Elena Ivanovna (née Rukavishnikova) Timeline and Summary

Elena Rukavishnikova is born to very wealthy landowner parents on August 29, 1876 in Russia.
Though her parents have seven children, five die as babies, and another dies as a teenager. A single brother (who will be later known as Uncle Ruka) survives into adulthood.
She is close to her aunts, and vacations with them on the Crimean coast, where she meets a famous painter who has spent time with the even more famous writer Alexander Pushkin.
With her husband, Elena has five children, with another stillborn: two daughters and three sons.
Both of her parents die of cancer when she is 25, in the year 1901.
Though she does not particularly care about running the household, she is very invested in being a mother and supporting her husband throughout his many political tribulations.
In 1919 she sends her two eldest sons, Vladimir and Sergey, to Crimea, so that they can avoid being drafted.
Soon after, she joins her sons with the rest of her family in Yalta, and they move from there to Greece, France, and England.
Suddenly quiet poor, the family can no longer afford pricey London, and they move to Berlin, leaving Sergey and Vladimir behind to study at university.
In 1922, she suffers the loss of her husband.
After raising her three younger children children, and sending them off to schooling and marriage, she retires to Prague.
In Prague, she lives with her children's governesses as companions, on a pension provided by the Czech government.
She dies in 1939 in Prague.