Countess Anna-Maria-Eva-Apolonia Pototsky , nee Skumin-Tyszkiewicz ( Polish: Anna Maria Ewa Apolonia Potocka , March 26, 1779 , Warsaw - August 16, 1867 , Paris ) - author of memoirs telling about the Emperor Napoleon , his inner circle and moods Polish society on the eve of and during the invasion of Napoleonic troops in Russia in 1812.
| Anna Pototskaya | |
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| polish Anna Maria Ewa Apolonia Potocka | |
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| Birth name | Anna Skumin-Tyszkiewicz |
| Date of Birth | March 26, 1779 |
| Place of Birth | Warsaw |
| Date of death | August 16, 1867 (88 years old) |
| Place of death | Paris |
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| Occupation | a writer |
| Father | Ludvik Skumin-Tyszkiewicz |
| Mother | Constance Ponyatovskaya |
| Spouse | and |
| Children | August, Mauritius and Natalia Pototsky (all from the 1st marriage) Matilda Dunin-Vonsovich (from the 2nd marriage) |
Biography
Daughter of Count Ludwik Skumin-Tyszkiewicz (d.1808) and Princess Constantia Poniatowska (2.03.1759 - 1830), sister of Prince Stanislav Poniatowski and niece of the last King of Poland Stanislav Augustus Poniatowski . May 27, 1805 in Vilna, Anna married Count Alexander Stanislav Pototsky . The couple had three children: Augustus, Mauritius and Natalia, who married Prince Sangushko . In 1821, the couple divorced.
The second husband of Anna was Colonel Count Stanislav Dunin-Vonsovich (1785-1864), who was in 1812 a lieutenant of the 1st regiment of the Chevolger Pikemen of the Imperial Guard (he was a translator at the camp office of Napoleon I). In this marriage, Anna had a daughter, Matilda. Since 1851, Countess Dunin-Vonsovich lives in Paris, her salon was considered one of the most brilliant during the Second Empire.
In 1897, the countess's memoirs ( Memoires de la comtesse Potocka (1794-1820) , publies par Casimir Strienski. Paris. 1897) were published in Paris. In them, Countess Pototskaya (the publisher brought the author under the last name that she wore during the period described in the memoirs) talks about Napoleon I and Alexander I , as well as draws interesting portraits of Empress Maria Louise , Marshal Murat , Polina Borghese , Marquise Susa, Talleyrand , Duke Bassano , Grand Duke Konstantin , Novosiltsev , Prince Jozef Poniatowski , Countess Valevskaya and others.
“That was in 1812. I just read the unusual memoirs of the Margraine of Bayreuth, the appearance of which, according to Napoleon, marked the second Yen for the Brandenburg house: this book revealed so many abominations and squabbles. I was very young then, and I became possessed by the desire to record my memories as I age. It seemed to me that, without boasting, I could collect materials much more interesting than those with which the kind Margraine immortalized her name. So, I set to work ... "
In her memoirs, Anna Pototskaya talks about the platonic love for a certain Count F., whose name was easily unraveled by the commentators of the memoirs. This man was Count Auguste-Charles-Joseph de Flao de La Billardier , whom some contemporaries considered the bastard son of Talleyrand . According to the first publisher of memoirs, Casimir Strynsky, the romantic friendship of Charles de Flao and Countess Pototskaya, later Countess Dunin-Vonsovich, lasted a lifetime, and he was supposedly even present at her death.
Literature
- Memoirs of Countess Potocka (with abbreviations) // Historical Bulletin, No. 4. 1897
- Memoirs of Countess Potocka (1794-1820): Portr. and decree. own. Names / Per. with fr. A. N. Kudryavtseva. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House Prometheus N. N. Mikhailova, 1915. - 273 p.
- Pototskaya A. Memoirs of Countess Pototsky, 1794-1820. Kuchkovo Field, 2005. ISBN 5-86090-097-X