Saint Elizabeth the Grand Duchess of Russia

Ludmila Vodopyanov, who has researched the topic for the past 10 years, will present a lecture with beautiful slides and insights into the life of one of the most extraordinary women of the 20th century - St. Elizabeth the Grand Duchess of Russia.

Elizabeth was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England and sister to Empress Alexandra, the last Russian Czarina. She was born October 20, 1864. She was married to Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the uncle of Czar Nicholas. She was one of the most beautiful women of her time, who knew both great wealth and status, and yet devoted many years of her life to welfare work in the Moscow slums. She established the monastery of Ss. Mary and Martha in Moscow. The lecture chronicles her life and her assassination by the Bolsheviks, the amazing journey of her body out of Russia, its eventual burial in Jerusalem, and her canonization as a Saint.