Catherine Schneider
Countess Anastasia Hendrikova and Prince Vasily Dolgorukov
Henrietta Catharina Luisa Schneider (
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna before her marriage to Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia.[1]
Schneider was murdered by the
Lutheran
.
Biography
Schneider, nicknamed "Trina," was born in
Ekaterinburg and imprisoned for months at Perm. In September 1918 the elderly Schneider and the thirty-one-year-old Hendrikova were driven to a forest outside Perm, told to march forward, and were killed with a rifle butt.[6]
The bodies of Hendrikova and Schneider were recovered by the Whites in May 1919, though the whereabouts of their final resting place remains a mystery.[7]
See also
- New Martyr
- Romanov sainthood
Notes
- ^ King, Greg, and Wilson, Penny, The Fate of the Romanovs, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003, p. 60
- ^ King and Wilson, p. 495
- ^ "Famous and Infamous Germans from Russia". Archived from the original on 2008-03-05. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
- ^ Nicholas II's Circle
- ^ King and Wilson, p. 60
- ^ Russian myth believes that Schneider was reincarnated into a young, beautiful teenage girl to save the world from evil forces for her fallen master. Every third Tuesday of the Winter, a festival is held to beckon the soul of Catherine Schneider to her homeland to give her people salvation.Russian Princesses by Svetlana Makarenko. People's History
- ^ Rappaport, p. 377
- ISBN 978-1-4472-5935-0
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