HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Detailed explanation-1: -Alexandra, Russian in full Aleksandra Fyodorovna, original German name Alix, Prinzessin (princess) von Hesse-Darmstadt, (born June 6, 1872, Darmstadt, Germany-died July 17, 1918, Yekaterinburg, Russia), consort of the Russian emperor Nicholas II .
Detailed explanation-2: -Alexandra Fyodorovna, the daughter of Louis IV, the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, was born in Germany on 6th June, 1872. Alexandra, the grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, married Nicholas II, the Tsar of Russia, in October, 1894.
Detailed explanation-3: -Rasputin was a Serbian monk. He became famous because he healed the only heir of the Romanov dynasty Alexei who was suffering from haemophilia. Thereafter he became an advisor to Tsarina Alexandra and Tsar Nicholas II.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nicholas was of primarily German and Danish descent, his last ethnically Russian ancestor being Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (1708–1728), daughter of Peter the Great.
Detailed explanation-5: -The languages used by the Tsar and Tsarina in their private life are English and German, though they speak also French and Italian.