Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia / Princess Dagmar of Denmark

[MrAntinoo]

I can´t understand how beautiful princesses Alexandra and Dagmar of Denmark could have such ugly daughters: Victoria, Louise and Maud of Wales; Xenia and Olga of Russia. None of them could be compared to their mothers´charm and beauty.

[TheAzero19]

SUPER!

[marcoz9008]

is she somehow related to Queen elizabeth II

[lostsplendour]

@marcoz9008 Yes, she is the sister of Queen Elizabeth II's great grandmother, Queen Alexandra born Princess of Denmark.

[TheLoveBabyDoll]

Really?this new information for me.I know that Irina was Olgas's lovely niece.but I have never heard about Maria

[anaclet]

At last she is in peace! And what a beautiful song.

[LucasHiltonVicious16]

I think she is Beautifull!

[EastOrthodoxCossack]

At 1:31 there is a striking resemblance between Sasha and Nicky. Sasha looks a bit thin in this picture, perhaps this was near his end.

[PrincessMelody6]

She was OTMA and alexe's grandmama?Was anastasia her favorite grandchild?

[lostsplendour]

Yes she was their grandmother. And her favourite grandchild was Irina, Xenia's daughter.

[ABritt06]

I always thought Anastasia was her favorite.

[anaclet]

@ABritt06 Well, you've always been wrong.

[Jane1620]

Czar Nicholas II and his family should not have been murdered.But, the Czar did not want Russia to become a constitutional monarchy like Great Britain.England had a middle class of people. Russia did not. I'm sure that many people in England could read and write. How many people in Russia were able to read and write? There were schools in England,where children could be educated. How many children were educated in Russia?

[RomanovMartyrs]

Actually it was under Tsar Nicholas II that education became free and accessible to children of all classes. It was under him that schools were built into factories and labor laws first came into affect that gave hours during the day over to school for factory children.

[Maverick110290]

Finnish navy flagship saluted our former grand-duchess as she was transprted back to st.petersburg.

Communist had no respect for anything.

Even if Tsar was a tyrant, he should have been removed from office nonviolently.

Commies excecuted the whole family and destroyed their corpses and threw them in a mining shaft. Commies were 1000x more evil than the Tsars ever were.

[romanungern]

Tsar wasnt tyrant...

[Maverick110290]

Nikolai II

Soldiers killed the protestors in Tsars name back in "bloody sunday".

Even though Tsar didn´t give the order, he gets the blame for it.

[Anyacat3]

True, but he did nothing to make a bad situation better. Nicholas did not appear in public to accept the worker's petition. He did not meet with Father Gapon. The demonstrators brought along their families in hope of seeing their Tsar. Nicholas left the city before the demonstration and later did nothing to differentiate himself from the Army's response. Nicholas was not interested in the people's misery and so you have the revolution of 1905.

[Igor707]

"Finnish navy flagship saluted our former grand-duchess as she was transported back to st.petersburg."

ha ha ha

As we are in the 200th anniversary of the Finish autonomy within the great and glorious Russian Empire you better spare your ammunition and flagships because you will need it to salute to your new Tsar! Here he is: /watch?v=y9G92WKoB2A

[Anyacat3]

The Tsar abdicated in his name and that of his son. It was all done rather peacefully. What he didn't do was get out of the country. But where was he to go? His English cousins had problems of their own and Nicky surely could not go to Germany. I suppose Denmark would have been a good choice, but he didn't ask and they didn't offer. Lenin's concern was protecting his revolution in a civil war. People die during a war, whether they are innocent or not.

[cesskingston]

Interesting to see a journey like that on a person's face. I wish these rarified people left memoirs for us that are more unwashed!

[Zakopane20004]

At 1:09 you see her sister Thyra and not Dagmar

[Hiikari]

Nice video!!

Dagmar is one of my favourite History characters (:

[ABritt06]

I happened to like Minnie the most of the three of Christian IX's daughters

[Balela1912]

I can't remember if I've read somewhere the reason by which a powerful country like Russia chose a princess from a small and unimportant country (at the time at least) to be the empress.

[PtolemyofEgyptI]

@Balela1912 At the moment I am reading a biography of Dagmar called "Little Mother of Russia". This asserts that the main reason for the choice was the the Tsar wanted a marriage which would not seem political. Beleaguered Denmark fitted this need, as there could be no political advantage for Russia. In addition, the beauty and grace of Dagmar's sister Alexandra had become the talk of Europe after her marriage to the Prince of Wales, and this called attention to the rest of her sisters.

[FinnMove]

She never accepted the truth that her son´s family was murded in Jekaterinburg. Yes, who really does know the truth ? Maybe the documents are correct. The conditions during the revolution were hard and a human being

can be very raw which is not always understood in the time of peace.

[lolfashion07]

Belle video!!