Maria Gustavna Tutelberg was a Baltic-German noblewoman who served as a chief maid to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna at the Alexander Palace.

[1] Another palace maid, Madeleine Zanotti, hated Tutelberg but the two worked together to request not to wear caps and aprons while in service to the Empress.

[1] Empress Alexandra permitted them, as chief maids, to wear simple black gowns and ribbon bows in their hair.

[1] Tutelberg was sceptical of Grigori Rasputin's abilities to heal Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of his haemophilia, and expressed her doubts to the empress.

[2] While living on the steamer, Tutelberg worked with Elizaveta Ersberg, Alexandra Tegleva, Anna Demidova, Count Ilya Leonidovich Tatischev, Anastasia Hendrikova, and Catherine Schneider to arrange the furniture.