Maria Feodorovna ( 26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928), known before her marriage as Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was Empress of Russia from 1881 to 1894 as the wife of Emperor Alexander III. She was the fourth child and second daughter of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel. Maria’s eldest son, Nicholas, was the last Emperor of Russia. On October 13, 1928, at Hvidøre near Copenhagen, in a house she had once shared with her sister Queen Alexandra, Dowager Empress Maria died at the age of 80. The Empress was initially interred in the crypt of the Christian IX Chapel at Roskilde Cathedral, the traditional burial place of the Danish Royal Family, but had expressed a wish to be laid next to her late husband, Tsar Alexander III. That wish was finally fulfilled in 2006, when, after an agreement between Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and President Putin of Russia, the body of the late Empress Maria Feodorovna was interred next to her husband in the Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral in Saint Petersburg in a series of ceremonies befitting her rank.

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