Russian Orthodox Saint, Russian Royalty. She was the daughter of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and Princess Alice, a daughter of Queen Victoria of England. The sister to Czarina Alexandra, she married on June 15, 1884 Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the uncle of Czar Nicholas. Grand Duke Sergei was the Governor-General of Moscow. After her husband's murder, Grand Duchess Elizabeth sold all her earthly belongings including her wedding ring and founded the Convent of Saints Mary and Martha in Moscow, which served as a hospital and an orphanage. She devoted herself to charity and ministered to the poor and destitute. During the Russian Revolution at Alapayevsk in Siberia in April of 1918, she was murdered by the Bolsheviks' Red Army. Before her murder, she prayed that God would forgive her murderers, and at that moment, one of the Bolsheviks hit her in the head with a rifle butt, knocking her to the ground. Her body was then thrown into a mine shaft with other members of the Royal Russian family. She did not die immediately from this injury as, while in the shaft, she bandaged another person's head wound before dying. Members of the White Army rescued her remains and those of the other members of the Russian Royal family from the shaft on October 8, 1918 for a proper Russian Orthodox funeral in the nearby Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. With the Red Army advancing and seeking to destroy any royal grave site, the eight bodies were secretly exhumed and taken to the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in China. Her body, and those of other members of her family, were placed in metal-sealed coffins. On April 16, 1920, the bodies were brought by train to the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission, arriving at 2 am. All were buried in an underground crypt. In 1921, her remains and those of her maid, Nun Barbra, were moved to the Church of Mary Magdalene, near the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem. She was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in 1981 and by the Moscow Patriarchate as Holy Martyr in 1992. In her honor, there are statues in England and Russia.