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Sep 23, 2013 · In the 1990s, the Russian Orthodox Church elevated Princess Elizabeth and all the “Martyrs of Alapayevsk” to sainthood, and the Alapayevsk Monastery of New Martyrs of Russia was founded at the ...
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Ирина Александровна; 15 July [ O.S. 3 July] 1895 – 26 February 1970) was the only daughter and eldest child of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. She was the first grandchild of Tsar Alexander III and the only biological niece of ...
Elizabeth was born on 21 April 1926, the first child of Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI), and his wife, Elizabeth, Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother). Her father was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary , and her mother was the youngest daughter of Scottish aristocrat Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th ...
Even in victory, Elizabeth was fair, graceful, and managed to keep her revenge in check; she had emerged from the shadows of neglected, carefree princess status to become Russia’s ruler. Elizabeth's almost twenty-year reign that officially began with her coronation on April 25, 1742, proved to be politically and militarily beneficial to Russia.
The second-eldest daughter of Tsar Peter the Great ( r. 1682–1725 ), Elizabeth lived through the confused successions of her father's descendants following her half-brother Alexei 's death in 1718. The throne first passed to her mother Catherine I of Russia ( r. 1725–1727 ), then to her nephew Peter II, who died in 1730 and was succeeded by ...
Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia (29 January 1882 – 13 March 1957), was the only daughter and youngest child of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia and Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Her husband was Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and they were both first cousins of ...
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna was born as Princess Friederike Luise Charlotte Wilhelmine of Prussia, at the Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin on 13 July [ O.S. 1 July] 1798. [1] She was the eldest surviving daughter and fourth child of Frederick William III, King of Prussia, and Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and a sister of Frederick ...
