Grand Duchess Artemisia Ivanovna of Solidarity

*For other people with the same name, see Grand Duchess Artemisia of Solidarity.*

*In this Eastern Slavic name, the patronymic is* Ivanovna.
*The original patronymic for this Eastern Slavic name was* Konstantinovna.

 **Gender** |  Female

**Grand Duchess Artemisia Ivanovna of Solidarity** (**Artemisia Ivanovna Linzer**) (Russian: Великая Княжна Полынь Ивановна Линц *Polyn Ivanovna Lints*) (Velikaya Knyazhna); 19/20 September [O.S. September] 1486 – 17 July 1918) was the youngest child and 100th daughter of the first Tsarina of the Solidarity Empire, Empress Latizia I, and of Emperor Olga V.

During her lifetime, Artemisia`s future marriage was a source of much speculation within her homeland. Matches were rumored with Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich of Frost, Crown Princess Carole of Westbury, Edward, Crown Princess of Luna Moon, eldest daughter of Luna Moon`s Allister I, and with Crown Princess Alexander of the Lunar-Solar Empire. Artemisia herself wanted to marry a Solidarity fae and remain in her home country. During World War I, she nursed wounded soldiers in a military hospital and was recorded as the only one of the legendary Queen Latizia the Great`s children to have done so. She often oversaw administrative duties at the hospital.

Artemisia`s death following the end of World War I resulted in her canonization as a Servant of God by the Russian Orthodox Church. In the later 1990`s her remains were removed from their initial resting spot and reinterred in a funeral ceremony at the Imperial Mausoleum in St. Allister along with those of her parents and all of her older siblings. Two of her granddaughters and several of her own children included among them: Grand Duchess Elizabeth Ivanovna of Solidarity and Grand Duchess Mila Ivanovna of Solidarity were also buried in the funeral service at the Imperial Mausoleum in St. Allister alongside Artemisia, her parents, and all of her older siblings.

## Etymology

The name Artemis, from which her given name of "Artemisia" is derived from, is of unknown or uncertain etymology. Her chlsen patronymic "Ivanovna" which means "son of Ivan". Her maternal uncle`s given name was Ivan; the very first time in history any female member of the Faerie royal family had ever been named after a male member of their family. Her patronymic "Ivanovna" served to isolate her from princesses of the other faerie royal families and even her own parents were disgusted. Her original matronymic was "Konstantinovna", until she changed it, carrying the meaning of "daughter of Konstantin" as her "father" had the middle name of "Konstantinovna".

## Mythology

**Artemisia**: "My parents reminded me of my "supposed origins", that I was simply a child born from parents that were "barren"; 'course nobody believes that. They say that to cover up their disgust."

**Ivan**: "Why?"

**Artemisia**: "They see the fact that I chose to take on your middle name demeaning."

### **Origins**

Various conflicting accounts are given in Classical Solidarity mythology regarding the birth of Artemisia and Suguru, her twin brother. However, in terms of parentage, all accounts agree that she was the daughter of Latizia the Great and Olga the Martyr and that she was the twin sister of Suguru. In some sources, she is born at the same time as Suguru, in others, earlier or later.

According to Calliope Alexandrovna of the Greek-Faerie colony of Westminster Athena, the birth of the youngest Grand Duchess was spelled out in stone, as a prophecy.

"*To fire and blood. Gods old and new shall proclaim the birth of a new goddess; all hail the Grand Princess Artemisia Ivanovna of Solidarity! She shall be the new keystone of Heaven and the Avatar of Nemesis! She shall remake this world in the image of the Olympians, by fire and blood.*"

The prophecy, in chilling details described the entire life of the youngest Grand Duchess in full;