RT by @mikenov: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his mother Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna in Empress Alexandra’s sitting room at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Photograph taken by Empress Alexandra in 1899. Maria Feodorovna became Dowager Empress after her husband, Tsar Alexander III, died in 1894. The title identified her as the emperor’s widow.

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his mother Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna in Empress Alexandra’s sitting room at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Photograph taken by Empress Alexandra in 1899.

Maria Feodorovna became Dowager Empress after her husband, Tsar Alexander III, died in 1894. The title identified her as the emperor’s widow.

— @AncientHistorry Oct 22, 2026