Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna

This book is the story of the life 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, and elder sister of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. After the death of her husband, who was blown up in the Kremlin in 1905 by a terrorist's bomb, she devoted herself to charity, founded the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent of Mercy Sisters on Ordynka, organized sanitary trains during World War I, and established hospitals, medicine depots, etc. In the spring of 1918, she was arrested, taken to the Urals, and on the night of July 18 was thrown alive into a mine near Alapaevsk. She was buried in Jerusalem. She was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. Vera Maierova, a historian and writer hiding behind a pseudonym, has written the most complete biography of Elizabeth Feodorovna to date. It is strange that although the name of the Grand Duchess often appears in the memoirs about the royal family, and her martyr's death made her a saint, this biography remains the only complete study of the life of the Grand Duchess to this day. 3rd edition, revised and supplemented.