KOCHUBEY ANNA IGNATIEVNA (1887-1941) Handwritten letter about the revolutionary events in Petrograd. [PG., February ...

KOCHUBEY ANNA IGNATIEVNA (1887-1941) Handwritten letter about the revolutionary events in Petrograd. [PG., February 1917]. 4 pages In English
“... You should be thankful that you are not in Petrograd now, this is terrible. Revolution! Such fights on
the street! So many dead and wounded! The police are desperately fighting the people. Machine guns are
placed next to each house. I don’t even dare to go out during the day. My sister (the famous adventurer
Maria (Mura) Ignatievna Zakrevskaya-Benckendorf-Budberg; 1892-1974), who came to visit me, spent the
night in my apartment. The next day, Vasily and I went to my mother-in-law (Maria Alekseevna Kochubey,
born Kapnist; 1848-1925) to Sergievskaya (house 61). The old woman was scared. It’s good that we came
because her house was fired at by three armored cars, since the police with machine guns were on the roof.
The same thing happened with our house on Mokhovaya. Women cried and hid in the kitchen. House No.
34 of the Office of the Council of Ministers was burned. Twelve policemen were killed. Their bodies are
not even covered on the street. The fighting lasted three days. I walk, but it is a dangerous pleasure when
bullets whistle from the roofs. All shops are closed from Sunday. You have no idea how terrible it was ...»
Anna Ignatievna Kochubey (nee Zakrevskaya), daughter of a lawyer, Senate official I.P. Zakrevsky (1839-
1906). On February 5, 1917, she became the wife of Vasily Vasilievich Kochubey (1883-1960).