Zij is getrouwd met Sergei Alexandrovitsj van Rusland.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 5 juni 1884 te St. Petersburg, zij was toen 19 jaar oud.
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(Research):HIH The Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (Russian : (1 November 1864 - 18 July 1918 ) was a German princess of the House of Hesse , and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia , fifth son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and the Rhine . An older sister of Alexandra Fyodorovna , the last Russian empress, Elizabeth became famous in Russian society for her beauty, charm and good works among the poor.
Grand Duchess Elizabeth was born Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Louise Alice of Hesse and the Rhine. She was the second child of Grand Duke Ludwig IV of Hesse and the Rhine and British Princess Alice . Through her mother, she was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria . Princess Alice chose the name "Elizabeth" for her daughter after visiting the shrine of St. Elizabeth of Hungary , ancestress of the House of Hesse, in Marburg . Alice so admired St. Elizabeth that she decided to name her new daughter after her. Elizabeth was also called "Ella" within her family.
Though she came from one of the oldest and noblest houses in Germany, Elizabeth and her family lived a rather modest life by royal standards. The children swept the floors and cleaned their own rooms, while their mother sewed dresses herself for the children. During the Austro-Prussian War , Princess Alice often took Elizabeth with her while visiting wounded soldiers in a nearby hospital. In this relatively happy and secure environment, Elizabeth grew up surrounded by English domestic habits, and English became her first language. Later in life, she would tell a friend that within her family she and her siblings spoke English to their mother, and German to their father.
In the winter of 1878 , diphtheria swept through the Hesse household, killing Elizabeth's youngest sister, Marie , as well as her mother. Elizabeth had been sent away to her paternal grandmother's home at the beginning of the outbreak, and thus she was the only member of her family to remain unafflicted. When she was finally allowed to return home, she described the meeting as "terribly sad" and said that everything was "like a horrible dream".
Na haar huwelijk Elisabeth Feodorovna
Elisabeth Alexandra van Hessen Darmstadt | ||||||||||||||||||
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Sergei Alexandrovitsj van Rusland |