Original photo-type. The printing house of E.I. Fesenko in Odessa. Thick paper. Format 2 postcards. Size 120 x 180 mm.
On the reverse side is the stamp of the Tsarist time - "Ministry of Public Education. Nurseten 2-grade school".
Fine condition, slight bruises and cracks in the image; on the reverse side there are small foxings (paper oxidation);
traces of time (see pictures).
Alexandra Feodorovna (6 June 1872 - 17 July 1918) was the empress consort of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia
from their marriage on 26 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917. Originally Princess Alix of Hesse
and by Rhine at birth, she was given the name and patronymic Alexandra Feodorovna when she converted and was received
into the Russian Orthodox Church. She and her immediate family were all killed while in Bolshevik captivity in 1918,
during the Russian Revolution. In 2000 the Russian Orthodox Church canonized her as Saint Alexandra the Passion Bearer.
A favourite granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, Alexandra was, like her grandmother, one of the most
famous royal carriers of the disease of haemophilia. She bore a hemophiliac heir, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia.
Her reputation for encouraging her husband's resistance to the surrender of autocratic authority and her known faith in
the Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin severely damaged her popularity and that of the Romanov monarchy in its final years.