Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. Biography
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This book is the life story of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna (1864-1918) - a German princess - daughter of the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, wife of the Moscow Governor-General Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, elder sister of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.
After the death of her husband, who was blown up in the Kremlin in 1905 by a terrorist bomb, she devoted herself to charity, founded the Marfo-Mariinsky monastery of sisters of mercy in Ordynka, during the First World War she formed sanitary trains, created infirmaries, warehouses of medicines, etc. In the spring of 1918 she was arrested, taken to the Urals and on the night of July 18 thrown alive into a mine near Alapaevsk. Buried in Jerusalem. She was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. Vera Maerova, a historian and writer who hid behind a pseudonym, has written the most complete biography of Elizabeth Feodorovna to date. Strangely, although the name of the Grand Duchess appears frequently in memoirs of the life of the royal family, and her martyrdom made her a saint, this biography remains to this day the only complete study of the Grand Duchess' life.
After the death of her husband, who was blown up in the Kremlin in 1905 by a terrorist bomb, she devoted herself to charity, founded the Marfo-Mariinsky monastery of sisters of mercy in Ordynka, during the First World War she formed sanitary trains, created infirmaries, warehouses of medicines, etc. In the spring of 1918 she was arrested, taken to the Urals and on the night of July 18 thrown alive into a mine near Alapaevsk. Buried in Jerusalem. She was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. Vera Maerova, a historian and writer who hid behind a pseudonym, has written the most complete biography of Elizabeth Feodorovna to date. Strangely, although the name of the Grand Duchess appears frequently in memoirs of the life of the royal family, and her martyrdom made her a saint, this biography remains to this day the only complete study of the Grand Duchess' life.
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