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Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (18 June 1815 – 21 March 1885) was the second daughter of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg and a granddaughter of Frederick William II of Prussia.
Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (8 February 1857 – 28 August 1895) was a German princess. She was the second child of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia and Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau. The Elisabeth-Anna-Palais was named in her honor after her early death in 1895.
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Elisabeth was born on 1 November 1864 as the second child of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria. Though she came from one of the oldest and most noble houses in Germany, Elisabeth and her family lived a rather modest life by royal standards. The children swept the floors and cleaned their own...
Sergei and Elisabeth married on 15 (3) June 1884, at the Chapel of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg; upon her conversion to Russian Orthodoxy, she took the name Elizaveta Feodorovna. It was at the wedding that Sergei's 16-year-old nephew, Tsarevich Nicholas, first met his future wife, Elisabeth's youngest surviving sister Alix. Elisabeth was not...
After Sergei's death, Elisabeth wore mourning clothes and became a vegetarian. In 1909, she sold off her magnificent collection of jewels and other luxurious possessions; even her wedding ring was not spared. With the proceeds, she opened the Convent of Saints Martha and Mary and became its abbess. She soon opened a hospital, chapel, pharmacy and o...
In 1918, Vladimir Lenin ordered the Cheka to arrest Elisabeth. They then exiled her first to Perm, then to Yekaterinburg, where she spent a few days and was joined by others: the Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich; Princes John Konstantinovich, Konstantin Konstantinovich, Igor Konstantinovich and Vladimir Pavlovich Paley; Grand Duke Sergei's secretary,...
Fate of the remains
On 8 October 1918, White Army soldiers discovered the remains of Elisabeth and her companions, still within the shaft where they had been killed. Despite having lain there for almost three months, the bodies were in relatively good condition. With the Red Army approaching, their remains were removed further east and buried in the cemetery of the Russian Orthodox Mission in Peking (now Beijing), China. In 1921, the bodies of Elisabeth and of Sister Barbara (Varvara Yakovleva), one of her nuns,...
Canonisation
Elisabeth was canonised by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 1981, and in 1992 by the Moscow Patriarchate as Holy Martyr Elizabeth Feodorovna. Her principal shrines are the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent she founded in Moscow, and the Saint Mary Magdalene Convent on the Mount of Olives, which she and her husband helped build, and where her relics (along with those of Nun Barbara(Varvara Yakovleva, her former maid) are enshrined.
Commemoration
Saint Elizabeth the New Martyr is commemorated on three days in the liturgical year of the Russian Orthodox Church: on the feast of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russian Church (Sunday nearest 25 January (O.S.)/ 7 February (N.S.)), on the anniversary of her martyrdom (5/18 July) and on the anniversary of the transfer of her relics to Jerusalem (17/30 January). She is one of the ten 20th-century martyrs from across the world who are depicted in statues above the Great West Door of Westmins...
Grand Duchy of Hesse: Dame of the Order of the Golden Lion, 1 January 1883Russian Empire: Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St. Catherine, 1884Paleologue, Maurice. An Ambassador's Memoirs,1922Grand Duchess Marie of Russia. Education of a Princess, 1931Queen Marie of Romania. The Story of My Life,1934Almedingen, E.M. An Unbroken Unity, 1964Portraits of Elizabeth Feodorovna, Grand Duchess Serge of Russia at the National Portrait Gallery, London
Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (18 June 1815 – 21 March 1885) was the second daughter of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg and a granddaughter of Frederick William II of Prussia.
Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (8 February 1857 – 28 August 1895) was a German princess. She was the second child of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia and Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau. The Elisabeth-Anna-Palais was named in her honor after her early death in 1895.
19 de ene. de 2022 · Princess Elizabeth Marie Elisabeth Karoline Viktoria of Prussia (18 June 1815 – 21 March 1885), daughter of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, was married to Prince Karl of Hesse and by Rhine ;
18.6.1815 in Berlin, Prussia. Death. 21.3.1885 in Darmstadt-Bessungen, Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse (69 years) Father. Prince Wilhelm of Prussia. Mother. Landgravine Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg. Siblings. Princess Marie of Prussia, Queen consort of Bavaria.
