About Elisabeth of Hesse’s Cause of Death

By Yu. A. Molin, V.E. Karev

Translation and Annotation by Penny Wilson

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-and-by-Rhine, taken in the year before her death. Private Collection.

A number of years ago, I wrote an article for Majesty magazine on Elisabeth of Hesse, the tragically short-lived daughter of Empress Alexandra’s brother, Ernst Ludwig of Hesse-and-by-Rhine…