Princess Dagmar

A carte-de-visite portrait of Dagmar, Dagmar of Denmark (1847-1928), later Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia. Her husband succeeded as Tsar Alexander III in 1881.

Born a Danish princess, on her marriage to the Russian heir in 1866, she converted to Russian Orthodoxy and took the Russian name Marie Feodorovna.

Photographed by the Danish photographer Georg E. Hansen of Copenhagen.