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Nicholas and Alix with family and officers.

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Alexandra and Nicholas with french president Armand Fallières.

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Nicholas on horseback and Alix at carriage.

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Alexandra and the camera.

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Tsar Alexander III and family.

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Grand Duke Michael and wife Natasha.

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Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich with son, Prince Andrei.

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Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia (who seems pregnant), with their two children Andrei and Irina.

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Nicholas with his dog Iman.

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Nicholas II.

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Tsar Nicholas II riding a bike.

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Grand Duchesses Tatiana, Olga and Maria with officers in Livadia.

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Nicholas II, Grand Duchesses Olga and Anastasia, Grand Duke Ernest and others during a lunch.

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Grand Duchesses Maria, Anastasia, Tsarevich Alexei, Grand Duke Ernest of Hesse and Prince Louis or George Donatus in Livadia Palace.

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Tsarinas Consorts of Russia {16/16}: Alexandra Feodorovna (born as Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine).

"Alexandra Feodorovna — born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine —was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria, one of the most powerful women in the world. As she grew up, Alix would become a firm favourite of that formidable matriarch, but it would take a devastating familial tragedy to truly bond them. As it was, the life of this little girl with the reddish-golden hair began without fanfare on 6 June 1872. She was the sixth child of Princess Alice, Queen Victoria's second daughter, and Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. A seventh child, and a fifth daughter, Marie or 'May', arrived several years later. Alix was baptised in the Protestant Lutheran faith; among her many godparents were the future Tsar Alexander III of Russia and his wife, Maria Feodorovna. The Hesse sisters — sans May — would all one day make a series of impressive dynastic marriages. However, despite their excellent dynastic pedigree, their home in Hesse, in Germany, was not a particularly prominent royal residence. In fact, it was something more akin to a regally remote outpost. Darmstadt, seat of the grand dukes of Hesse, was of modest size, with the family living mainly at the New Palace — where Alix was born — in the centre of the town. There, her mother would live a relatively modest life as the wife of a relatively modest German prince. Today, little remains of Alix for the casual sightseer to the city, although her mother is commemorated in a relief portrait or two, as well as the Alice Hospital. The Russian Orthodox Church of St. Mary Magdalene — built in 1897 — now serves as a shrine for icons of the murdered Russian royal family."

Rasputin and his Russian Queen | Mickey Mayhew

(Movie: Nicholas and Alexandra - 1971)

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Tsar Alexander III

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Grand Duchess Xenia with husband, Alexander Mikhailovich, and their children.