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Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine; 1 November 1864 – 18 July 1918) was a German Hessian and Rhenish princess of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine.
Princess Elisabeth’s death deeply devastated her father, Grand Duke Ernst of Hesse and by Rhine, who viewed her as "the sunshine of his life." A 1901 portrait by the French Symbolist painter Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola of Princess Elisabeth with her mother, Victoria Melita.
Elizabeth Feodorovna, the Sister Barbara and Prince John Konstantinovich's fingers of the right hands were folded in the sign of the cross. On the Grand Duchess's breast there was a picture of Jesus Christ set with gemtones , and in the pocket of Prince John Konstantinovich's coat there was an icon given to him by John of Kronstadt .
Forced to defend Sergei against rumors of discord, Elizabeth Feodorovna was devoted to her husband and treasured his memory after his death. Sergei's niece and foster-daughter Maria wrote about them: "she [Ella] and my uncle seemed never very intimate. They met for the most part only at meals and by day avoided being alone together.
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The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death [2] [3] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.
Queen Elizabeth II officially died of "old age," according to her death certificate that was released by the National Records of Scotland on Sept. 29.
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