Tatyana Alekseevna Shaufass ( October 22, 1891 , Kiev - July 25, 1986 , Valley Cottage , near New York ) - sister of mercy, public figure of the Russian emigration, president of the Tolstoy Foundation .
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Life Before Emigration
Born in 1891 in Kiev . She graduated from the Kiev Institute of Noble Maidens , studied at the Dresden Conservatory in piano .
In World War I, she graduated from the courses of the Sister of Mercy of the St. George Community of the Russian Red Cross in St. Petersburg .
She worked as the senior surgical sister of the hospital, and was in charge of the school community at the hospital. She also worked as general secretary of the Russian Union of Mercy of Sisters of Mercy, conducted organizational work to protect schools of nurses .
She was the spiritual daughter of Archpriest Alexei Mechev and assistant to Pavel Florensky .
Life in exile
After the October Revolution, she was arrested three times (in 1919, 1928 and 1929). Spent three years in a settlement in Eastern Siberia .
Thanks to the intervention of the international Red Cross , in 1933 she got the opportunity to emigrate to Czechoslovakia .
She worked in the social department of the Red Cross , helping Russian refugees. For public services she was awarded the Czechoslovak Government and the city of Prague with honorary Czechoslovak citizenship.
After the occupation of the country by German troops , she emigrated to the United States .
In 1939, together with Countess Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy, she organized the Tolstoy Foundation with a center in New York . Tatyana Alekseevna first worked as an executive director of the fund, and then as vice president. After the Second World War, Tatyana Alekseevna opened fund offices in Western Europe , helped Russian refugees emigrate to the United States . In France, she founded several senile houses for Russian refugees.
In 1970, the works of Tatyana Alekseevna founded a nursing home on the Tolstoy farm in Valley Cottage . After the death of Countess Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy in 1976, became president of the Tolstoy Foundation .
She died on July 25, 1986, at the age of 95 in her Tolstoy Foundation's nursing home in Valley Cottage, which she founded. Buried in the cemetery of the New Diveevo Monastery in New York State .