#elizabeth feodorovna

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

EXTREMELY rare photos of Princesses Victoria and Elisabeth of Hesse and By Rhine, early 1870s

Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2023

[thehessiansisters]

Portrait of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, 1894.

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Ladies of the House of Romanov, second row (left to right): Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, Empress Maria Feodorovna (Alexander III), Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (Nicholas II). First row (left to right): Empress Catherine the Great, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (Nicholas I), Empress Maria Alexandrovna (Alexander II), and Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna.

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Grand duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna (Ella) and niece, grand duchess Olga.

(source: 📷)

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"It's always a pleasure for me when someone tells us that we sound the same and that we look alike."

Alix to Minnie 💗

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A rare photograph of Olga, Anastasia, and Tatiana with Aunt Ella during Tercentenary celebrations, 1913

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“Alapaevsk Martyrs” 18 July 1918

105 years ago, only one day after the brutal execution of the last Tsar and his family in Yekaterinburg, six more members of the extended Romanov family and two of their confidants met their tragic end in Alapayevsk.

In 1918, Lenin ordered the Cheka to arrest Elizabeth Feodorovna, the Empress’ sister. She was then exiled to different cities across Siberia, including Perm and Yekaterinburg, where she was joined by seven other people. On 20 May 1918, they were all transported to Alapayevsk, where they were imprisoned inside of a school.

In the early hours of 18 July, the prisoners were awakened and driven in carts on a road leading to a close by village where there was an abandoned iron mine with a pit 20 metres deep. Here they halted. The prisoners were aggressively beaten up by the Cheka before being thrown into this pit. Hand grenades were then hurled down the shaft.

According to the personal account of one of the executioners, Elizabeth and the others survived the initial fall into the mine, prompting one of the executioners to toss in a grenade after them. Following the explosion, he claimed to have heard Elizabeth and the others singing an orthodox hymn from the bottom of the shaft. Unnerved, he threw down a second grenade, but the singing continued. Finally a large quantity of brushwood was shoved into the opening and set alight, upon which he posted a guard over the site and departed. The Bolsheviks tried to hide their tracks and blamed the crimes on an “unidentified gang”.

Cataverna (morgue) in St. Catherine's Church. Alapaevsk. 1918 ( The bodies of the Alapaevsk martyrs)

On 8 October 1918, White Army soldiers discovered the remains of Elisabeth and her companions, still within the shaft where they had been murdered. Despite having lain there for almost three months, the bodies were in relatively good condition. Most were thought to have died slowly from injuries or starvation, rather than the subsequent fire. Elisabeth had died of wounds sustained in her fall into the mine, but before her death had still found strength to bandage the head of the dying Prince John with her wimple.

The victims were first buried in the cemetery of the Russian Orthodox Mission in Beijing. In 1921, the bodies of Elizabeth and Varvara were moved to Jerusalem.

Source: marianikolaevnas

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Three royal women who became nuns: Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (1864–1918), Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885–1969) and Princess Ileana of Romania (1909-1991).

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Happy 159th birthday to Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna (née Princess of Hesse and By Rhine), Nov. 1st 1864 🤍

“Heard just before going out by telegraph from Louis, that dear Alice had got a 2nd daughter… & that both were doing well. Very thankful, as had felt rather anxious about her, but am sorry it is again a girl…”

— Queen Victoria’s diary, Nov. 1st 1864

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Elizabeth Feodorovna at Peterhof.

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

EXTREMELY RARE photo of Princesses Victoria, Elisabeth, and Irene of Hesse and By Rhine, 1868-69 🤍✨⭐️

Source: my lucky day at the Hessian State Archives

[thehessiansisters]

Portrait of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia holding a fan, 1887.

[the-last-tsar]

Sergei Alexandrovich, Elizabeth Feodorovna, Michael Alexandrovich and Olga Alexandrovna.

(source: 📷)

[minneofrussia]

"I often think of your kindness to me and to others with unfailing gratitude."

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna - Empress Maria Feodorovna💌

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Victoria Battenberg in Peterhof with Elizabeth Feodorovna and Alexandra Feodorovna

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The imperial family in Helsinki, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland 1885.

Alexander III, Empress Maria Feodorovna and their two sons, Tsesarevich Nicholas, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and his wife, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, and Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich.