Alexandra Feodorovna

Alexandra Feodorovna, Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine at birth, was the Empress of Russia as Emperor Nicholas II's consort from their marriage on 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March [O.S. 2 March] 1917. She was Russia's last empress consort. A favorite granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, she was one of the most famous royal carriers of haemophilia, like her grandmother, and bore a haemophiliac heir, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. Her reputation for encouraging her husband's resistance to the surrender of autocratic authority, as well as her known faith in Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, severely harmed her and the Romanov monarchy's popularity in its final years. Her entire family was murdered in Bolshevik captivity during the Russian Revolution in 1918. Saint Alexandra the Passion Bearer was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.

Alexandra and her immediate family were declared martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 1981. Alexandra, her husband Nicholas II, their children, and others, including her sister Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna and the Grand Duchess's fellow nun Varvara, were canonized as saints and passion bearers by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.