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The remains of Empress Maria Fyodorovna are to make a final journey back to her adopted country, 80 years after her death. The Danish-born mother of Russia's last tsar Nicholas II will be buried in St. Peter and Paul's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, in the same cathedral as her husband and son, on September 26, 2006, in keeping with an ordinance issued by President Vladimir Putin. 
Denmark's Queen Margarethe has given her consent for the remains to be sent, at the request of Russia and the former Russian royal
family, the Romanovs.Empress Maria Fyodorovna was born Princess Dagmar of Denmark. She married Tsar Alexander III and had six children with him, including the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II. The re-burial is set for 26 September, the same date that Maria Fedorovna went to Russia to be married in 1866. She joined the Russian Orthodox Church and assumed a Russian name before becoming empress 15 years later when her husband, Alexander III, ascended to the throne. She lived 52 years in Russia and left after the revolution. She died in Denmark in 1928 and was buried next to her father, Danish King Christian IX in Roskilde Cathedral, the burial place of Danish kings and queens. The Romanovs say Maria Fedorovna had asked to be buried in the Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral next to her husband when circumstances allowed. This is an excellent post scriptum to a tragic chapter in Russian history.
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