Charlotte of Lieven
Charlotte Margarete von Lieven (née von Gaugreben) (born June 27, 1743 , † February 24, 1828 in Pavlowsk ) was a Russian chief stewardess .
family
She came from the line of Barons von Gaugreben from the Godelsheim line. She was the daughter of Carl Caspar von Gaugreben. This was general of the artillery in Russian service. The mother was Anna, (nee Baroness von Posse af Säby) from Estonia . She herself married Otto Heinrich von Lieven in 1766. He was major general and commandant of Kiev . With this she had several children.
Johann Georg (1775–1848) was later division commander. Wilhelmine von Lieven (1769–1813) married Baron George Posse af Saby. Friedrich (1770–1796) died unmarried. Carl Christoph (1767–1844) was initially a general, turned to pietism , became curator of the University of Dorpat in 1817 and president of the Evangelical Lutheran Imperial Consistory in 1819, and from 1828 to 1833 he was Russian Minister for Public Enlightenment. Christoph Heinrich (1774–1838) was imperial adjudant general and head of the field chancellery, envoy in Berlin between 1810 and 1812 , then ambassador to London until 1834 and finally educator of the child of the heir to the throne. He was married to the Salonnière Dorothea von Lieven . Katharina Elisabeth Charlotte (1776–1843) married Burchard von Viettinghoff called Scheel.
Life
After the death of her husband (1781) she came to the court of Catherine the Great and in 1783 became the tutor of the daughters and, at the beginning, of the two younger sons Nikolaus and Michael of the later Emperor Paul I. As a result, she gained considerable influence on the Russian Court. In 1794 she became court lady (lady of state) to the empress and rose to the position of chief court master in 1801.
Together with her children she was raised to the status of Russian count in 1799. She also received numerous goods. In 1797 she received the goods Mesothen in Courland and Tersa in the Saratov governorate . Gut Baki in the Kostroma Governorate followed in 1800 . In 1805 she acquired the Fokkenhof and the Grenzhof in Courland. In the years 1797 to 1802 she had the castle built in Mesothen . After Nicholas I ascended the throne in 1825, she was raised to the rank of prince. This made her the founder of the princely line of those von Lieven .
literature
- Alexander von Lieven: The General Baron Otto Heinrich von Lieven and his wife, the state lady Charlotte born. Baroness von Gaugreben, princess . Riga 1915
- Amburger, Erik: von Lieven (German-Baltic family). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 546 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Commemorative sermon on the day of the ecclesiastical celebration of the death of the once Most Serene Imperial Princess Charlotte Margarethe von Lieven, b. Baroness von Gaugreben, Imperial Lady of State and Lady of the Order of St. Catherine's Grosskreutz; held on February 27, 1828, in the Evangelical Lutheran St. Anne's Church. St. Petersburg, 1828 Access to the digitized version
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Charlotte von Lieven. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lieven, Charlotte von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lieven, Charlotte Margarete von; Gaugreben, Charlotte von (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | imperial Russian chief stewardess |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1743 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1828 |
| Place of death | Pavlovsk |