Danish Princess Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar, daughter of Danish king Christian IX, left Denmark in September in 1866 when she was 18 years old. She moved to Russia and was married to prins Alexander, 21 years old at the time. He later became zsar Alexander III and Dagmar Empress-Dowager of Russia. Alexander died in 1894.In 1919, two years after the Russian revolution, she fled to Copenhagen and died in Denmark on October 13th. 1928. She was buried in Roskilde where almost all Danish Kings and Queens lay buried. In September 2006, 140 years after she went to Russia for the first time, she will be laid to rest beside her beloved husband in St. Petersburg in Russia.
Her Russian name was Maria Fyodorovna. She was the mother of the last Russian zsar Nicolai II.
Her father, Christian IX is sometimes called Europe's father in law. His daughter Alexandra was Married to King Edward VII. Thus Dagmar/Maria Fyodorova was George V's aunt.
This is a photograph of The Russian Church in Copenhagen, built in her honour.
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