{"id":27645,"date":"2026-07-18T06:10:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=27645"},"modified":"2026-07-18T06:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:10:01","slug":"18-07-1918-death-of-princess-elisabeth-of-hesse-and-by-rhine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=27645","title":{"rendered":"18.07.1918, death of Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elisabeth and her husband Sergei Alexandrovich<\/p><\/div>\n

That night the prisoners were awakened and driven in carts on a road leading to the village of Siniachikha, some\u00a018 kilometres (11 miles)<\/span>\u00a0from Alapayevsk, where there was an abandoned iron mine with a pit\u00a020 metres (66 feet)<\/span>\u00a0deep.[<\/span>82]<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/sup>[<\/span>83]<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Here they halted. The Cheka beat all the prisoners before throwing their victims into this pit, Elisabeth being the first.[<\/span>82]<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Ryabov tossed in a grenade after them and grenades were then hurled down the shaft.[<\/span>82]<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/sup>[<\/span>84]<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Following the explosion, Ryabov claimed to have heard Elisabeth and the others singing an Orthodox hymn from the bottom of the shaft.[<\/span>85]<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Unnerved, Ryabov threw down a second grenade, but the singing continued. Finally a large quantity of brushwood was shoved into the opening and set alight, upon which Ryabov posted a guard over the site and departed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wikipedia: That night the prisoners were awakened and driven in carts on a road leading to the village of Siniachikha, some\u00a018 kilometres (11 miles)\u00a0from Alapayevsk, where there was an abandoned iron mine with a pit\u00a020 metres (66 feet)\u00a0deep.[82][83]\u00a0Here they halted. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27645"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27650,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27645\/revisions\/27650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}