Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fedorovna. Biography. Maerova V.

This book is the life of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fedorovna (1864-1918)-the German princess-the daughter of the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstad, the wife of the Moscow General Grand Duke Sergey Alexandrovich, the eldest sister of Empress Alexandra Fedorovna.

After the death of her husband, blown up in the Kremlin in 1905, a terrorist bomb devoted herself to charity, founded the Martha-Mariinsky monastery of mercy on the Horde, formed sanitary trains in the First World War, created lasa, warehouses of drugs, 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. Buried in Jerusalem. Canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church.