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| Emperor Alexander II of Russia with his Danish-born wife, Empress Marie Fedorovna. |
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| The Empress Yekaterina the Great. The young Grand Duchess was a pure, shy girl when she came to Russia, and soon became corrupted by the court of the Empress Elisabeth. Empress Catherine hated her husband, and usurped the throne from him. |
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| The beautiful Empress Marie Fedorovna. She is wearing her trademark diamond kokoshnik. |
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| Empress Marie, in a signed photo from 1989. |
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| Identical sisters: Empress Marie and her sister, Queen Alexandra of Denmark, often dressed together in society to amuse themselves. |
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| After the deaths of their husbands and long years of hardships, the two sisters had grown much apart, but nevertheless bought and shared a house together in Hvidore, Denmark, in their later years. Alexandra died in 1925, Maria in 1928, ten years after the assassination of her son, Nikolai II, and his family. |