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Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia
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Born (1864-11-01)1 November 1864
Bessungen, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Confederation
Died 18 July 1918(1918-07-18) (aged 53)
Alapaevsk, Russian SFSR
Burial Church of Mary Magdalene, Gethsemane, Jerusalem, Israel
Spouse Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia
Full name
Elisabeth Alexandra Louise Alice
Elizabeth Feodorovna Romanova (1884–1918)
House Hesse-Darmstadt
Father Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
Mother Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
Full name
Elisabeth Alexandra Louise Alice
Elizabeth Feodorovna Romanova (1884–1918)
Saint and New Martyr, Elisabeth Romanov
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Saint, Princess and New Martyr
Born 1 November 1864
Died 18 July 1918
Venerated in Eastern Orthodox Church
Canonized 1981 (ROCOR)
1992 (Moscow) by Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and Moscow Patriarchate respectively

Grand Duchess Elisabeth of Russia (Russian: Елизавета Фëдоровна Романова, Yelizaveta Fyodorovna Romanova; canonized as Holy Martyr Yelizaveta Fyodorovna; 1 November 1864 – 18 July 1918) was a German princess of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and the Rhine. She was also a maternal great-aunt of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the consort of Elizabeth II.

Granddaughter of Queen Victoria and an older sister of Alexandra, the last Russian Empress, Elisabeth became famous in Russian society for her beauty and charitable works among the poor. After the Socialist Revolutionary Party's Combat Organization murdered her husband with a dynamite bomb in 1905, Elisabeth publicly forgave Sergei's murderer, Ivan Kalyayev, and campaigned without success for him to be pardoned. She then departed the Imperial Court and became a nun, founding the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent dedicated to helping the downtrodden of Moscow. In 1918 she was arrested and ultimately executed by the Bolsheviks.

In 1981 Elisabeth was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, and in 1992 by the Moscow Patriarchate.


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