Sophie Buxhoeveden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sophie Buxhoeveden

Lady in waiting to Tsarina Alexandra; author of memoirs about life at court.

Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1883

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 26-Nov-1956

Profession: lady-in-waiting

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Sophie Freiin von Buxhoeveden (Russian: ????? ???????? ??????????, tr.
Sofiya Karlovna Buksgevden; September 6, 1883 – November 26, 1956), also known as Baroness Sophie Buxdoeveden, was a Baltic German court lady, a lady in waiting to Tsarina Alexandra of Russia.
She was the author of three memoirs about the imperial family and about her own escape from Russia.
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.
As a child, Sophie shared picnics and mushroom hunts with other famous players in the tragic story such as Anna Vyrubova, Felix Yussupov, Dmitri Pavlovich and the sons of poet Konstantin Romanov.