The Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, Holy Martyr, Lithography icon made in Russia

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The day following the murder of the Emperor's Family, on July 18, 1918, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna was atrociously killed not far from Ekaterinburg, together with five of her royal relatives, and the faithful novice, Sister Barbara, who followed her into exile.

Elizabeth Feodorovna was the elder sister of the Empress. A brave and generous woman, whose social life began in the period of the fullest greatness of the Russian Empire and ended tragically in the darkness of a Perin coal mine, where she was thrown by her murderers.

Eight years older than the Empress, she had been raised by her mother, and not by the grandmother, Queen Victoria of England. The mother had instilled in her children that very important principle of Christianity "love thy neighbor." Elizabeth Feodorovna earned the most sincere love in Russia, which had replaced her own motherland, doing innumerable charitable works and continually caring for the happiness of the Russian people.