Maria Feodorovna Born Princess Dagmar of Denmark in Copenhagen in 1847, she was the daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and of Princess Louise de Hesse-Cassel, (the sister of Queen Alexandra of England). Originally betrothed to Great-Duke Nicholas, heir to the throne of Russia, she became the fiancée of his brother Alexander Alexandrovitch, after Nicholas? sudden death in 1865. They were married in November 1866, whereupon Princess Dagmar converted to the Orthodox religion, as was the custom, and took the name of Maria Feodorovna. In 1881, she became Empress of Russia when Alexander acceded to the throne after the assassination of his father, Czar Alexander II. Empress Maria Feodorovna was a supporter of the alliance of Russia with France, and contributed to orienting her husband?s politics in this direction. When Alexander III died in 1894, the Empress gave up all pretensi ons to exercizing power, preferring to devote herself to charitable work. When the Russian Revolution broke out in 1917, she was in Yalta. The Bolsheviks allowed her to leave Russia, and after a brief stay with her sister in England, in 1921 she chose to settle in Denmark, where she died in 1928. The hump-back model of Breguet carriage clocks was often used, both by the house of Breguet and others, such as Cole in England, for instance, two hundred years after its creation. Recently, Breguet issued a very small series of silver hump-back carriage clocks, which look practically identical to their ancestors. During Breguet?s lifetime only a few of them were made. Top quality carriage clocks were among the most expensive pieces produced by Breguet.