There have been two Empresses of Russia who took the name Marie Feodorovna:
- Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg, consort of Emperor Paul
- Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark), consort of Emperor Alexander III
Famous quotes containing the words empress, marie and/or russia:
“We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside our skin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes—and knows it.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“It is not known precisely where angels dwell—whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)