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Dagmar gradually developed a romantic attraction toward Alexander. [7] They married in October 1866, [7] and Dagmar took the name Maria Feodorovna after converting to Russian Orthodoxy. [7] [21] Maria and Alexander would go on to have six children together, one of whom, Alexander, did not survive past infancy. [7]
Maria Feodorovna (Russian: Мария Фёдоровна, romanized: Mariya Fyodorovna; 26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928), known before her marriage as Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was Empress of Russia from 1881 to 1894 as the wife of Emperor Alexander III.
Tsesarevich Nicholas with Princess Dagmar of Denmark, engagement photograph, 1864. In the summer of 1864, Nicholas became engaged to Princess Dagmar of Denmark.She was the second daughter of King Christian IX and Queen Louise of Denmark and was a younger sister of the Princess of Wales, later Queen Alexandra and wife of the heir-apparent to the British throne, Albert Edward, who reigned as ...
Between 1915 and 1920, a Copenhagen woman, Dagmar Overbye, offered to take on unwanted babies for a fee, telling the mothers they were going to a good home. Instead, she murdered them.
Sugarloaf Mound is the last remaining of the mounds built within present-day St. Louis by a Native American culture that thrived in the area from A.D. 600–1300. [3] It is the oldest human-made structure in the city of St. Louis. [4]
The St. Louis All-Stars played in the city in 1923, the St. Louis Gunners in 1934, the St. Louis Cardinals from 1960 to 1987, and the St. Louis Rams from 1995 to 2015. The football Cardinals advanced to the NFL playoffs four times (1964, 1974, 1975 and 1982), never hosting in any appearance.
With their daughters, they stayed in the United Kingdom, Germany, Malta and Russia, [13] where they reunited with their many relatives including Edward VII of the United Kingdom, [13] Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, [14] Alexandra Feodorovna, [15] and Prince and Princess Louis of Battenberg (Alice's parents). [16]
Temple Isaiah, Chicago, designed by Adler, 1898. Dankmar Adler (July 3, 1844 – April 16, 1900) was a German-born American architect and civil engineer. He is best known for his fifteen-year partnership with Louis Sullivan, during which they designed influential skyscrapers that boldly addressed their steel skeleton through their exterior design: the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri ...