THE ROMANOV EMPRESS: A Novel of Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia

The Romanov Empress reveals the intimate story of this tsarina, whose
courage steered her through privilege and tragedy to become one of the
Romanov's most revered figures.

The three-hundred year old Romanov dynasty came to a savage finale with
the execution of Nicholas II, Alexandra, and their children. Their fate
overshadowed other members of the Imperial family who managed to escape one of the most famous survivors was Nicholas's mother, Dowager
Empress Marie, known in her family as Minnie.
Born in Denmark, Minnie was a minor royal figure until her father inherited
the Danish throne. Her first betrothal to the Romanov heir ended in tragedy,
compelling her into marriage with his brother, Sasha, later Tsar Alexander III.
Their dynastic union grew into a love match of equals in opulent Imperial
Russia, where Minnie won the respect of the people before Alexander's
premature death. As dowager empress, she refused to retire from public life,
setting herself to advise her son, Nicholas II. But she found herself pitted in
an antagonistic struggle with his wife Alexandra, fighting to stave off the
cataclysmic events of the 1917 revolution.