Photographed on January 1, 1923, Genepil looks like a royal figure from a fading world, because that is exactly what she was

Photographed on January 1, 1923, Genepil looks like a royal figure from a fading world, because that is exactly what she was. 

She would become Mongolia’s last queen consort, chosen to marry the Bogd Khan as the old monarchy tried to preserve its authority in a country already being reshaped by revolution and outside pressure.



But her “royal” era barely lasted. The Bogd Khan died on April 17, 1924, and soon after, the monarchy was abolished, cutting off the life she had been placed into. 

Genepil’s story ends even more brutally: during the Stalinist-era purges that swept Mongolia in the late 1930s, she was arrested and executed in May 1938.

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