Icon of the Holy Martyr Elizabeth Sculpture

The presented icon is a continuation of my work in the series "Carved Wood and Glass Icons" The icon I presented is made of walnut, the face is made of pear, the background is made of stained glass. The icon of Elizabeth exists in different variations and icon-painting designs. This is no coincidence, since the story of the most venerable martyr of Christ, namely, the name of those who gave their lives for him, is unusual. Before marriage, Louise-Alice is the Princess of Darmstadt. The granddaughter of the famous Queen of England Victoria and the younger sister of the Empress Alexandra Fedorovna, who also suffered martyrdom. She married the Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich in 1884, while still a Lutheran, and consciously converted to Orthodoxy in 1891. She was distinguished by rather tough relations with those who commit terrorist acts, but forgave her husband’s killer and, selling personal jewelry, bought a manor on Bolshaya Ordynka, where the Martha-Mariinsky monastery was located in 1909. With the outbreak of World War I, the monastery provided assistance as wounded, and prisoners of war, which gave reason to suspect Elizabeth Fedorovna of sympathy for the Germans. When the Bolsheviks came to power in May 1918, she was arrested and first transferred to Yekaterinburg, and then to Alapaevsk, where she, along with other representatives of the Romanov family and her personal servant, was thrown into the mine. There they died a slow, painful death. After the liberation of Alapaevsk by the white army, the body of Elizabeth Feodorovna was transferred to Jerusalem and buried in the Holy Land, as she wished.

Sculpture:Glass on Glass

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:18.1 W x 33.9 H x 3.7 D in

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