Empress Maria Fedorovna. Bokhanov A.

This book of an outstanding Russian historian A.N. Bokhanova is dedicated to an amazing woman who lived a large, similar simultaneously to a fairy tale and an adventure novel of life. The daughter -in -law of Emperor Alexander II, wife of Emperor Alexander III, mother of Emperor Nicholas II. Empress Maria was most of her earthly being at that social height where the fate of states, empires and peoples performed. And she fully felt the inexorable course of the time, becoming in the 20th century one of the first victims of the merciless “wheel of history”. But this little woman was able to overcome the seemingly insurmountable, learned to find a ray of light of hope even in the impenetrable darkness of the surrounding reality.

She withstood. She survived. Until the last hour of earthly life, she remained a Russian queen, preserving compassion for human grief in her heart, love for Russia, faith in God and hope for His mercy.