Back Prinses Elisabeth van Hesse-Darmstadt Afrikaans إليزابيث أميرة هسن والراين Arabic اليزابيث اميره هسن والراين ARZ Yelizaveta (Hessen və Reyn şahzadəsi) Azerbaijani الیزابت هسن و راین AZB Елізавета Фёдараўна Byelorussian Елисавета Фьодоровна (Ела) Bulgarian Elisabeth von Hessen-Darmstadt Breton Elisabet de Hessen-Darmstadt Catalan Alžběta Ruská Czech
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| Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia | |||||
 Photograph by Charles Bergamasco, 1885 | |||||
| Born | Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine 1 November 1864 Bessungen, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Confederation | ||||
| Died | 18 July 1918 (aged 53) Alapayevsk, Russian SFSR | ||||
| Burial | Church of Mary Magdalene, Gethsemane, Jerusalem | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
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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 murdered by Bolsheviks. In 1981, she was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, and in 1992 by the Moscow Patriarchate.