MariaFeodorovna (Minnie) (1847-1928) was born Princess Dagmar of Denmark, fourth child of King Christian IX of Denmark and of Queen Louise.
FabergŽs creation shows a close-knit family of three, three petals of one flower, enclosed in a heart, a present symbolizing the close union of son and mother, as yet unclouded by the later troubled relationship between MariaFeodorovna and her daughter-in-law.
The future problems of the young couple were already all too visible to the dutiful and perspicacious MariaFeodorovna only a few years into their reign.
Nicholas II's mother, the Dowager Empress MariaFeodorovna, is to be reburied in the cathedral in September 2006; she was a Danish princess who married Czar Alexander III and went into exile in Denmark after the Russian Revolution.
MariaFeodorovna was the mother of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II, who was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
Russian and Danish guards carry a wooden casket with remains of Czarina MariaFeodorovna during a funeral ceremony in the St. Isaac's Cathedral, the principal church of the Romanov dynasty, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006.
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