Who was czarina Alexandra?

Answer 1

The last Empress consort, or Tsaritsa of Imperial Russia was Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova (her Orthodox given name) She was born a German Princess; Alix Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice von Hessen und bei Rhein was her Christian name, given to her by her parents, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt. Her mother, was the second daughter of the great monarch, Queen Victoria of Great Britain, and her husband Prince Consort Albert of Saxen- Coburg and Gotha, making Empress Alexandra a grand daughter of Queen Victoria, as were many reigning monarchs of the Edwardian era.

In 1894, after the tragic death of Nicholas Alexandrovich II's father (Tsar Alexander III) at the age of 49, she and Nicholas hoping to be wedded in a small family ceremony, were herded into a very large immaculate ceremony, with many many many people. In 1896, The couple were coronated as the new Tsar and Tsaritsa/Emperor and Empress of all the Russias.

Over all, Alexandra's personality was of a sweet, and melancholic air. She had lost her little brother and sister (May and Fritte) and her own Mother (Princess Alice of Great Britain) when she very young, and had lost her happy childhood because of it. Empress Alexandra was also a very wise, and well-versed person, she loved to read and write and knit and crochet. She gave birth to five children; Grand Duchess Olga (1895) Grand Duchess Tatiana (1897) Grand Duchess Maria (1899) Grand Duchess Anastasia (1901) and Tsarevich Alexei (the Heir to the Imperial throne) (1904)

She didn't like at all societal balls or ceremonial banquets etc. She liked more to stay at home with her family and nurture her growing children. She tried her best to keep her children out of public life, including her husband and herself because she deemed the public life and glitzy-glamourous life of the Russian Aristocracy to be evil and in contempt of the Imperial court. She very much followed the attitude of her Grand mother, Queen Victoria, and also kept her home at the Alexander Palace in the style of a gentle English woman, with spaces in bright chintz silks, and satins, and fabrics, and beautiful Art Nouveau spaces as well, which she adored very much.

She was a person of many wonderful tastes and qualities even though in her lifetime, she was relentlessly harped on and ridiculed for her decoration sense, and the rearing of her children, and the attitude and esteem she held all her life, of being very prim and proper in the times of debauchery and gambling, sexual escapades that ran rampant throughout the Russian Imperial Court.

She was also a very devoute, and religious person, had many ikons and prayer books, and paintings of saints and such dotting the Alexander Palace. She liked the private life, and kept mostly away from the public life as she believed it would destroy her children, and take away the good hearts they had, by filling them with gambling, and sexual escapades and such, etc etc...

All-though she was eccentric and witty and very very serious at times, and very strict also at times, she could also be gay (the old version of the word meaning Happy) and light as a feather, when she smiled people were so spell-bound by her haunting beauty. Though most of her life was sad and painful, she did with her family and most closest friends smile like she hadn't smiled in years, brightening up the palace and servants, and friends and her family most of all.

Her life was one of mystery, and normal rationality and loving embrace to her Husband, and five children and her friends and closest family. In 1918, it was all swept away with a hail of bullets in a shabby darkened cellar.