medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Diana Wright wrote:
> [log in to unmask] wrote:
>> the Grand Duchess Elizabeth (Princess
>> Alexandra Luise Alice of Hesse) granddaughter of Queen Victoria who
>> become a nun and founded a Moscow convent after the assassination of
>> her Russian husband . She was martyred by the Bolsheviks. Victoria, who
>> had raised her in England, had her relics removed
>> from the Soviet Union and transported to Jerusalem where they are
>> now venerated in the church of Saint Mary Magdalene in the Garden of
>> Gethsemane.
>
> Can you clarify the history? Victoria died in 1901, some years before
> there was a Soviet Union.
Rather more to the point, 1901 is before there were any Bolsheviks! The
split of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party into Bolsheviks and
Mensheviks occurred in 1903 at the Party Congress in London.
John Briggs
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