6/30/2025
Seraphima Muravyova
The transfer of the capital of the ancient Russian State from Kiev to Vladimir is presented as a passing and insignificant episode. This is a big mistake, because this event is no less important than the establishment of a tsardom, or the rise or fall of an empire.
Years later she told her cell-attendant that at the very moment she stepped inside the enclosure she knew: This is my home—one I had never found before.
The story of her family line begins in 1835, when a beloved daughter of Emperor Nicholas I made an unusual request for her sixteenth birthday: She asked to spend her entire life in Russia.
