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  • Countess Zinaida von Mengden-Altenwoga

    Born in St Petersburg in the family of Major General Georgy von Mengden (1878). Lady-in-waiting to Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna (from 1912). Followed Maria Fyodorovna into exile in Denmark (1919)...

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  • Prince Georgy Shervashidze

    Born in Abkhazia in the family of Prince Dmitry Shervashidze and Princess Ekaterina Dadiani (1847). Vice governor of Tiflis (from 1883), governor of Tiflis (from 1888), grand marshal at the court of ...

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  • Anna Vyrubova

    In 1905, Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna made a new friend. This was Anna Taneyeva, a twenty-year-old lady-in-waiting. She was born in Moscow on 16 July 1884 in the family of the composer Alexander Tane...

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  • Grigory Rasputin

    A peasant from the village of Pokrovskoe in Tobolsk Province, Grigory Rasputin is the hero of many works of fiction and non-fiction. In books and films, he is variously portrayed as a lecherous drunk...

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