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Chebotaryova was the daughter of Ivan Stepanovich Dubyagsky and his wife Olga Sergeyevna.
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Valentina Chebotaryova
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Chebotaryova had earlier volunteered as a nurse during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 and had taken formal nursing courses at the time. Chebotaryova grew fond of the grand duchesses and had personal sympathy for the Tsarina, but also blamed Alexandra and her reliance on Grigori Rasputin for the political upheaval that followed. Chebotareva exchanged letters with the grand duchesses and the Tsarina while they were imprisoned at Tsarskoye Selo following the October Revolution.
Alexandra felt hurt that that Chebotaryova and her fellow nurses did not write to her directly while she was imprisoned at Tobolsk.
"I greatly regret that I was unable to kiss Tatiana and take leave of her personally -- but kindness from (Alexandra Feodorovna) I find difficult to bear," Chebotaryova wrote in her journal on August 10, 1917. Chebotaryova continued her volunteer hospital work under the new administration, but caught typhus and died in April 1919.
Her son, Grigory, was given a ribbon by her fellow nurses that read "From the Trustees and the Army Hospitals to the unforgettable Virgin Islands Chebotareva who gave her life "for her friends" ".
