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"Empress Marie Feodorovna, the 'Little Mother of Russia', was the last but one Empress of Russia. Born Princess Dagmar of Denmark in 1847, she was the second daughter of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, who became King of Denmark in 1863. Of her siblings, one brother was chosen as King of Greece, and her favourite sister Alexandra married the future King Edward VII of England. In 1864 she was betrothed to the sickly Nicholas, heir to the throne, who died a few months later, then engaged to and married the new heir to the throne, Alexander, who became Tsar Alexander III in 1881 after his father's assassination. The marriage was to her liking, the tiny, quick-witted Marie, as she had now become, proving a perfect foil for her huge bear-like husband.
She was widowed in her late forties when Alexander died of nephritis in 1884 and the eldest of their six children became Tsar Nicholas II. During his reign she was exasperated at the way in which Nicholas let himself be overruled by his strong-willed wife Alexandra, the peasant Rasputin, and the inept or unscrupulous ministers who flattered them shamelessly for their own ends. After the revolution she and her daughters escaped to Europe, and though her son and his family had been captured and shot by the Bolsheviks, she refused to believe the worst. She sought sanctuary in England and finally Denmark, where she died in 1928.
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John Van der Kiste, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Royalty bio
Yes
Period of greatest activity?
- 1800's
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- Prince/Nobleman/King
Age:
- long lived adults
Biography of famous person?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- Russian
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 3 ()
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Scandinavia
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Russia
Misc setting
- Fancy Mansion
Century:
- 19th century
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Book makes you feel?
- thoughtful
Writer's slant towards subject:
- favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
Pictures/Illustrations?
- A lot 11-15 B&W
How much dialogue in bio?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 76%-100% of book
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