Anna Vyrubova
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Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova.
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16 July 1884 Oranienbaum, Russian Empire |
| Died | 20 July 1964 (aged 80) Helsinki, Finland |
Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova, née Taneyeva (Russian: А́нна Алекса́ндровна Вы́рубова (Тане́ева)) (16 July 1884 – 20 July 1964), was a lady-in-waiting, the best friend and confidante of Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna.
Vyrubova was born in Oranienbaum, the daughter of Aleksandr Taneyev, Chief Steward to His Majesty's Chancellery and a noted composer. Her mother, Nadezhda née Tolstoy, was descended from Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov. Due to these connections she was attached to the imperial court at an early age. She had two younger siblings, Sergei, and Alexandra.
She was a childhood playmate of Felix Yussupov, the man who spearheaded the murder of Grigori Rasputin. Yussupov found her unattractive:
The Tsarina valued Anna's devotion to her and befriended her, ignoring women of more distinction at the court. In 1905, at the age of twenty, she was given a position at court for the first time. She went on holidays with the Romanovs in three succeeding years. In 1907 Anna married Alexander Vasilievich Vyrubov, an officer appointed in the Imperial chancellery. A few days before she was warned by Rasputin that the marriage would be an unhappy one. According to Vyrubova her husband was mad and went for treatment to Switzerland. The couple divorced within a year and a half. It is told her husband was upset after he found out she had contacted Rasputin.Lili Dehn has another view. Vyrubova's mother reportedly told interrogators following the February Revolution that her son-in-law "proved to be completely impotent, with an extremely perverse sexual psychology that manifested itself in various sadistic episodes in which he inflicted moral suffering on her and evoked a feeling of utter disgust."
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