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mark, 1866, at 21 years of age. He died November 

 i, 1894. 



His son, Czar Nicholas II., was born May, 1868, 

 enthroned 1894; on November 26, 1894, he married 

 Princess Alix of Hesse, a grand duchy and state of the 

 German Empire. She is a granddaughter of Queen 

 Victoria. 



