Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine information
Grand Duchess of Russia
For her niece, see Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1895–1903).
Princess Elisabeth
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia
Photograph by Charles Bergamasco, 1885
Born
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864-11-01)1 November 1864 Bessungen, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Confederation
Died
18 July 1918(1918-07-18) (aged 53) Alapayevsk, Russian SFSR
Burial
Church of Mary Magdalene, Gethsemane, Jerusalem
Spouse
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia
(m. 1884; died 1905)
Names
English: Elizabeth Alexandra Louise Alice
German: Elisabeth Alexandra Luise Alix
Russian: Елизавета Фёдоровна Романова
House
Hesse-Darmstadt
Father
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
Mother
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
Religion
Russian Orthodox Previously Lutheran
Signature
Grand Ducal Family of Hesse and by Rhine
Louis IV
Children
Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven
Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna of Russia
Irene, Princess Heinrich of Prussia
Ernest Louis
Prince Friedrich
Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia
Princess Marie
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Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine; 1 November 1864– 18 July 1918) was a German Hessian and Rhenish princess of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine.
A granddaughter of Queen Victoria and an older sister of Alexandra, the last Russian Empress, Elisabeth became famous in Russian society for her dignified beauty and charitable works among the poor. After the Socialist Revolutionary Party's Combat Organization assassinated her husband with a 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 killed by Bolsheviks. In 1981, she was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, and in 1992 by the Moscow Patriarchate.
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