Anna Vyroubova

Anna Vyroubova , born Anna Taneïeva, born in 1884, died in 1964. Young lady of honor, friend and confidante of the tsarina Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt.

Under the Empire

Girl of a Secretary of State, on the councils of the tsarina, it will marry the lieutenant Alexis Vyroubov, insane, a notorious alcoholic, after one year, this marriage was cancelled for not-consumption.

Very quickly the tsarina will be caught friendship for this young girl, the children of Nicolas II of Russia will adopt it, it will be their friend and will take part in their plays. Anna Vyroubova will have a great influence on Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt. According to Pierre Gilliard, Anna Vyroubova “was deprived of intelligence and of understanding, it was let go to its ill-considered impulses, its opinions on people and the things were only absolute. An impression was enough to fix its limited and puerile conviction. Immediately it classified people in good or bad, which amounted saying friends or enemies” ( the tragedy destiny of Nicolas II and its family of Pierre Gilliard).

In 1909, Anna Vyroubova met Raspoutine in the large-duchess Militza of Montenegro. Consequently, Anna Vyroubova, fragile and very influenceable young woman, were envoûtée by Raspoutine. Surrounded women of the Russian high-company, it received the staretz in its white small house located close to the palate of Tsarskoïe Selo. Anna Vyroubova reports with the tsarina qualities out of the commun run of Grichka. With other women, it will follow the staretz at the time of its voyage in Siberia (1911). Anna Vyroubova will present Raspoutine to the imperial family (October 13rd 1906) and it was in measurement, later, to involve themselves in the family businesses and policies of the Russia.

Under the Revolution of October

Kerensky put a certain distance between Anna Vyroubova and the palate of Tsarskoïe-Selo. At the time of the Russian Revolution, it was on several occasions imprisoned with the Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul fortress, each time it found freedom for a short moment. It was, irony of fate imprisoned in the compartment of the imperial yacht, the Pole star . Then, it was withdrawn with Pétrograd, where it lived with a great discretion, it became the friend of the writer Alekseï Maksimovitch Gorki who advised to him to write his Memories.

The exile

Again continued by the Bolsheviks, Anna Vyroubova settled in Finland, where she lived in the absolute peace. It died out at the 80 years age.

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Internal bonds

  • Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt

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