A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Shereen, or Schirin, or Sira
SHEREEN, or SCHIRIN, or SIRA,
Was an Armenian princess, second wife of Chosroes the Second, King of Persia in the seventeenth century. She was very beautiful, intellectual, and accomplished, and is the heroine of many of the Turkish and Persian romances. Her husband was murdered by his own son by a former wife, and Shereen killed herself on his tomb to escape the love of the murderer.