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Russian Orthodox Church believers cross Moskva river with icons and gonfalons, while making a geligious procession devoted to the memory of Grand Dushess Yelizaveta Fiodorovna near her residence in Usovo, Moscow region, 13 September 2015. German born Saint Grand Dushess Yelizaveta Fiodorovna was a sister of a wife of Russian Tzar Nicholas II and a wife of Moscow General- Governor Sergiy, an uncle of Nicholas II. After the killing of her husband by a leftist terrorist, she devoted her life to charity and creation of Christian nurse service. She was killed by Bolshevics in 1918. (Photo by Sergei Chirikov/EPA)
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