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...strapping Autocrat's "Old Woman," who died last week in Copenhagen, Denmark, was the onetime Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna, sister of the late British Queen-Empress Alexandra, sister of the assassinated King George I of Greece, aunt of the present Kings of England, Norway and Denmark, and mother of Tsar Nicholas the Last. To millions of Russians she was once "Matoushka Tsaritsa," their "Dear little Mother-Empress...
...Tsaritsa of Tears." Strange accidents, assassinations, and blasted hopeswere the almost constant portion of Maria Feodorovna...
Alexander and Maria Feodorovna became Tsar and Tsaritsa upon the assassination of his father, and reigned for 13 years. "Bull-Necked Alex" was then officially known as, "The Orthodox and Pious and Christ Loving, the Absolute Autocrat and Great Lord, Crowned and Elevated by God, Alexander Alexandrovich, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias...
With the marriage of the Tsaritsa's son to a German princess and his ascension as Nicholas II, the life of Maria Feodorovna entered its final and increasingly tragic stage. In vain she strove to prevent the Last of the Tsars, her son, from becoming the dupe of Rasputin and his other degenerate councilors. Once she said to him, "Come
...young woman, the Grand Duchess Olga formed an opinion which she still holds and was at pains to cable to Manhattan last week. It is summed up by the ejaculation, "Impostor!" At Copenhagen this view is known to be held by the 80-year-old Dowager Tsarina Maria Feodorovna (TIME, March 28, 1927), consort of the late Tsar Alexander III, mother of Nicholas...