Elisabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt

Elisabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt born in 1864, carried out summarily in 1918. Girl of Louis IV of Hesse and Alice of the United Kingdom. Its family called it " Ella ". In 1884, it married his/her cousin the large-duke Serge, wire junior by the tsar Alexandre II. It was also one of the older sisters of the Alexandra empress of Russia and the grand-daughter of the queen Victoria of England.

If its conversion of the Lutheranism to the Orthodoxy, were of pure suitability at the beginning, it became, during its life, a conversion of the heart whereas his/her sister the empress lost herself in the superstition. Moreover the large duchess never had real influence on her sister, distressed and increasingly unpopular woman…

The couple did not have a child and of aucuns claim that the large-duke was homosexual. Elisabeth did not carry out of it less one edifying life of wife deferring her unemployed maternal feelings on her nephews and nieces.

After the assassination of her husband the February 17th 1905 it was withdrawn in an abbey and entered the orders. It was the spiritual guide of the prince Felix Youssoupov when this one lost his/her older brother in 1907.

Revolution of October

At the time of the Russian Revolution, the emperor Guillaume II of Germany, after having allowed Lénine and its partisans to return to Russia, on several occasions tried to save the Elisabeth large-duchess of which it had in his youth to covet the hand in vain.

In March 1917, the provisional government of Russia vainly tried to convince the large-duchess to leave her convent in order to take refuge with the the Kremlin. The Elisabeth large-duchess refused all the proposals which could have saved the life to him.

Detention of the large Elisabeth duchess

During her detention, the large Elisabeth duchess became acquainted with Vladimir Pavlovitch Paley. It, which, a few years before had been naturally opposed to the marriage morganatic of the large-duke Paul Alexandrovitch with Olga Karnovic Paley, was caught affection for its nephew morganatic. Together, in spite of a difficult detention (the prisoners slept with same the ground), they cultivated a garden to make it possible to the prisoners not to die of hunger.

Execution of the Elisabeth large-duchess

The July 17th 1918, after a long detention in the buildings of a school where it showed of a great courage and a great abnegation by supporting her companions in misfortune, it was taken along in a cart to Alapayvsk (the Ural). The large-duke Sergueï Mikhaïlovitch, three of wire of the large-duke Constantin Constantinovitch, (Ivan Constantinovitch, Constantin Constantinovitch (1891-1918) and Igor Constantinovitch, the prince Vladimir Pavlovitch Paley accompanied it in death. After having had the bandaged eyes, it like her companions was thrown alive in a mine shaft. The fall not having been fatal, the Bolsheviks tried to kill them by throwing large pieces of wood and grenades at the bottom of the well. In spite of this attempt, the victims were still in life. After the departure of the Bolsheviks, a man of the surroundings approached discreetly the well, it heard a hymn rising depths of the puit.

Some time later, a detachment of the white Armée arrived on the spot of the torment, they discovered the lifeless body of the victims. One of the young princes carried a binding, it is the Elisabeth large-duchess who in her great kindness had bandaged the unhappy one with her own handkerchief. Elisabeth as some of her companions died after long and painful anguish. The large Elisabeth duchess was canonized by the orthodoxe Russian Church.

A mysterious message

A mysterious message of Beijing arrived to London, this missive was intended for Marguerite de Milford-Haven. This message indicated that several coffins were in China at the Russian border. Towards 1920, the soldiers of the white army had crossed all the Siberia with the coffins of the large Elisabeth duchess and the large duke Vladimir Pavlovitch and those of other family members imperial. Marguerite de Milford-Haven, after a long voyage identified the body of her aunt and that of the large duke Vladimir Pavlovitch.

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