Photograph of Maria Feodorovna, Dowager Empress of Russia. She is turned slightly to the right but is looking at the camera. Her right hand is raised to stroke the small dog sitting on a pile of books on the table beside her to the right. There are windows behind her and a wicker chair in the foreground to the right. Maria Feodorovna, born Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was the consort of Alexander III, Emperor of Russia. She was known as Dowager Empress during the reign of her son Nicholas II.