| Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova | |
|---|---|
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| Appearance(s) | Anastasia |
| Age | 37 (when she died) |
| Song(s) | N/A |
| Voice actor(s) | N/A |
| Singing voice actor(s) | N/A |
Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna was a character who briefly appeared in the 1997 film, Anastasia. She was the wife of Tsar Nicholas II and the mother of Grandducheses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexei. She is loosely based on the historical figure of the same name.
Physical Appearance[]
Despite her brief appearance in the movie, it is said by her mother-in-law, Dowager Empress Marie, that her youngest daughter, Anastasia, inherited her looks and beauty.
Biography[]
Before Alexandra married Nicholas and became Empress of Russia, she was Princess Alix of Hesse. Her parents were Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and Grand Duchess Alice, who was the daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Alexandra was murdered at the hands of Rasputin's revolutionary mob along with her husband and four of her five children in 1916. Her descent from a portrait hanging on the wall at one end of the Catherine Palace ballroom during the musical number "Once Upon a December" constitutes her sole reappearance in the film following this event.
Trivia[]
- The purple dress that Alexandra wears during "Once Upon a December" is the same as the one sported by her figurine inside the music box.
- Her hair experiences great variation in color from scene to scene despite her limited role in the film. In the prologue, for example, it is the same shade of auburn as the 18-year old Anastasia; however, the portrait of the Imperial family depicts it as strawberry-blonde. A third still further discrepancy, this time in the vision Anastasia holds of the past, portrays Alexandra with chestnut hair.
- According to the film, Anastasia was eight years old rather than fifteen at the time of the revolution. In addition, the film also states that the revolution occurred in 1916 as opposed to 1917. This implies that Alexandra was thirty-seven instead of forty-six.
- Though she was Nicholas II's wife, she was not born in Russia, rather she was born in Germany, in the city of Darmstadt (the capital of the German state of Hesse prior to 1946 when it was moved to Wiesbaden) on June 6, 1872, making her one of the only two members of Anastasia's family shown in the film who was not native to Russia (the other being Dowager Empress Marie), and was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England, and she only moved to Russia after she married Nicholas II 25 days after he became king of Russia after the death of his father, Alexander III.
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