Hand-coloured photograph of Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia. She is facing slightly to the left and is wearing a dress with a fur collar and a necklace made of diamonds and sapphires. The photograph is coloured with yellow and blue tones. Alexandra Feodorovna, formerly Princess Alix of Hesse, married Nicholas II at the Winter Palace on the 26th of November 1894. Along with their children they were murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.