Schneider, nicknamed "Trina," was born in
Saint Petersburg to a
Baltic German family and was the niece of the former imperial physician Dr. Hirsch. Her father was a Hof-Councillor. A courtier remembered her as "infinitely sweet tempered and good hearted." Schneider was also primly
Victorian. She once refused to permit the four grand duchesses to put on a play because it contained the word "stockings." Schneider was devoted to the Empress and willingly followed her into imprisonment following the
Russian Revolution of 1917. She was separated from the family at
Ekaterinburg and imprisoned for months at Perm. In September 1918 the elderly Schneider and the thirty-one-year-old Hendrikova were driven to a forest outside Perm, told to march forward, and were killed with a rifle butt. The bodies of Hendrikova and Schneider were recovered by the
Whites in May 1919, though the whereabouts of their final resting place remains a mystery. ==See also==