Saint Elizabeth Feodorovna and the Murder of Rasputin: What the Telegrams Do and Do Not Show
After Rasputin was killed in December 1916, Grand Duchess Elizabeth, by then a nun, is reported to have called it a patriotic act. What historians say, and what they do not.
Saint Elizabeth Feodorovna: Queen Victoria’s Granddaughter Who Became Orthodox
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, became Orthodox in 1891 and later founded a convent in Moscow. Her reasons, and her fate.
Saint John of Kronstadt and Tsar Alexander III: The Priest Called to Livadia in 1894
When Tsar Alexander III lay dying at Livadia in 1894, Father John of Kronstadt was summoned to pray at his bedside. Here is what the sources do and do not say.