She was Empress of Russia. She married Nicholas II. She had five children. Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana, Grand Duchess Maria, Grand Duchess Anastasia, and Tsarevitch Alexei. She was murdered in 1918, along with the rest of her family.
The Russian tsar in 1917 was Nicholas II. His wife, Alexandra Feodorovna, or Alix of Heese, was tsarina of Russia.
Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra's long awaited heir was born July 1, 1904. They called him Alexei Nicholeivitch for Nicholas' favorite Tsar: Alexis the mild. The Tsarevitch, Alexei, was born with the "royal disease" hemophilia, passed on to him from his mother, the Empress.
While Tsar Nicholas II was absent from St. Petersburg on visits to the front during WW1, his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, ruled the country heavily influenced by Grigory Rasputin.
King George V of Great Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Czar Nicholas II of Russia. George V and Wilhelm II were both grandsons of Queen Victoria of Britain. Wilhelm was in fact her favorite grandchild, and she died in his arms. The wife of Nicholas of Russia was also a grandchild of Victoria. Nicholas was cousin by way of his mother, who was a younger sister of the mother of George V.
This depends on Which tsar you mean, if you are talking about the last tsar of Russia, Tsar Nicholas II then he married Alexandra Fedorovna on the 8 April 1894.
Gregor Rasputin was the mystical adviser to Czar Nichola II and his wife Alexandria.
His wife Alexandra.
Czar Nicholas II and his wife and children
Queen Victoria's son, King Edward VII, married Alexandra, daughter of the King of Denmark. Alexandra's sister Maria married Tsar Alexander III and Nicholas was their child.Also, Queen Victoria's grandaughter Alix married Nicholas.
He abdicated his crown and was later executed along with his wife and children.
Tsar Nicholas II's mother (Maria Feodorovna) was the sister of Edward VII's wife (Alexandra of Denmark), so Edward VII was his uncle by marriage, and George V (Edward's son) was his first cousin.This also meant that in World War I, opponents Wilhelm II (Germany) and Nicholas II (Russia) were both first cousins of George V (Great Britain).
because Alexandra was the czars wife & with the czar at battlefront, she made all the important decisions, but she always consulted rasputin before & he did not hesitate to interfere in government affairs.
Czar Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, was executed by a firing squad in the early morning hours of July 17, 1918. Also executed with Czar Nicholas II were his wife, son (and heir to the throne) four daughters, his personal physician, and four servants.
Czar Nicholas the Second was not prepared to rule a country, he agreed even his teachers agreed. Czar Nicholas came to power during what was the darkest time in Russia History. He and his wife Alix had only one true dream to raise a close knit family. Nicholas and his wife also believed that Nicholas was on the throne because of God's will, therefore we're unwilling to share power with the Duma. Rasputin was also a reason Nicholas was not considered a good czar because it was believed that Rasputin had too much power over the Romanov family.
They were cousins by birth and marriage. Alexandra's mother Alice was the sister of George's father Albert Edward. Alexandra married Tsar Nicholas II whose mother was the sister of Georges mother.
Yes, they were. On the night/morning of July 16/17 the Tsar, his wife Alexandra, their four daughters and one son (together with several servants) were murdered in the basement of the Ipatiev house in Ekaterinburg.