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Dedicated to the 5th anniversary of GDERS UK

The Society was established in December 2015 as an educational charity focused on the history of the Romanov Dynasty, Grand Duchess Elizabeth among them, and British-Russian connections in the 19th & 20th centuries. The new society attracted a substantial number of members, friends and experts during the five years of its existence and has realized many interesting and useful projects. You can read the inaugural speech of the founder and chairman of the society Maria Harwood at Eastwell Manor and see a gallery of pictures.

A number of articles in this issue are dedicated to our heavenly patroness Holy Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth Romanov, starting with the NATIVITY EPISTLE of Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, who refers to important dates commemorating her in the coming year 2021.

You will find here a major analytical article about the circumstances of the execution of Saint Elizabeth and five other members of the Romanov family in Alapaevsk (In the Urals): “THE MARTYRDOM OF THE GRAND DUCHESS ELIZABETH: Life of a Saint and Biographical Research”, by Dr Maria Harwood.… KEEP READING

“The Last Romanovs: Archival and Museum Discoveries in Great Britain and Russia”, London, Pindar Press, 2018, 120 pages

£15 (payable to GDERS, contact our Treasurer anna.scriven@yahoo.com for details)

This book was produced by the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Romanov Society, UK in the end of 2018  and presented the proceedings of the international symposium under same title which took place at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park in June 2017. The book was sold off quickly without being properly advertised. Responding to the demand from the readers we are offering an electronic version of this book (in Kindle and ePub formats).

The Symposium was a first attempt to bring together British and Russian historians, royal biographers, museum and archival specialists united by their deep knowledge of the Romanov – Windsor relationship and the period of the Nicholas II Reign – end of 19th and beginning of 20th  centuries. The wider historic context was presented as well.  The conference was carefully planned to feed the interest of wider audiences in personal stories of the last Tsar and his family and Grand Duchess Elizabeth, canonised as Martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church and closely related to the British queens and kings – Queen Victoria, Queen Alexandra and King Edward VII and King George V. … KEEP READING