), 1919) recorded her impressions of work in a military hospital in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia during World War I in her journal.
Despite the fact that she did not move in the highest society circles, she was asked to join a group of women who nursed soldiers along with the Tsarina and her daughters at a Palace Hospital at Tsarskoye Selo.
[1] 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.
"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.
"I feel terribly sorry for her and yet it is all so painful that I cannot find the warm feelings of old, after all she is the awful cause of all the misfortunes of our land, she ruined her entire family, the unfortunate -- sick of soul, sick with mysticism and arrogant pride ..."[4] Chebotaryova continued her volunteer hospital work under the new administration, but caught typhus and died in April 1919.