Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LIFE AND TRAGEDY OF ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA-A Biography- Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden- Longmans Green...
...wait was not long, and in the midst of mourning an insignificant German princess became empress of all the Russias. Her mother-in-law, Marie Feo-dorovna, beloved of the people, was so steeped in sorrow that she paid very little attention to Alexandra; but the various grand duchesses took pains to make her difficult position yet more difficult with their resentful jealousies. Bashful, awkward, guileless, Alix, now Alexandra Feo-dorovna, disdained the gentle art of flummery, and was only took frank in her disapproval of Russian frivolity...
Most glittering and ceremonious of festivals was the last Russian coronation, May, 1896. Each in her gilded coach, two empresses followed in slow procession, the first, Dowager Empress Marie, to be greeted with huzzahs of adoration; and the second, Alexandra, with a sudden silence, variously interpreted. Baroness Buxhoeveden, friend and lady-in-waiting to the last empress, says the crowds were struck dumb with holy awe. But Princess Radziwill, member of the St. Petersburg aristocracy Alexandra failed to please, calls the dumbness "a solemn, ominous silence . . . majestic absence of emotion on the part of the multitude...
...young girl, she and her sister Alexandra had to scrimp and make over their old dresses, so poor was their father Prince Christian of Holstein-Glücksburg. Then by astounding good fortune the Great Powers adjusted the vexed Schlesvig-Holstein question by elevating impoverished Prince Christian to be Crown Prince of Denmark, later King Christian...
...Nicholas, be Tsar!" But spirit was not in the weakling. When the Empire collapsed Maria Feodorovna removed to the Crimea, later departing on a British gunboat to seek sanctuary with her sister, the Dowager Queen-Empress Alexandra...