New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church
New Martyrs and Confessors of Russian Church is group of saints of the Russian Orthodox Church martyred or persecuted after the October Revolution of 1917. Their memorial is held annually at the end of January or beginning of February.
President Putin and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow at the consecration of the huge temple of the New Martyrs in the Sretensky Monastery next door to the former NKVD headquarters
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia 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.
Photograph by Charles Bergamasco, 1885
The Hessian grand ducal family in May 1875
Elisabeth of Hesse, 1883
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, 1887