![]() ![]() ![]() In her youth, she was a part of the social life of St. Courtesy: Beinecke LibraryĪccording to her memoirs, Buxhoeveden's father, Karlos Buxhoeveden, was the Russian minister in Copenhagen, Denmark during World War I. ![]() As a child, Sophie shared picnics and mushroom hunts with other famous players in the tragic story such as Anna Vyrubova, Felix Yussoupov, Dmitri Pavlovich, and the sons of poet Konstantin Romanov.īaroness Sophie Buxhoeveden, right, with fellow lady in waiting Countess Anastasia Hendrikova, left, who was later shot by Bolsheviks in 1918.īaroness Sophie Buxhoeveden, far right, with, from left to right, the Grand Duchesses Anastasia, Tatiana, Maria, and Olga of Russia at an official event in 1915. In her book Before the Storm, Sophie describes a side of old Russia seldom seen elsewhere, a family in the old-fashioned provincial country life of the gentry in the years before the revolution. She was the author of three memoirs about the imperial family and about her own escape from Russia. Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden, also known as Sophia Karlovna Buxhoeveden (Russian: София Карловна Буксгевден, SeptemNovember 26, 1956), was a lady in waiting to Tsarina Alexandra of Russia. ![]()
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