ALEXANDRA


Meaning of ALEXANDRA in English

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Russian Aleksandra Fyodorovna orig. Alix, Princess von Hesse-Darmstadt

born June 6, 1872, Darmstadt, German Empire

died July 16/17, 1918, Yekaterinburg, Russia

Consort of Russia's Tsar Nicholas II .

A granddaughter of Queen Victoria , she married Nicholas in 1894 and sought to restore absolute power in the monarchy. Desperate to help her hemophiliac son, Alexis, she turned to the hypnotic powers of Russian Revolution of 1917 , the royal family was imprisoned and later executed.

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Elizabeth Alexandra Mary

Gertrud Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence Klasen

Britannica English dictionary.      Английский словарь Британика.