Maria Skobtsova (b. Riga, Russian Empire, 1891 – d. 1945, Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, Fürstenberg/Havel, Germany), known as Mother Maria, was a Russian noblewoman, poet, nun, and member of the French Resistance during World War II. Born in what is today Latvia, she fled, moving through Georgia and Yugoslavia on the way to France. She has been canonized a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
