Who dated Maria Nirod?

Countess Maria Nirod (24 May 1879 – 11 October 1965) was a Russian maid of honour in the imperial court of Nicholas II and Alexandra of Russia. After her husband's death, she trained as a surgical nurse and assisted in the surgery of Dr. Vera Gedroits, who became her life partner. After serving as a nurse in World War I and during the Russian Revolution, she fled with her children to Kiev. She served as a surgical nurse in Kiev until Gedroits' death and later ran a pharmacy which provided medications to the poor.

Vera Ignátievna Gedroitz​ (en ruso: Ве́ра Игна́тьевна Гедро́йц; 1870 - 1932) fue una princesa ruso-lituana, doctora en medicina, catedrática y la primera mujer cirujana de Rusia. Fue también una de las primeras mujeres docentes cirujanas en el mundo. Además fue escritora de prosa y poeta.