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Alexandra Gallitzin

Vera Vasilchikova (1780 - 1814), maid of honour and dame of the Order of Saint Catherine who was the first wife of later-Prince Hilarion Vasilyevich Vasilchikov.

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A few days before his death on January 18, 1840 he wrote: "This holy woman with her strict positivity diminished the sweetness of Christian charity, but she will always have a holy influence on my soul, and I love and admire her enormously."↵The poet died on September 11, 1840 at the age of 60 in his home in St. Petersburg, was buried in Paris, at Montmartre Cemetery.

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Sister to Moscow aristocrat and writer Catherine Rostopchin and maid of honour and dame of the Order of Saint Catherine Vera Vasilchikova, she was the mother of five, including Peter Gallitzin, and the grandmother of the Roman Catholic missionary, Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin who published her writing post-humously.

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Excerpts from her written prayers and thoughts were published by her grandson Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin in his book Vie d'une religieuse du Sacre-coeur. Her correspondence with Madame Swetchine and Russian Catholics are contained in the book Lettres de Madame de Swetchine (Paris, 1862).

Vera Vasilchikova

In early childhood, she lost her parents and her sisters, Alexandra, Catherine, Barbara, and Anne was under the auspices of her aunt Anna Stepanovna, which was the favorite and trusted-chamber maid of honor of Catherine II.

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