Alexandra Pistohlkors

Alexandra Pistohlkors

Infobox Person
name = Alexandra Alexandrovna Pistohlkors



image_size = 180px
caption = Alexandra Pistohlkors with her daughters Olga, left, and Tatiana, right. Courtesy: Beinecke Library.
birth_date = 1888
birth_place =
death_date = 1968
death_place =
occupation =
parents = Alexander Taneyev and Nadejda Illarionovna Tolstoïeva
spouse = Alexander Pistohlkors

Alexandra Alexandrovna Pistohlkors,(1888-1968), née Taneyeva, was the younger daughter of noted Russian composer Alexander Taneyev, sister of Anna Vyrubova, and wife of Alexander Erikovich Pistohlkors, who was the stepson of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia. cite web | author=alexanderpalace.org | year=| title= "Anna Vyrubova's family, a thread at the Alexander Palace.org discussion forum" | work= alexanderpalace.org|url=http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php/topic,191.30.html |accessdate = March 1| access year=2006]

Like her sister, Alexandra was for a time a devotee of the starets Grigori Rasputin. [Radzinsky, Edvard, "The Rasputin File," Doubleday, 2000, pp. 246-247]

Background

Alexandra was the third and youngest child of Taneyev and his wife Nadezhda Illarionovna Tolstaya. Her nickname was Sana.

"Sana was a very nice looking woman with a little porcelain face, and she produced the charming impression of a spoiled and self-centered child," recalled the singer Alexandra Belling. [Radzinsky, p. 105]

Alexandra married Alexander Pistohlkors, a former Life Guards officer who was reportedly famous for his cruelty in putting down the rebellion following the Russian Revolution of 1905. [Radzinsky, p. 218.] The couple had three daughters, Tatiana, Olga, and Alexandra, born in 1910, 1912, and 1914. Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia was the godmother for the eldest daughter, Tatiana.

Relationship with Rasputin

Alexandra and her husband were featured in a widely circulated portrait of Rasputin with admirers that was taken in his apartment in St. Petersburg in 1914.

At first the starets was a frequent visitor to the Pistohlkors in their home and Alexandra introduced Rasputin to many of her friends and relatives. [Radzinsky, p. 209] Later, because Alexandra's mother-in-law, Olga, detested Rasputin, the young couple had to meet with Rasputin in her sister Anna's house, though Alexandra was a frequent visitor to Rasputin's apartment without her husband. [Rasputin, p. 267] Alexandra was one of several society women who became followers of Rasputin. She also sent him telegrams, asking for his prayers or help. Rasputin persuaded some of his female followers "that they must not confess the sin of adultery, since that would only confuse their confessors, who would not understand it." [Radzinsky, p. 246]

"I am very sick. I implore you to help. Sana," Alexandra wrote in a telegram to Rasputin in 1913. In another telegram, sent in April 1916, she wrote that she was "gloomily sick at heart" and "I beg for help." [Radzinsky, pp. 246-247]

Alexandra's sister-in-law, Marianne Pistohlkors, has been implicated by some historians as one of the co-conspirators in the murder of Rasputin in December 1916. [Radzinsky, p. 476]

Life following the Revolution

Alarmed by the worsening political situation, Alexandra and Alexander Pistohlkors fled the country for Helsinki, Finland in 1916. The von Pistohlkors family had Baltic estates, among them a castle in Latvia, where they lived following the Russian Revolution. Alexandra's sister Anna Vyrubova also later emigrated to Finland, where she became a nun after the Revolution.

Their daughter Olga later settled in Sweden. cite web | author=viken.cc | year=| title= "Olga Ramel, född Pistolekors" | work= viken.cc|url=http://www.viken.cc/b20.html |accessdate = March 1| access year=2006]

Notes

External links

* [http://www.viken.cc/b20.html Olga Ramel, född Pistolekors, an article about Alexandra's daughter Olga, in Swedish.]


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