Louise Kessenich-Grafemus

Louise Kessenikh-Graphemes (1786 — 30 October 1852) was a female officer, the participant of war with Napoleon 1812-1815 Prussian Uhlan Sergeant major.

She was born into a family of Jewish jeweler and at birth was given the name Esther Manoa, but at the age of 19 she converted to Christianity and received a new name — Louise, which went down in a history.

[1] Shortly after the birth of a son, Louise's husband, German convinced patriot, striving to fight for the independence of his country, left family and in 1809 went to Russia, where he joined as a volunteer in a Russian Lancer regiment.

In search of patrons who could Finance the purchase of a horse, arms and armor, Louise turned to the Princess Maria Anna, wife of Prussian Prince Wilhelm, the king's Frederick William III brother.

When on 29 March 1814 the allied troops entered Paris, in the line passing by the Russian lancers Louise suddenly saw her husband.

An immense feeling of joy and happiness embraced Louise, but great was the surprise of the surrounding soldiers, watching the Prussian Ulan, sobbing, hugging and kissing a Russian Lancer in the middle of a Parisian street.

In St. Petersburg, Louise married a second time in Riga the famous bookbinder, a native of the city of Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia) a German Lutheran Johann Cornelius Kessenikh, acquired on the Peterhof road tavern, and in St. Petersburg in the house opposite New Holland winter kept the dance class popular, widely attended, not once mentioned in the literature.

[2][3] The school was located in a house built in the early 18th century for the Tsar Peter the great on his way to Strelna and Peterhof.

Among the old residents of volkovskogo graveyard existed the legend that Louise kessenih was indeed buried above ground — hanging on the chains of the zinc sarcophagus.