One would think a Tsaritsa would have it easy. In a real way, her predecessor Maria Feodorovna did. But Alexandra was from Hesse in Germany when Slavic nationalism was running strong. This heped make a German Tsaritsa unwelcome. The Russian aristocracy did not welcome her and her arrival on the heels of the death of Tsar Alexander III caused people to say, "She comes to us behind a coffin." In addition, several thousand peasants died in an incident at the coronation celebrations. On top of it all, Alexandra did not get on well with her mother-in-law, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna.
The Russo-Japanese War was a fiasco for Russia, forcing the first steps toward constitutional monarchy that Nicholas II did not accept. Then came World War I where Alexandra's German roots caused more ill-will and helped promote conspiracy theories about the Romanovs working to defeat Russia. Nicholas was at Army headquarters overseeing a military fiasco while Alexandra stayed behind and did no better governing Russia. Kaiser Wilhelm sent a member of the Ulyanov family, Vladimir Illyich, to Russia to take Russia out of the war. Tsar Alexander III had a member of the Ulyanov family, Alexander Illyich Ulyanov, hung for an assassination attempt. Vladimir Illyich Ulyanov, "Lenin," took Russia out of the war as the Kaiser had hoped and also reciprocated for the Ulyanov family's tragedy by having the Tsar, Tsaritsa, and all of their children shot.
Alexandra Feodorovna's Wikipedia article is here.

Young Alexandra Feodorovna wearing a black dress by Friedrich August von Kaulbach (Milli Azərbaycan Tarixi Muzeyi - Baku, Azerbaijan)

1892 Princess Alix, fourth daughter of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Hesse by Carl Backofen (Royal Collection)

Empress Alexandra, her father (Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine) and brother (Grand Duke Ernest Louis) by ?

1894 Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine in Russian court gown by Ilya Galkin (location unknown to gogm)

1894 (August) Left to right - Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, standing - Fräulein von Fabrice, standing - Princess Alix of Hesse, seated - Fräulein Schneider, standing

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (Azərbaycan Milli İncəsənət Muzeyi/National Art Museum of Azerbaijan - Bakı/Baku, Azerbaijan) From the lost gallery’s photostream on flickr Filled in shadows.jpg

ca. 1906 (based on estimated ages of the children) Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia and her children (Royal Collection)

1907 Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna by Nikolai Kornilievich Bodarevsky (probably Alexander Palace - Pushkin, Leningrad Oblast, Russia)

Empress Alexandra picking flowers (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut, USA)

ca. 1912 Alexandra (Romanov Collection, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut USA)

Dancing on ship (Romanov Collection, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut USA)

Alexandra Nicholas and three daughters (Romanov Collection, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut USA)

Alexandra and OTMA on ship (Romanov Collection, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut USA)

Alexandra and Olga behind her with another daughter to right (Romanov Collection, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut USA)

1914 Alexandra in the garden at Livadia by stairs (Romanov Collection, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut USA)

1914 Alexandra in the garden at Livadia (Romanov Collection, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut USA)

Possibly Olga and possibly Tatiana early spring shot (Romanov Collection, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut USA)

Tatiana and Alexandra picking flowers (Romanov Collection, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut USA)

Possibly Olga and possibly Tatiana wearing warm weather dresses (Romanov Collection, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut USA)
