Dec 3, 2017
Through the Years → Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark (120/∞)
28 September 2006 | Danish Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik attend a burial ceremony for Czarina Maria Feodorovna in the royal crypt at the Cathedral of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg. Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II on Thursday led burial ceremonies for Czarina Maria Feodorovna, the Danish-born empress whose remains are to be interred in her adopted land 78 years after her death. Maria Feodorovna was the mother of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II, who was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. She went into exile in Denmark in 1919 and died in 1928. (Photo credit DMITRY LOVETSKY/AFP/Getty Images)
