House House of Marshania Parents Abdulkadir Bey Marshania Name Shahinde Marshania | Religion Islam Mother Mavlude Inal-lpa Place of burial Istanbul, Turkey | |
Father Abdulkadir Bey Marshania Died March 15, 1924, Istanbul, Turkey | ||
Princess Kezziban Shahinde Marshania (23 September 1895 - 15 March 1924, also called Kezziban Shahinde Hanım) was a princess at the Ottoman court. She was the niece of Nazikeda Kadın, the principal consort of the last Sultan Mehmed VI.
Biography
Shahinde Marshania was born in 1895 to the Abkhazian prince Abdülkadir Bey Marshania and his wife Abkhazian princess Mavlude İnal-lpa. At the age of five she was sent to Istanbul to her aunt Nazikeda Kadın, who was married to Sultan Mehmed VI, who brought her up liberally. In the palace, she received private education. Since the daughters of Abkhazian nobilities were sought on Sultan, not only for their beauty but also because of their adaptability to the harem, her parents wanted Shahinde to be married with an Ottoman prince or even the Sultan himself.
When she grew up, she received a number of marriage proposals, including from the popular Prince Burhaneddin, the favourite son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, who had two wives, but she refused all the proposals. Shahinde ordered books specially from France, England and Germany books to outright memorize them all. At the court she was given the nickname "Mademoiselle l'Europe". When Mehmed VI ascended the throne 1918, Emine Nazikedâ made her lady-in-waiting to herself. From now on, the entire hatred of the court directed to the young princess, who still did not want to marry. Her aunt sent her away from the court for sometime.
But when Sultan Mehmed VI went into exile in 1922, his family was left behind in Istanbul and the revolutionaries closed the Empress Emine Nazikedâ along with her ladies, including Princess Marschania in the Feriye Palace. As the Sultan's family was sent into exile in 1924, keeping the princess yet another five days. She was eventually acquitted by the Turkish Parliament. On the day of her release Princess Schahinde was stabbed by a fanatical revolutionary in the street and died a short time later in hospital because of her serious injury on 15 March 1924 in Istanbul.