Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia[1] (born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine; 1 November 1864 – 18 July 1918) was the second daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse. Through her mother, she was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
| Princess Elisabeth | |||||
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| Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia | |||||
 Photograph by Charles Bergamasco, 1885 | |||||
| Born | Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine 1 November 1864 Bessungen, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Confederation | ||||
| Died | 18 July 1918 (aged 53) Alapayevsk, Russian SFSR | ||||
| Burial | Church of Mary Magdalene, Gethsemane, Jerusalem | ||||
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| House | Hesse-Darmstadt | ||||
| Father | Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse by Rhine | ||||
| Mother | Princess Alice of the United Kingdom | ||||
| Religion | Russian Orthodox Previously Lutheran | ||||
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In 1884, Elisabeth married Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Empress Maria Alexandrovna. As an older sister of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, the last Russian Empress, Elisabeth was very popular in Russian society for her beauty and charity works helping the poor.
After her husband was assassinated by socialist revolutionaries in 1905, Elisabeth forgave Sergei's murderer. Afterwards, she left the Romanov imperial dynasty and became a nun. In 1918, she was arrested and murdered by Bolsheviks. In 1981, she was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, and in 1992 by the Moscow Patriarchate.[2]
References
change- ↑ Kulikowski, Mark (1993-01-01). "Edvard Radzinsky. The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II. Translated by Marian Schwartz. New York: Doubleday, 1992. 462 pp. Illustrations. $25.00". Russian History. 20 (4): 320–322. doi:10.1163/187633193x00478. ISSN 0094-288X.
- ↑ "The Life and Tragedy of Alexandra - Chapter XVI - The Empress and Her Family". www.alexanderpalace.org. Retrieved 2024-11-28.