Which granddaughter of Queen Victoria was the last Empress of Russia?

Which granddaughter of Queen Victoria was the last Empress of Russia? Alexandra Feodorovna. Born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, Alexandra was the daughter of Queen Victoria’s second daughter, Princess Alice. She married Tsarevich Nicholas in 1894 and became Empress of Russia when he became Nicholas II later that year.

Alexandra was Russia’s last empress consort. Her coronation took place in 1896, and she remained empress until Nicholas II abdicated during the Russian Revolution in 1917. She was deeply committed to autocratic rule and became controversial because of her political influence on Nicholas and her association with Grigori Rasputin.

Alexandra was also a carrier of haemophilia, which she passed to her only son, Alexei. This helped explain the family’s reliance on Rasputin, who appeared to ease the boy’s bleeding episodes. A common mix-up is Maria Feodorovna: she was the dowager empress and Nicholas II’s mother, not the reigning empress at the end of imperial Russia. Alexandra and her family were murdered in 1918.