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Daughter of King
Christian IX of Denmark
and Queen Louise
Sister of King Frederik VIII (Denmark),
Sister of Queen Alexandra (Great Britain),
Sister of King George I (Greece).
1866 married to
Alexander III
(1845-1894)
Czar of Russia 1881-1894
Left: Russian portraitist Ivan Kramskoi's (1837-1887)
famous portrait of the empress, created 1882 (Russian Museum, St.
Petersburg).
The couple had five
children
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Nicolas
II
1868-1918 |
George
1871-1899 |
Xenia
1875-1960 |
Michael
1878-1918 |
Olga
1882-1960 |
Czar of
Russia
1894-1917
1894 married to Alix (Alicky)
Princess of Hessen
1872-1918
Grandchild of Queen Victoria
of Great Britain
Five children
Olga, Tatiana, Maria,
Anastasia and Alex
Parents and children
murdered
in Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk)
16th July 1918
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Died of
TB in
Trans-Caucasia
28 years old
Unmarried
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Grand
Duchess
1894 married to
her uncle
Alexander
(Sandro)
1866-1933
Grand Duke
Seven children
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Grand
Duke
murdered July 1918
1911 married to
Countess
Nathalia Brassova
(1880-1952)
One son
George
(1910-1931)
(Died in a car accident)
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Grand
Duchess
(1882-1962)
1901 married to
Peter
Duke of Oldenburg
(1868-1924)
1916 married to
Nicolai Kulikowsky
(1881-1958)
Both died in Canada
Two sons
Thikon and Guri
born 1917 and 1919
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Princess Dagmar of Denmark was
originally engaged to be married to the Grand Duke Nicolas, within the family
always called Nixa. Nixa should have succeeded his father, Czar Alexander
II, but suffering from a fragile health he died in 1865 in France, before he
married the Danish princess. It was then hastily arranged by the Danish
and Russian courts, that Princess Dagmar would instead marry Nixa's younger
brother, Grand Duke Alexander, who would later become Czar Alexander III of
Russia -- and Princess Dagmar would thus still be Czarina of Russia.
Unfortunately it has been
impossible to find stamps showing The Imperial Couple and their children, so
I will instead show some photos of the family. Click on any photo to see enlargements. All
links open a new window.
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However, in 1998, in connection with a ceremonial interment in the Peter and
Paul Fortification in St. Petersburg, Russia issued one stamp showing Czar Nicolas II, commemorating
the murdering 80 years earlier. On the adjoined tabs is shown a fragment
of a painting of his family. The full painting is available on a souvenir sheet from the Marshall Islands,
see below.
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- Russia 1998. Czar Nicholas II, and his family.
Princess Dagmar
and Nixa
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The Czarina
with her family
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Two sisters, the Czarina & Queen Alexandra 1874
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In St. Petersburg
1875
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Princess Dagmar and Alexander
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At the death of his father Czar Alexander
III in 1894, their eldest son Nicolas became Czar of Russia as Nicolas II. That same year he married Princess Alix
(Alicky) of Hessen, a grand-child of
Queen Victoria of England. The young couple had five children, Olga, Tatiana,
Maria, Anastasia and Alex.
Czar Nicolas II
and his son
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Painting of
the Czarina |
Czarina Alicky
and Children
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Coronation of Nicholas
and Alexandra
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They were all murdered on 16th
July 1918 in Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) in the Ural. Russia turned into the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, directed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
(Lenin). The murdered Czar family's earthly remains were destroyed. And the rest is history.
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Czarina Dagmar, the mother of
the killed Czar, survived the murdering and was later evacuated to Denmark after having
lived in Russia for 52 years. She lived for another 10 years and died in 1928 in
Copenhagen. She is currently buried in Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark. With
her death, the Glücksburg-era in Russia was
definitively over.
The Czarina had always wanted to be buried in St. Petersburg
next to her husband, Czar Alexander III, but Lenin and the
communists did not grant her this honour.
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However, on September 28, 2006, 78 years after her passing, the Czarina
was reburied in St. Petersburg. Read
more about the event on the website of the Danish Ministry for
Foreign Affairs.
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Following a memorial service in St. Isaac's
Cathedral of St. Petersburg, her coffin will be transferred to be
buried next to her husband, the Czar Alexander III, in the St.
Peter & Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg. The services in St. Petersburg
was
attended by Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of
Denmark. May the Czarina
finally rest in peace. For three generations, Russia ignored her fate. But the mood is
changing as the Government tries to heal the wounds of history, so that
now Dagmar is going home at last. The interment of Empress Feodorovna in
the Peter and Paul Fortress represents Russia's final atonement to its
last czar.
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Russia 2002. St. Isaac's Cathedral, St. Petersburg, where
the memorial service will be held on 28th September
2006.
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Russia 1995. Peter and Paul Fortification.
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As an aside, it is worth mentioning that the famous
bridge in Paris, Pont Alexandre III, spanning the River Seine and
connecting the Champs-Élysées quarter and the Invalides and
Eiffel Tower quarter, is named after Czar Alexander III of Russia.
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The foundation stone of the bridge was laid in October 1896 by the
Czar's son, Nicholas (II), who had succeeded his father Czar
Alexander III on the Russian throne --
and eventually murdered in Yekaterinburg. Czar Nicholas is
pictured on the above Russian stamp from 1998.
The style of the bridge (Art Nouveau) reflects the Grand Palais,
to which it leads on the right bank of the River Seine.
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- France 1949. Air Post. Pont Alexandre III.
In commemoration of the murdering on 16th July 1918, the Marshall
Islands issued on 17th July 1998 this booklet pane and souvenir sheet, describing the
life of the last Russian Czar Nicholas II. The
information given here is from the Internet, and the booklet with
the integral souvenir sheet should be available from the below
link.
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Number
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Denomination
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Description
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| 658 |
60c |
Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II |
| 659 |
60c |
Russo-Japanese War and the Cruiser
Varyag |
| 660 |
60c |
The Tsar's 1905 Manifesto |
| 661 |
60c |
The Peasant Sower and Rasputin |
| 662 |
60c |
Tsar with Soldiers at the Front |
| 663 |
60c |
Ipateva House in Ekaterinburg and
the Tsar's Abdication |
| 664 |
$3 |
Souvenir sheet with portrait of Czar Nicholas II and
his Family. |
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