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The first nun the Bolsheviks threw into the abandoned mineshaft was best known as the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, the sister of the Russian Empress Alexandra.
After the 1905 assassination of her Grand Duke husband, Elizabeth became an Orthodox nun, giving away her wealth to build hospitals and orphanages. She was executed in 1918, along with others linked to her doomed brother-in-law, Tsar Nicholas II.
When the nuns didnât drown, a soldier used a grenade. He later testified, âwe heard talking and a barely audible groan. I threw another grenade. And what do you think â from beneath the ground we heard singing! . They were singing the prayer: âLord, save your people!ââ
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The first nun the Bolsheviks threw into the abandoned mineshaft was best known as the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, the sister of the Russian Empress Alexandra.
After the 1905 assassination of her Grand Duke husband, Elizabeth became an Orthodox nun, giving away her wealth to build hospitals and orphanages. She was executed in 1918, along with others linked to her doomed brother-in-law, Tsar Nicholas II.
When the nuns didn t drown, a soldier used a grenade. He later testified, we heard talking and a barely audible groan. I threw another grenade. And what do you think – from beneath the ground we heard singing! . They were singing the prayer: Lord, save your people!