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3 unusual facts about Vera Vasilchikova


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.

August 30, 1814, for services to the spouse was granted the Order of St. Catherine of small cross.

Vera Vasilchikova (née Protasova, 1780 – October 2, 1814), was a maid of honor, the first wife of General Hilarion Vasilyevich Vasilchikova and dame of the Order of Saint Catherine (1814).


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.

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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