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The Romanov Empress
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Princess Dagmar of Denmark travels to Russia, converts to Orthodoxy and becomes Maria Feodorovna, wife of the future Alexander III. The assassination of Alexander II hardens the new tsar’s commitment to autocracy, while Maria builds a family and public role within the imperial court. After her husband’s death, she watches her son Nicholas II struggle with reform, war and revolutionary opposition. Her conflict with Empress Alexandra and alarm at Rasputin deepen as World War I brings military and domestic collapse. The novel carries Maria from court splendour to exile, using the dowager empress’s viewpoint to trace the final decades of Romanov rule.
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