== Assassination of her husband ==

:"''Grand Duchess Elisabeth heard the explosion and felt the shock; she rushed outside and saw the dismembered body of her husband strewn around the square. She knelt in the snow and helped collect the remains and, almost incredibly found the strength to arrange for the transportation to a hospital of the grand duke's coachman, who had been severly wounded. Visiting the dying man later, she told him that the grand duke was well and safe, and had in fact sent her, enabling the man to die peacefully."''<ref>Ludmila Koehler, ''Saint Elisabeth the New Martyr'', (New York: The Orthodox Palestine Society, USA, 1988), p. 30.</ref>