Photograph of Maria Feodorovna, Dowager Empress of Russia. She is standing looking slightly to the left, holding a pair of gloves with both hands. She is wearing the uniform of the Horse Guards and the insignia of the Order of St Catherine. There is a painted backdrop of a garden behind. Maria Feodorovna, born Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was the consort of Alexander III, Emperor of Russia. She was known as Dowager Empress during the reign of her son Nicholas II.