author

Marfa Mouchanow

A Russian woman close to the imperial court, she is best known for a memoir that offers an intimate view of life around Empress Alexandra before the fall of the Romanovs. Her surviving work has drawn interest mainly for its personal perspective on the last years of imperial Russia.

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My empress; twenty-three years of intimate life with the empress of all the Russias from her marriage to the day of her exile

My empress; twenty-three years of intimate life with the empress of all the Russias from her marriage to the day of her exile

by Marfa Mouchanow

About the author

Little reliable biographical information about Marfa Mouchanow is easy to confirm online, but she is credited as the author of My Empress: Twenty-three Years of Intimate Life with the Empress of All the Russias, published in 1918.

The book presents her as someone who had unusually close access to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, and it has been preserved in library and bookseller records as a memoir of court life rather than as a work of fiction.

Because confirmed details about her life are scarce in the sources I could find, it is safest to remember her primarily through this one historical memoir and the glimpse it offers into the world of the last Russian empress.