The Martyr Elisaveta was born in 1877 in the city of Serpukhov, Moscow Governorate, into a worker’s family. Her father was dying, and her mother, who worked as a laundress, was forced to place Elisaveta in an orphanage. Until 1917 she lived in the orphanage, working as a seamstress of fine linen; after 1917 she lived with her disabled brother. Elisaveta maintained ties with the Vladychny Alexeyevsky Monastery, where she prayed and helped the nuns.
On May 19, 1931, she was arrested together with more than thirty clergymen and nuns and was accused of anti-Soviet activity. During the investigation she replied that she did not agree with the policy of the Soviet authorities. On July 16, 1931, the OGPU troika sentenced her to three years of exile.
Elisaveta returned to Serpukhov in 1934. On October 2, 1937, she was arrested together with a hieromonk who was living in her home and was placed in the Serpukhov prison. Unable to withstand the pressure of the investigators, the hieromonk testified that Krymova had allegedly engaged in anti-Soviet activity together with him.
On October 17, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced her to be shot. Elisaveta Nikolaevna Krymova was executed by firing squad on October 31, 1937, at the Butovo firing range and was buried in an unknown common grave.
