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2 unusual facts about Catherine Rostopchin


Catherine Rostopchin

In July 1819 in Paris, she was married to Dmitry V. Naryshkin (1792–1831), and the actual Privy Councillor, Governor Tauride.

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.


Alexandra Gallitzin

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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