Tchaikovsky is not a composer who is particularly associated with sacred music – this piece is rather different from the likes of the 1812 Overture 😉 and fits rather well into my calm Friday slot.
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky : Hymn of the Cherubim
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Steve Thomas
very calming… did you know we have a Russian princess buried in NM 😳 in the cemetery next to Arnewood school, everydays a school day, alas I have no more details 😔
Here are some details!
From New Milton Advertiser
Incredibly, a descendant of Catherine the Great of Russia lies buried under an orthodox cross in the NFDC part of the churchyard. Countess Helene Schouvaloff was born in Moscow on 24th November 1904. Her father was Count Alexander Pavlovich Shuvalov who served in the Royal Court of Tsar Nicholas II, and her mother was Princess Elena Pavlovna Demidova. Tracing her lineage back through her father’s family line, it appears that her paternal fifth great-grandparents were Charles Peter Ulrich, who was Tsar Peter III, and Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst, Empress Catherine II of Russia, commonly referred to as Catherine the Great.
Leaving Russia after the revolution, Helene moved to Paris where she married. At some point this marriage was dissolved. An alien passenger embarkation form dated 9th September 1936 shows Helene Schouvaloff and Andrew Schouvaloff aged four embarking on a ship from Southampton to New York. Helene’s occupation was given as milliner and her address was recorded as the Park Lane Hotel.
In 1939 at Cirencester, Helene married Noel Stubbs, an RAF officer, and Countess Helene Schouvaloff of Moscow became Mrs Helene Stubbs. In retirement they lived at Wootton Hall Lodge, Tiptoe Road, Hordle. She died at Hordle Grange nursing home on the 6th May 1992.