Elizaveta Ersberg

Elizaveta Nikolaevna "Liza" Ersberg (18 September 1882 – 12 March 1942) was a German-Russian parlormaid who served in the Russian Imperial Household. The daughter of a stoker employed by Emperor Alexander III, she was hired by Empress Maria Feodorovna as a parlormaid at the Alexander Palace in 1898. She used her post to obtain a position at court for her friend Anna Demidova, who became a lady's maid to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

Ersberg served the Imperial family into the Russian Revolution, staying with them under house arrest at the Governor's Mansion in Tobolsk, Siberia in 1917. She was separated from them during their imprisonment at Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg in 1918, and was taken to Tyumen, ultimately surviving the revolution. She was questioned by Nikolai Alexeyevich Soklov's commission tasked with discovering the fate of the Romanov family. Ersberg accompanied the White Army into Yekaterinburg to look for the remains of imperial family members; hiring a boatman to help her search in a swamp and a pond.

Ersberg left Russia after the revolution and connected with the Dowager Empress, who gave her a subsidy. She then went to Switzerland and Czechoslovakia before returning to Russia in 1928. She died of starvation in 1942 during the Siege of Leningrad.