Friday, July 18, 2014

Maria Feodorovna Returns to Denmark


In 1916, Maria Feodorovna (now the Dowager Empress) went to live at the Mariinsky Palace in Kiev. Writing about what became of her during World War I and the Russian revolution, the cultural-historical site Dagmaria relates:
"the Revolution . . . caught up with her in Kiev, from where she moved to the Crimea.  It's there that she and her small court were apprehended by the 'Yalta Soviets' and kept under arrest . . .

"Following the Brest-Lithuanian 'Peace Treaty' the Crimea was taken by German forces . . .

"After the defeat and surrender of the Central Powers the Crimea was occupied by the White forces and an English fleet. 
"On the insistence of his mother the British King George V sent the war ship H.M.S. Marlborough to pick up his aunt."
For a detailed account of the Marlborough rescue of Maria Feodorovna and other Romanovs in April 1919, visit Alexander Palace here.

After a brief stay at a British base at Malta, Maria Feodorovna went to England where she lived for a time with her sister Alexandra, then returned to Denmark.

Image:  Romanovs Leaving Crimea.  From Wikimedia Commons.  In the public domain.

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