Alexandra Fydorovna
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The Empress Alexandra was the wife of Tsar Nicholas II and the Tsarina of Russia in the early 20th century. (PROSE: The Wages of Sin [+]Loading...["The Wages of Sin (novel)"])
When Charlotte Pollard said to the Eighth Doctor, "you might just be the oddest man I ever met", the Doctor said that was exactly what the Empress Alexandra said about the Doctor soon after his train journey to Petrograd with Lenin. He also said that Alexandra enjoyed playing games. (AUDIO: Storm Warning [+]Loading...["Storm Warning (audio story)"])
In 1916, Alexandra was hypnotised by the Spy Master, pretending to be Grigori Rasputin into leaving him the Winter Palace. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"])
Alexandra was present at the Moscow beach party in 1917, a day of peace early on in the Russian Revolution granted to all its victims by the Fourth Doctor. Alexandra received an "ice cream headache" during the festivities. The Doctor lamented she was among the "doomed". (AUDIO: How to Win Planets and Influence People [+]Loading...["How to Win Planets and Influence People (audio story)"])
After the fall of the Romanovs, Alexandra and her family experienced a period of imprisonment in Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg. On 16 July 1918, at the onset of the Russian Civil War, they were murdered by the Bolsheviks to prevent their liberation by the White Army. Their bodies were thrown into a deep mine shaft in a nearby forest (AUDIO: Last of the Romanovs [+]Loading...["Last of the Romanovs (audio story)"]) on the following day. (PROSE: The Death of Empire [+]Loading...["The Death of Empire (novel)"])
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- Lynda Bellingham played Alexandra in the Russian film The Romanovs: An Imperial Family.
