Peyveste Emukhvari

Princess Rabia Peyveste Emuhvari ( born May 10, 1873 in Pizunda, Abkhazia, † 1944 in Paris) was a daughter of Prince Osman Bey Emuhvari and Princess Hesna Chaabalurchva to the world.

During the Caucasus war in 1877 her family emigrated to Istanbul, where she was transferred to the sultan. First you gave them into the service of Mistress of the Robes, later Sultan Abdulhamid II fell in love with the beautiful princess with the Abkhaz light green eyes and long auburn hair. Abdülhamid II was so fond of the young girl that he married on January 24, 1893 Yıldız Palace. A year after her marriage gave birth to Princess Peyveste Prince Abdurrahim. Sultan Abdulhamid was so happy about the birth of his Son, that he built his young wife a small palace.

But Peyveste could not bind itself to the Sultan; already in the spring of 1896, the Sultan turned to a new favorite, he also got married shortly afterwards and made ​​it his 11th wife. His new wife's name was Fatma Pesend.

Peyveste, disappointed by her husband, retired from court life and was since then only concerned with the education of her son.

During the Young Turk revolution accompanied Peyveste, which has now been declared the Grand Duchess, her husband sold to Salonika into exile. A year later, she returned with her son back to Istanbul. In 1924 she went to the second exile and lived only with her son in Naples and Rome; Finally, she settled in Paris, where she died in 1944.

Grand Duchess Peyveste was buried at the Muslim cemetery in Bobigny, near Paris.