Elizabeth Rumyantseva

Holy Confessor Elizabeth Rumyantseva was born in 1873 in the village of Ilinskaya in the Kostroma province and died in exile in the 1940s. The Russian Church numbered her among the saints at the Jubilee Council of Bishops in the year 2000.

Elizabeth Grigorievna Rumyantseva lived in the village of Vandyshki in the Kineshma district, in the Ivanovo industrial region. On 20 February 1936 she was arrested together with the priests Holy Hieromartyr Constantine Razumov, Holy Hieromartyr John Rumyantsev and Holy Martyr Anna Serova, accused of anti-⁠Soviet agitation and of receiving clergy and pilgrims in her home. She was held in the Kineshma prison and did not admit guilt.

On 15 July 1937 she was sentenced to five years of exile in Kazakhstan. In the 1940s she wrote a complaint against the unjust sentence and asked permission to return home, but the NKVD refused. She died in exile and was buried in an unknown grave.

She is commemorated on 13 August, on 20 June in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Ivanovo Metropolis, and on 7 February in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (new style).