," Yeltsin said a week before when the bones were prepared for burial in a church in Ekatrinebourg, " I was told nothing. And tomorrow, the truth should be told, an I should take part." The funeral was held on July 17, 1998.
  Children	1. Olga von Holstein-Gottorp,   b. 3 Nov 1895   d. 17 Jul 1918, Ekaterinburg (Age 22 years)   2. Tatiana von Holstein-Gottorp,   b. 29 May 1897   d. 17 Jul 1918, Ekaterinburg (Age 21 years)   3. Maria von Holstein-Gottorp,   b. 14 Jun 1899   d. 17 Jul 1918, Ekaterinburg (Age 19 years)   4. Anastasia von Holstein-Gottorp,   b. 5 Jun 1901   d. 17 Jul 1918, Ekaterinburg (Age 17 years)   5. Aleksej von Holstein-Gottorp,   b. 30 Jul 1904, Peterhof d. 17 Jul 1918, Ekaterinburg (Age 13 years)
  Family ID	F2373	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

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  Alix had, for one, part kept a close correspondence and friendship with Nicholas of Russia, after meeting when her sister Elizabeth married Nicholas' uncle. Alexandra considered Nicholas to be her "Prince Charming" It seemed like a dream come true when her asked her to marry him in 1894. Here is a picture of them together during their courtship Perhaps, one of the toughest things for Alix to do when she decided to accept Nicholas' marriage proposal was she needed to change her faith. She was a devout Lutheran and her faith was a great part of her life. Luckily, Queen Victoria acted as a go between for the two young lovers, and convinced Alix that it was fine. However, many times during her life she would feel guilty for it. This seemingly wonderful courtship changed drastically soon after the engagement when Alexander III suddenly died and Nicholas II became to Czar. As a result, Alix and Nicholas had to immediately marry and Alix had to convert to the Orthodox faith. This was sudden for the young couple who obviously could have used more time during their engagement. But, the couple had to be married so Nicholas could take-over the job he "dreaded" and "was never prepared for." So, immediately after the death of Alexander III Nicholas and his beloved Alix, whom he called "Sunny" married. Alix confided in her diary that the wedding was like "the continuation of the funeral, only I was wearing white." This was not a good start for such a sudden marriage in the first place. Alexandra suddenly was transformed from a small German princess to the Tsarina and "matuska" or mother of all Russian people. Alexandra was severely attacked by critics, however, who believed she was prone to religious hysteria and her favouring of Rasputin did not improve her ranks in Russian society. As a result, she became more focused on her family and when she did appear in public she was always seen frowning. Perhaps her turning more to her family led to her downfall. Her family was one of her greatest pleasures yet she could never produce a male heir. Finally, in 1904, after her four daughters were born: Olga, Tatiana, Marie, and Anastasia, Alexandra produced a male heir- Alexis. Her happiness turned to sorrow when she found that Alexis was afflicted with haemophilia, which meant that the blood couldn't clot and therefore could be life threatening. As a result, when Rasputin came to St. Petersburg in 1905, and said he could cure Alexis of the disease she immediately put all her trust in him, despite his bad reputation of being a drunkard and a womaniser, she gave him great influence in key government affairs. Finally, what made people hate her more was when World War One started. They alleged Alexandra was a German spy working for the government. This played an even stronger role in the government as Nicholas went away to the front the Tsarina took over the government. When Nicholas abdicated Alexandra and he both became prisoners of the provisional government and later the Bolsheviks. It was during this time the family really came together. Nicholas and Alexandra's true heart felt love came through as the family learned to manage with the awful conditions in Siberia where they were imprisoned. As they were born in love so they died on July 17, 1918 at the hands of the Bolshevik bayonets. Like her husband, Alexandra is also being considered for canonisation by the Russian Orthodox Church while the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad does recognise them as saints. Canonized by the Orthodox Church in 1981.