Empress Alexandra Feodorovna

The earthly mission of the Hesse Princess Alice, who was destined to become the last Empress of the Russian Empire and to perish martyr-like in the unseen storm of revolutionary passions, is what this book is about. Its author, a... leading expert on the history of the Romanov House, Alexander Nikolaevich Bokhanov, traces the stages of the life of Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova with infinite love and informal interest, from her childhood years in distant Darmstadt to the time when the Lutheran princess, having embraced Orthodoxy, shared the fate of the doomed Russian Monarchy. The appendix publishes letters from Alexandra Feodorovna from 1917-1918, written from imprisonment, from Tsarskoye Selo and Tyumen: messages filled with sorrow and faith from the Holy Empress - the only one in the entire history of Orthodox Russia.

Author: Александр Боханов

Printhouse: Veche

Series: Portraits of Russian History

Age restrictions: 12+

Year of publication: 2025

ISBN: 9785448453588

Number of pages: 448

Size: 216х147х25 mm

Cover type: hard

Weight: 554 g

ID: 1721866

The earthly mission of the Hesse Princess Alice, who was destined to become the last Empress of the Russian Empire and to perish martyr-like in the unseen storm of revolutionary passions, is what this book is about. Its author, a leading expert on the history of the Romanov House, Alexander Nikolaevich Bokhanov, traces the stages of the life of Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova with infinite love and informal interest, from her childhood years in distant Darmstadt to the time when the Lutheran princess, having embraced Orthodoxy, shared the fate of the doomed Russian Monarchy. The appendix publishes letters from Alexandra Feodorovna from 1917-1918, written from imprisonment, from Tsarskoye Selo and Tyumen: messages filled with sorrow and faith from the Holy Empress - the only one in the entire history of Orthodox Russia.

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