Презентация "The Russian-British Relations"

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The relations between Russia and Great Britain

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The establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and Great Britain goes back in 1553 when the representative of the King Edward VI - Richard Chancellor tried to find the "northern route" to India and was presented to Tsar Ivan IV.

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But the relations between countries are also the relations between people.

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And the relations between countries depend in the first place on the relations between people. Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia

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And especially on family relations…

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Grand Duchess Elisabeth was born on 1 November 1864. She was the second child of Grand Duke Ludwig IV and British Princess Alice.

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Through her mother, she was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Charming and with a very accommodating personality, Elizabeth was considered by many historians and contemporaries to be one of the most beautiful women in Europe at that time .

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Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia was a son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia.

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He was an influential figure during the reigns of his brother Emperor Alexander III of Russia

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A nd his nephew Emperor Nicholas II was also his brother in law .

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a Sergei and Elizabeth married on 15 June 1884 . She became Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna . The new Grand Duchess made a good first impression on her husband’s family and the Russian people.

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The couple were close to Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna. T he Tsar trusted Sergei more than his other brothers.

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On 18 February 1905, Sergei was assassinated in the Kremlin by the Socialist-Revolutionary, Ivan Kalyayev. The event came as a terrible shock to Elizabeth, but she never lost her calm.

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In 1909, she sold off almost everything and opened the Convent of Sts. Martha and Mary and became its abbess. She soon opened a hospital, a chapel, a pharmacy and an orphanage on its grounds.

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On 8 October 1918, White Army soldiers discovered the remains of Elizabeth and her companions, still within the shaft where they had been murdered.

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` Her principal shrines are the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent she founded in Moscow, and the St. Mary Magdalene Convent on the Mount of Olives

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Marfo-Mariinsky Convent, or Martha and Mary Convent

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Everything is interdependent in our life. Countries and peoples, people and their fortunes… Maybe one day we all will be a united people and we will live in the world without wars and suffering… Maybe…

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Thank you for your attention!