WOMAN and TIME: Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, granddaughter of Queen Victoria

For donate Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna Romanova, nee Elisabeth of Hessen und Reine, granddaughter of Queen Victoria and an older sister of Alexandra Feodorovna, the last Russian Empresselder. She married Grand Duke Sergej Aleksandrovich, uncle of the last russian Tsar Nicholas II, and became a widow in 1905, when her husband was killed with a bomb by socialist revolutionaries. She was killed in 1918, a day after her sister, by bolsheviks. In 1981 Elizaveta Feodorovna was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, and in 1992 by the Moscow Patriarchate, as Holy Martyr Elizabeth Feodorovna.