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Nun-martyr Barbara of Alapayevsk

Also known as Barbara Yakovleva

A nun and faithful companion of Grand Duchess Elizabeth who would not leave her, and was cast with her into the mine-shaft at Alapayevsk and died with her in 1918.

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Notes

Not the Great Martyr Barbara (OS-0016).

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints