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Ellen von Samson-Himmelstjema von zur Muehlen was born at Hummelshof, her family estate in north Livonia, then one of the Baltic provinces of Tsarist Russia and part of today's Estonia. Her family belonged to the Baltic German nobility, many of whom were descendants of the Teutonic Knights and Livonian Knights who in medieval times brought Christianity to the region. Through the centuries the Baltic German landed aristocracy was the dominant force in the religious, cultural, and economic development of the Baltic provinces, particularly in Estonia and Latvia. In the process they accumulated considerable wealth and vast landholdings, which they were able to retain largely intact until the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917.

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