1. Lili Dehn

    Lili Dehn, or Lili von Dehn, born Yulia Smolskaia, (July 27 (O.S.)/August 9, 1888 (N.S.) - October 8, 1963), was the wife of a Russian naval officer and a friend to Tsarina Alexandra. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Dehn wrote a biography, "The Real Tsaritsa", to refute rumors that were circulating in Europe during the 1920s about the Tsarina and Grigori Rasputin.

  2. Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna Of Russia

    Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaievna of Russia (Tatiana Nikolaievna Romanova, (May 29 (O.S.)/June 10 (N.S.), 1897 - July 17, 1918), was the second daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last autocratic ruler of Russia, and of Tsarina Alexandra. She was better known than her three sisters and headed Red Cross committees during World War I. She nursed wounded soldiers in a military hospital from 1914 to 1917, …

  3. Margaretta Eagar

    Margaretta Alexandra Eagar, also known as Margaret Eagar, (August 12, 1863 - 1936), was a nurse for the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. She wrote a 1906 memoir entitled "Six Years at the Russian Court" about her time in Russia.

  4. Eugene Botkin

    Dr. Yevgeny Sergeivich Botkin, also known as Dr. Eugene Botkin, (March 27, 1865 - July 17, 1918), was the court physician for Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra and often treated the hemophilia-related complications of the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia. Botkin went into exile with the Romanovs following the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was murdered with the family at Ekaterinburg on July 17, 1918.

  5. Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva

    Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva (? - April 23 (O.S.)/May 6 (N.S.), 1919), recorded her impressions of work in a military hospital in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia during World War I in her journal. Portions of the journal, which included her impressions of Tsarina Alexandra and of her daughters Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia were published in magazines, books, and in her son's memoirs after the war.

  6. Gregory P. Tschebotarioff

    Gregory P. Tschebotarioff, (February 28, 1899 - 1985), was a Russian-born civil engineer and prolific author. His memoir "Russia, My Native Land" recounted his experiences as a boy and young man in Russia, where he served in the military during World War I. His mother, Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva, served as a Red Cross nurse at a hospital in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia with Tsarina Alexandra. Tschebotarioff published his mother's wartime journal in "Russia, …

  7. Princess Helen Of Serbia

    Princess Jelena of Serbia, later known as Princess Elena Petrovna of Russia, or sometimes Princess Helena Petrovna or Princess Helen Petrovna, or Princess Ellen Petrovna or Princess Hélène Petrovna, was the daughter of King Peter I of Yugoslavia and his wife Princess Zorka of Montenegro. She was the elder sister of George, Crown Prince of Serbia and Alexander I of Yugoslavia.

  8. Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich Of Russia

    Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia, November 24, 1877 - November 9, 1943, was a Russian grand duke and the son of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna. He was a notorious playboy. When he proposed marriage to Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, his first cousin once removed, her mother Tsarina Alexandra refused to consider the idea because of Boris's reputation: Alexandra's refusal provoked further enmity in Boris's mother, …

  9. Larissa Tudor

    Larissa Feodorovna Tudor (d. July 18, 1926), was the wife of Owen Frederick Morton Tudor, an officer of 3rd Battalion of The King's Own Hussars. Following her death, it was rumoured that she was in truth Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, the second daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last autocratic ruler of Russia, and of Tsarina Alexandra. Following World War I, she was reportedly a belly-dancer in Constantinople, where she met her husband.

  10. Anastasia Hendrikova

    Countess Anastasia Vasilyevna Hendrikova, (1887 - September 4, 1918), was a lady in waiting at the court of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. She was arrested by the Bolsheviks and shot to death outside Perm in the fall of 1918. Like the Romanovs and their servants who were assassinated on July 17, 1918, Hendrikova and Catherine Adolphovna Schneider, the elderly court tutor who was killed with her, …

  11. Catherine Schneider

    Catherine Adolphovna Schneider, (? - September 4, 1918), was a tutor at the court of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. She taught Alexandra Russian before her marriage, just as she had some years earlier taught Russian to the Tsarina's sister, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna before her marriage to Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia. Schneider was murdered by the Bolsheviks at Perm in the fall of 1918 along with lady in waiting Anastasia Hendrikova.

  12. Alexander Taneyev

    Alexander Sergeievich Taneyev (January 17, 1850 - February 7, 1918) was a Russian composer of the late Romantic era, specifically of the nationalist school. Among his best works were three string quartets, believed to be composed by him between 1898-1900. The name Taneyev (spelled several different ways including Taneiev, Tanaiev, Taneieff, and Taneyeff in English due to the difficulty of transliterating the Cyrillic alphabet) is not well known outside of Russia.

  13. Suzanna Catharina de Graaff

    Suzanna Catharina de Graaff, born Suzanna Catharina Hemmes, (May 6, 1905 - November 26, 1968), was a Dutch woman who claimed to be a fifth daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. Her claim was accepted by Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, but by few others. The Russian Imperial family was killed by Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg, Russia, on July 17, 1918.