Hedwig Elisabeth von Biron

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Hedwig Elisabeth Baroness Cherkassov, Portrait of Joseph Friedrich August Darbes (1781)

Hedwig Elisabeth Princess of Biron , nee Baroness Cherkasov ( Russian Екатерина Ивановна Бирон; Екатерина Ивановна Черкасова ; born June 23, jul. / 4. July  1727 greg. In Mitau , † March 20 jul. / 31 March  1793 greg. In Tartu ) was a princess of Courland and lady-in-waiting of the Russian Empress Elizabeth I.

Life

Hedwig Elisabeth was a princess from the house of Biron von Curland . Her parents were the Duke of Courland and Semigallia Ernst Johann von Biron (1690–1772) and Benigna Gottliebe von Trotta called Treyden (1703–1782).

In 1759 she married the Real Privy Councilor and President of the Medical College Baron Alexander Ivanovich Cherkassov (1728–1788), with whom she had children Elisabeth Alexandrovna, married Colonel Palmenbach (1761-1832) and Peter Alexandrovich Cherkassov (1762-1828).

  • Baron Alexander Ivanovich Cherkassov

  • Elisabeth Alexandrowna Palmenbach (1761-1832)

  • Colonel Gustav Heinrich von Palmenbach (1759–1792)

  • Baron Peter Alexandrovich Cherkassov (1762–1828)

Under the influence of Empress Anna and her mother, Hedwig Elisabeth received excellent training from selected private tutors . At the wedding of the Duke of Braunschweig to Anna Leopoldowna in 1839, she appeared for the first time as a maid of honor. After the death of her first patroness, the Empress, the entire family was Biron of Courland in Schlüsselburg taken for seven months in imprisonment and exiled finally in 1741 after Pelym. At the beginning of 1742 the family was amnestied by Elizabeth I and sent to Yaroslavl . Hedwig Elisabeth fled from there to the Trinity Monastery of Sergiev Posad in 1749 to convert to the Ortodoxi . For this project and for the acquaintance with the Empress, she had the support of Countesses Pushkin and Shuvalov. The empress finally attended her baptism in the Golowinski Palace and took her indirectly, initially as a lady-in-waiting, into her court. She eventually advanced to court master and was considered very influential. Her burial took place in the Duke's Crypt at Mitau Castle.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historisch-genealogischer Almanach , Braunschweig 1792, p. 19.
personal data
SURNAME Biron, Hedwig Elisabeth von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Биро́н, Екатерина Ивановна (Russian); Черкасова, Екатерина Ивановна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess of Courland, Russian lady-in-waiting
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH Mitau
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1793
Place of death Dorpat