Valentina Chebotaryova

Valentina Ivanovna Chebotaryova
Valentina Ivanovna Chebotaryova
	From left to right, Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Princess Gedroits, and Dr. Nedelin tend to a patient, ca. 1915.
Died	May 6, 1919; Russia
Occupation	Red Cross nurse
Spouse(s)	Porphyry Grigoievich Chebotarev
Parent(s)	Ivan Stepanovich Doubiagsky, father; Olga Segeyevna, mother.

Last updated April 08, 2019

Valentina Ivanovna Chebotaryova (birth date unknown - April 23 (O.S.)/May 6 (N.S.), 1919) recorded her impressions of work in a military hospital in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia during World War I in her journal. Portions of the journal, which included her impressions of Tsarina Alexandra and of her daughters Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia were published in magazines, books, and in her son's memoirs after the war.

Tsarskoye Selo was the town containing a former Russian residence of the imperial family and visiting nobility, located 24 kilometers (15 mi) south from the center of Saint Petersburg. It is now part of the town of Pushkin. Tsarskoye Selo forms one of the World Heritage site Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments. During the Soviet times it was known as Detskoye Selo.

Russia, officially the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is by far or by a considerable margin the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 146.77 million people as of 2019, including Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is one of the largest cities in the world and the second largest city in Europe; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. However, Russia recognises two more countries that border it, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, both of which are internationally recognized as parts of Georgia.

World War I 1914–1918 global war originating in Europe

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Life

Chebotaryova was the daughter of Ivan Stepanovich Dubyagsky and his wife Olga Sergeyevna. She married Porphiry Grigoryevich Chebotaryov and had two children, Grigory and Valentina. Chebotaryova had earlier volunteered as a nurse during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 and had taken formal nursing courses at the time. Despite the fact that she did not move in the highest society circles, she was asked to join a group of women who nursed soldiers along with the Tsarina and her daughters at a Palace Hospital at Tsarskoye Selo.^[1]

Russo-Japanese War war between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan

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Association with the Romanovs

Chebotaryova grew fond of the grand duchesses and had personal sympathy for the Tsarina, but also blamed Alexandra and her reliance on Grigori Rasputin for the political upheaval that followed.^[2] Chebotareva exchanged letters with the grand duchesses and the Tsarina while they were imprisoned at Tsarskoye Selo following the October Revolution.^[3] Alexandra felt hurt that Chebotaryova and her fellow nurses did not write to her directly while she was imprisoned at Tobolsk. "I greatly regret that I was unable to kiss Tatiana and take leave of her personally -- but kindness from (Alexandra Feodorovna) I find difficult to bear," Chebotaryova wrote in her journal on August 10, 1917. "I feel terribly sorry for her and yet it is all so painful that I cannot find the warm feelings of old, after all she is the awful cause of all the misfortunes of our land, she ruined her entire family, the unfortunate -- sick of soul, sick with mysticism and arrogant pride ..."^[4]

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Death

Chebotaryova continued her volunteer hospital work under the new administration, but caught typhus and died in April 1919. Her son, Grigory, was given a ribbon by her fellow nurses that read "From the Trustees and the Army Hospitals to the unforgettable V.I. Chebotareva who gave her life 'for her friends' "^[5]

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References

↑ Gregory P. Tschebotarioff, Russia: My Native Land: A U.S. engineer reminisces and looks at the present, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964, p. 53
↑ Tshebotarioff, p. 58
↑ Tschebotarioff, pp. 190-195
↑ Tschebotarioff, p. 193.
↑ Tschebotarioff, pp. 244-245

Sources

Tschebotarioff, Gregory P., Russia: My Native Land: A U.S. engineer reminisces and looks at the present, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964, ASIN B00005XTZJ

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[1] Gregory P. Tschebotarioff, Russia: My Native Land: A U.S. engineer reminisces and looks at the present, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964, p. 53

[2] Tshebotarioff, p. 58

[3] Tschebotarioff, pp. 190-195

[4] Tschebotarioff, p. 193.

[5] Tschebotarioff, pp. 244-245

Valentina Ivanovna Chebotaryova
From left to right, Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Princess Gedroits, and Dr. Nedelin tend to a patient, ca. 1915.
Died	(1919-05-06)May 6, 1919 Russia
Occupation	Red Cross nurse
Spouse(s)	Porphyry Grigoievich Chebotarev
Parent(s)	Ivan Stepanovich Doubiagsky, father; Olga Segeyevna, mother.