Photograph of Princess Alix of Hesse, later Alexandra Feodorovna. She is standing facing the camera with a sofa beside her to the left. She is wearing a long dress and jewellery including a crescent shaped hairpin. There is a fan in her right hand and a painted backdrop behind. The photograph is signed and dated 'Alix 1889' in the upper left corner. Princess Alix of Hesse married Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia at the Winter Palace on the 26th of November 1894. Along with their children they were murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.