Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna of Russia (Russian: Елизавета Маврикиевна, née Princess Elisabeth Auguste Marie Agnes of Saxe-Altenburg; 25 January [O.S.

In 1884, she visited Russia and the wedding was announced, although she manifested her wish to keep her Lutheran faith, which was a serious blow for her future husband, since he believed firmly in the Russian Orthodox Church.

15 April] 1884 in Saint Petersburg, she wrote to him a reassuring letter, saying that "I promise you that I will never do anything to anger nor hurt you through our divided religions...

Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mavrikievna, or "Mavra" as she was known within the Romanov family, was a popular figure, and got on quite well with her nephew Tsar Nicholas II.

When World War I broke out, Elizaveta found herself fighting on the opposite side of her native Germany.

In the fall of 1918, they were permitted by the Bolsheviks to move by a boat called Ångermanland to Sweden (via Tallinn to Helsinki and via Mariehamn to Stockholm), at the invitation of the Swedish queen.

Three of her sons (Ioann, Konstantin, and Igor) were murdered in a mineshaft by Bolsheviks in Alapaievsk, Siberia in July 1918, along with several other members of the family.

Princess Vera lived in Germany until Soviet forces occupied the east part of the country, when she fled to Hamburg, and in 1951 she moved to the United States and died there in 2001, in New York City.