Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine
Grand Duchess of Russia (1864–1918)
- Fame56.9
- Momentum0.0
- Business Professionals rank#216
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- Fame56.9
- Momentum0.0
- Business Professionals rank#216
- Wikipedia32.1K
Lived 1864–1918, aged 54Germany
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A German princess who married into the Russian imperial family, forgave her husband's assassin after a bomb killed him in 1905, then abandoned court life to become a nun and run a convent for Moscow's poor — until the Bolsheviks came for her in 1918.
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Born 1 November 1864 into the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, Elisabeth was Queen Victoria's granddaughter and older sister to Alexandra, who would become Russia's last empress. She married Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the fifth son of Emperor Alexander II, on 15 June 1884; the couple had no children but fostered Sergei's niece and nephew and filled their Ilyinskoye estate with children's parties. After the Socialist Revolutionary Party killed Sergei with a bomb in 1905, Elisabeth publicly forgave the assassin, Ivan Kalyayev, and petitioned for his pardon without success. She left royal society,…
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