Sofja Sergeevna Trubetskaya

Sofja Sergejewna Trubezkaja ( F. Winterhalter , 1863, Musée du Second Empire )

Sofya Sergejewna Trubezkaja ( Russian Софья Сергеевна Трубецкая ; born March 13 ^{. Jul} / 25. March  1838 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 27. July 1898 in Madrid ) was a Russian - French aristocrat and politician .

Life

Trubezkaja's father was Prince Sergei Wassiljewitsch Trubezkoi , who at the insistence of Nikolaus I had married his favorite Ekaterina Petrovna Mussina-Pushkina (1816-1897) in 1838. Shortly after Trubetskaya was born, the parents separated. Sergei Trubetskoi went to the Caucasus . Ekaterina Mussina-Pushkina settled in Paris with her daughter . Trubetskaya went to a French boarding school in 1848. Mathilde Bonaparte wanted to adopt Trubetskaya and asked Nikolaus I for permission, but he left the decision to Trubetskaya. Trubezkaya returned to St. Petersburg as a protégé Nicholas I and was accepted into the Ekaterina Institute in 1852. After graduating from the Ekaterina Institute in 1855, which coincided with the death of Nicholas I, the dowager empress Alexandra Feodorovna Trubetskaya did not appoint a lady-in-waiting .

Trubezkaya now came into the care of her aunts, Princess Marija Wassiljewna Voronzowa and Countess SW Riboper, who were not happy about it. When during the coronation of Alexander II the French ambassador Charles de Morny , half-brother of Napoleon III. Having proposed marriage to her, Trubetskaya accepted it in view of her uncertain situation. After the wedding in St. Petersburg in January 1857, the couple traveled to Paris in the spring and stayed at the Hôtel de Lassay . After the birth of her four children (1857–1863), she began to travel. Her first trip took her to Moscow to see Konstantin Pawlowitsch Naryschkin , where her appearance as an extravagant Parisian beauty was a sensation. She did not believe in Napoleon III. and assisted the Bourbons so that they would not go to the balls in the Palais des Tuileries and approach the Russian colony. Her splendid salon was visited by many Russian and Polish aristocrats. The couple became estranged, and in 1865 Charles de Morny died.

Trubezkaja met the Spanish cousin of the Empress Eugénie Duke of Alburquerque José Osorio y Silva , who lived in his villa in Deauville and whom she married in March 1869. The couple lived alternately in Paris and Madrid. Because of her family ties, she was close to Queen Isabella II , who fled to France in 1868 after the September Revolution and who awarded her the Royal Order of Mary Louisen . In 1870 Trubezkaya put up the first Christmas tree in Spain . She and her husband supported the expelled Spanish Bourbons in their efforts to return to Spain. On December 30th, 1874 Isabellas II son Alfonso XII. ascend the Spanish throne. Trubezkaya and her husband now played an important role at the Spanish court until after the death of Alfonso XII. In 1885 the queen widow Maria Christina took over the reign.

Trubezkaya died in Madrid and was buried in Paris in the Père Lachaise cemetery not far from the grave of her first husband.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} ЯРКИЙ МИР ТВОРЧЕСТВА: КНЯЖНА СОФЬЯ СЕРГЕЕВНА ТРУБЕЦКАЯ (accessed March 12, 2020).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} TimOlya: Софья Сергеевна Трубецкая (accessed March 12, 2020).
3. ↑ Olivan, Federico: MUJERES DEL SEGUNDO IMPERIO. SOFIA TROUBETZKOY . In: Diario ABC . December 28, 1949, p. 19 ( [1] [accessed March 12, 2020]).
4. ↑ А.  В.  Стерлигова. Воспоминания . In: Институтки: Воспоминания воспитанниц институтов благородных девиц . Новое литературное обозрение, Moscow 2005, p. 69-125 .
5. ↑ Biografías y Vidas (2004–2010); Biografía de José Osorio y Silva (accessed March 12, 2020).