Elisaveta Nikolaevna Samovskaya was born on October 14, 1860, in Nizhny Novgorod, into a family of a bank clerk. She graduated from the Mariinsky Institute in Moscow in 1877 and gave private lessons in French and German. After the 1917 revolution, she lived in the town of Semyonov in the Nizhny Novgorod region, where she was the chairwoman of the church council of the All Saints Church, protesting against the closure of churches, attracting the local population to their defense.
On November 2, 1937, Elisaveta was arrested as an 'active participant in a counter-revolutionary church-fascist diversionary-terrorist organization' and imprisoned in a jail in the city of Gorky. She did not admit her guilt. On November 6, 1937, by the Special Troika of the NKVD for the Gorky region, she was sentenced to execution. She was executed on November 14, 1937, and buried in a common unmarked grave.
She was glorified by the Archdiocesan Jubilee Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
