Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine

Names
	English: Elizabeth Alexandra Louise Alice; German: Elisabeth Alexandra Luise Alix; Russian: Елизавета Фёдоровна Романова;

Princess Elisabeth
Princess Elisabeth
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
Spouse	Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (m. 1884; died 1905)
Names
Names
	English: Elizabeth Alexandra Louise Alice; German: Elisabeth Alexandra Luise Alix; Russian: Елизавета Фёдоровна Романова;
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.