Anastassija Trubetskaya

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Anastasia Trubetzkaja, Hereditary Princess of Hesse-Homburg

Anastassija Trubezkaja ( Russian Анастасия Трубецкая , German also outdated Anastasia Trubetzkaja ; * October 14, 1700 ; † November 27, 1755 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian princess from the house of Trubetskoi and by marriage hereditary princess of Hessen-Homburg .

Life

Anastassija was a daughter of Prince Ivan Jurjewitsch Trubezkoi (1667-1750) from his marriage to Princess Irina Naryschkina (1671-1749). Her father, known as “ the last boyar ”, was a Russian field marshal and uncle of the Russian statesman Nikita Yuryevich Trubetskoi . She was the sister of Ivan Ivanovich Bezkoi , in a sense her stepbrother .

On January 14, 1717, at the age of 16, she married Prince Dimitrie Cantemir (1673–1723), voivode of Moldova , who had been appointed German imperial prince in the year of his death in St. Petersburg . The princess, described as rich, beautiful and clever, was in high favor with the Tsaresses Anna and Elisabeth .

She married the second marriage on February 3, 1738 in St. Petersburg to the Russian Field Marshal and Hereditary Prince Ludwig Gruno of Hesse-Homburg (1705–1745). In 1739 the couple traveled to Germany and stayed for the only time in Homburg , the intended residence of their husband, who however died a year before his father and did not come to the government.

progeny

Anastasia had a daughter from her first marriage; the second marriage had remained childless.

⚭ 1751 Prince Dmitri Michailowitsch Galitzin (1721–1793)

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