Katharina von Tiesenhausen

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Katharina von Tiesenhausen (Iwan Gawrilowitsch Grigorjew, 1820, Hermitage )

Katharina von Tiesenhausen ( Russian Екатерина Фёдоровна Тизенгаузен * 1803 in St. Petersburg ; † April 26th July / May 8th  1888 greg. Ibid) was a Russian court lady .

Life

Katharina von Tiesenhausen was the daughter of Alexander I. Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen's wing adjutant and his wife Jelisaveta Michailowna née Kutusowa and granddaughter of Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionowitsch Kutusow . She spent her childhood together with her younger sister Dorothea in Reval with her grandmother Katharina von Tiesenhausen, after the father died in 1805 from injuries in the Battle of Austerlitz .

In 1811 Katharina's mother married Major General Nikolai Fyodorowitsch Chitrovo. In 1813, Katharina von Tiesenhausen became a maid of honor to Empress Elisabeth Alexejewna and after her death she remained without any tasks, as her sister Dorothea described in her diary. In 1815 Chitrowo was appointed Russian Chargé d'Affaires to the Grand Duke of Tuscany , so that he and his family settled in Florence . Despite limited financial resources, Chitrovo held large receptions with a ball or theater performance twice a week , as Fyodor Gavrilovich Golovkin recalled. At the beginning of 1817, the chargé d'affaires in Tuscany was closed for reasons of savings and Chitrowo was retired. He received a small pension on the condition that he continued to live in Tuscany. His wife traveled to St. Petersburg with her daughters Katharina and Dorothea and sold Khitrovo's antique collection . In May 1819 Chitrowo died and left behind only debts, so that the family got into a very difficult financial situation. In 1820 the mother and her beautiful daughters traveled to Naples and Central Europe in search of marriage candidates. The mother had the talent to build friendly relationships with representatives of the top aristocracy , such as the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. and as the future King of the Belgians, Prince Leopold Georg Christian Friedrich von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld .

There is a presumption that Katharina von Tiesenhausen was the mother of Felix-Nikolajewitsch Sumarokow-Elston (1820–1877), who was born out of wedlock . His grandson Felix Felixowitsch Jussupow and the descendant of her sister Katharina Alfons von Clary and Aldringen expressed themselves accordingly . According to another rumor, the young Friedrich Wilhelm IV was the father of Sumarokow-Elstons, but other assumptions also exist.

When Dorothea von Tiesenhausen married the Austrian ambassador at the court of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont, in June 1821 , Katharina von Tiesenhausen and her mother belonged to the Ficquelmont family in Naples . She received a marriage proposal from Carl von Hügel , but the marriage did not take place. King Friedrich Wilhelm III. was interested in Katharina von Tiesenhausen. But in 1824 he married Auguste von Harrach in a morganatic marriage .

In 1826 Katharina von Tiesenhausen returned to St. Petersburg with her mother and was once again a maid of honor. When Ficquelmont and his wife came to St. Petersburg as ambassador in 1829, Katharina von Tiesenhausen lived with her mother again with the Ficquelmonts. In 1833, Katharina von Tiesenhausen became court maid of Empress Alexandra Fjodorovna . In the Salon of Ficquelmonts also reversed Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin , on the occasion of the presentation of Catherine de Tiesenhausen under the mask of a Cyclops on a ball in the Anichkov Palace , the poem Kyklop wrote. When Katharina von Tiesenhausen was asked by Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Sollogub in 1840 to stand up for the exiled Alexander Iwanowitsch Herzen , she turned to the Empress so that Nikolaus I Herzen could return to Moscow .

When the Ficquelmonts left St. Petersburg in 1840, Katharina von Tiesenhausen stayed in St. Petersburg. Her mother died in 1839. She was then court maid of the Empress Marija Alexandrovna and finally court maiden of the Empress Marija Feodorovna . She received the Order of Saint Catherine . She lived in the Winter Palace . In the last years of her life, she received guests every evening, who, in addition to the many descendants of Kutuzov, included outstanding people regardless of age or worldview. Her salon was run by Kutuzov's great-granddaughter, Baroness Anna Pilar von Pilchau .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pushkin Museum : Портрет графини Е.Ф. Тизенгаузен и графини Д.Ф. Фикельмон (accessed August 12, 2019).
  2. ^ A b Dorothea von Ficquelmont: Дневник 1829–1837. Весь пушкинский Петербург . Минувшее, Moscow 2009, ISBN 978-5-902073-66-6 , p. 49 .
  3. ↑ a b Раевский Н. А .: Портреты заговорили . In: Избранное . Художественная литература, Moscow 1978.
  4. ↑ a b c Бочаров И., Глушакова Ю .: … Когда б имел я сто очей, то все бы сто на вас глядели . In: Итальянская Пушкиниана . Современник, Moscow 1991, ISBN 5-270-00630-8 , p. 342 .
  5. ^ Dorothea Minkels : Elisabeth von Preussen: Queen in the time of AusMÄRZens . Bookd on Demand, p. 123 .
  6. ↑ Golovin K .: Мои воспоминания. Т. 1 . St. Petersburg 1908, p. 306 ( [1] [accessed August 12, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Tiesenhausen, Katharina von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Тизенгаузен, Екатерина Фёдоровна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian lady-in-waiting
DATE OF BIRTH 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1888
Place of death St. Petersburg