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
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)​
Full name Elizabeth Alexandra Louise Alice
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]