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Anna Vyrubova
Anna Alexandrovna Taneyeva, 16 July 1884, Lady in Waiting and confidante to Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna, credited with the introduction of Rasputin to the family of Tsar Nikolai II.
Vyrubova escaped the Bolshevik revolution by fleeing to Finland. Before leaving Russia, she became friendly with the revolutionary writer Maxim Gorky, who urged her to write her memoirs. Vyrubova died on the 20 July 1964, in Helsinki.
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