Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864–1918
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864–1918) These are the remains of Grand Duchess Elizabeth and Duke John. On 8 October 1918, White Army soldiers discovered the remains of Prince Ioann Konstantinovich, Grand Duchess Elizabeth and her companions, still within the shaft where they had been murdered. Elizabeth 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 Duke... Read story 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. A granddaughter of Queen Victoria and an older sister of Alexandra, the last Russian Empress, Elisabeth became famous in Russian society for her dignified beauty and c...