Dagmar's Children
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Dagmar and her family: from lefrt to right, Mijhail, Dagmar(Empress Marie Feodorovna), Tsar Alexander III, Nichy (future Nicholas II), Olga, Xenia and George
Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia (1868-1918): He was tha last of Russian Tsars. He married Princess Alix of Hesse, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. During his reign, Russia suffered under several wars and revolutions: the Russo-Japanaese War in 1904, the Revolution of 1905, the First World War and the Russian Revolution of 1918, when Nicholas and his family were imprissoned in Ekaterinburgh, Siberia and murdered afterwards.
Grand Duke George Alexandrovitch (1871-1899)
   He was his mother's favorite because of his weak health. Of Dagmar's three sons, George was the most intelligent, within a sharp wit, a generous nature and a winning personality. He inherited his mother's viviacity and when he cracked a good joke, his elder brother Nicholas used to write it down. Years later, when he was Tsar, Nicholas could be heard at his study room, laughing alone, re-reading his brother's jokes. George became ill with tuberculosis and was sent to live permanently to Abbas Tuman, in the Caucasus. After a bicycle ride, he worsened and die in the summer of 1899
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna (1875-1960)
   She married Grad Duke Alexander Mijahilovithc (Sandro), fifth child of Grand Duke Mijhail, youngest son of Tsar Nicholas I. She had seven children: Irina, Andrei, Feodor, Nikita, Dimitri, Rostislav and Vassili. Her only daughter Irina married Prince Felix Yussopov, who murdered Rasputin. During the Revolution, Xenia and her family went to live to England.
Grand Duke Mijhail Alexandrovitch (1878-1918)
   Marie Feodorovna and Alexander III's youngets son, was born on December 9, 1878. While being comander of the Imperial Guard, Misha, as he was called, met the wife of on of his officers, Vladimir Wulfet, Natalia, who had been previously divorced from Serguei Mamontov, a musician. They fell in love but Misha's family refused to accept his realtion with Natalia, but at last she divorce again nd married Misha in 1812. They had a son: George. Natalia had already a daughter, Tata, from her first marriage. Misha participated bravely as a commander of the "Wild Division" during World War I. In February 1917, his brother Nicholas abdicated the throne in Misha's favour. By te Manifest of March 3, he expressed that he only would accept the thrne by the will of the Russian people. Misha reamined in good relations with Alexander Kerensky, the leader of the Provisional Government, until the Bolsheviks seized the power. Kerensky escaped form Russia with Misha's assitance, as well as natalia and her children. Misha was imprissoned at the Urals and was shot in the early morning of June 13, 1918, in a forest at the outsides of Perm. His body was never found.
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna (1882-1960)
Marie Feodorvna's youngets child, Olga Alexandrovna, married Prince Peter of Oldenburg, a member of one of the richest aristocratic families in Russia, who was homosexual. The marriage was never consmated and Oga began a very close relation with her brother Nicholas II, and heer sister-in-law, Alexandra. During Worl War I, she became a nurse. She fell in love with Colonel Nicholas Kulikovski. Her marriage was annulled and she married Kulikovski form who she had two sons, Tikon and Yuri. During the Revolution, Olga and her husband escaped from Russia and went to live to Denmark with her mother. In 1920, a woman named Anna Anderson, claimed to be Olga's niece, Grand Duchess Anastasia. Olga visited the woman in Berlin in 1925, but she failed to recognized her as her niece. Finmally Olga and her husband moved to Canada, where she ended her life painting and rising her children.