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REBURIAL OF MARIA FEODOROVNA |
 | | Nicholas II's mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, 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. |
 | | Maria Feodorovna 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 Maria Feodorovna 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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