Princess Natalya Alexandrovna Repnina , nee Kurakina ( April 7 (20), 1737 - November 22 ( December 5 ), 1798 ) - State Lady , niece of Counts Nikita and Peter Panin , sister of Princess E. A. Lobanova- Rostov ; since 1754, the wife of Field Marshal Prince N.V. Repnin .
| Natalya Alexandrovna Repnina | |
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| Birth name | Princess Kurakina |
| Date of Birth | 7 (20) April 1737 |
| Date of death | November 22 ( December 5 ) 1798 (61 years) |
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| Occupation | state lady |
| Father | Alexander Borisovich Kurakin ( 1697 - 1749 ) |
| Mother | Alexandra Ivanovna Panina ( 1711 - 1786 ) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 daughters |
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Biography
Natalya Alexandrovna was the seventh child of the General-in-Chief and Chief Master, Prince Alexander B. Kurakin and Alexandra Ivanovna Panina . The entire numerous Kurakin family lived permanently in Moscow in their own large house on Myasnitskaya [1] , which had previously belonged to A. D. Menshikov .
Natalia Alexandrovna, along with her sisters, received home education under the strict guidance of her mother, an active and hospitable woman, a lover of light, who enjoyed universal respect and authority in her family.
On January 20, 1754 , at the age of seventeen, Natalya married Field Marshal Prince Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin . This marriage was very happy; Princess Repnina was a tender mother and wife, and adored by her husband and daughters. Of these, the favorite of the mother was Princess Alexandra Volkonskaya, and Natalia Alexandrovna was constantly living with her during the frequent absences of her husband related to his military service. With the appointment of Repnin in 1792 by the Vilna, Grodno, Livonia and Estland governor-general, Natalia moved to Grodno , where King Stanislav-August was at that time, constantly spending time in the Repnin family. On December 31, 1794, Natalia Alexandrovna was granted to the State Lady, and in 1797 , on the day of the coronation of Emperor Paul I , she received the Order of Saint. Catherine 1st degree.
In 1798, the princess Repnina and her daughter, Alexandra Volkonskaya , who was with her, Alexandra Volkonskaya , fell very sick on the same day in the summer general-governor’s residence of the Menagerie near Vilna . The illness of Princess Repnina, who still had the strength to first take care of her sick daughter, quickly took a dangerous turn; The healers did not recognize the illness she suffered. Ya. I. Bulgakov wrote [2] :
| From the arrival she complained of ill health, but she was cheerful and on her feet, went out and talked to us. On Saturday after dinner she fell asleep, and on Monday, November 22, 1798, at half past six in the morning she was gone. She died, however, as a righteous, without torment, and in a few hours gave hope of recovery. |
Her last words addressed to her husband were: “God healed me” [3] . Her daughter herself was about to die at that time, and all this together had so much effect on Nikolai Vasilievich Repnin that, waiting for his daughter to recover, he resigned and left the Northwest Territory.
Princess N. A. Repnina was buried in Zoo, in the Zakretskaya grove, on the banks of the Viliya River, and a chapel was erected above its grave . In 1812, this grave was dug up by the French, who dug up the body of the princess in order to steal jewels.
Children
Married Natalia Repnina had a son and three daughters:
- Praskovya Nikolaevna ( 1756 - 1784 ) was the maid of honor of Catherine II, in June 1780 she sang a song in the presence of the empress on her arrival with Emperor Joseph II in Smolensk. Since February 1783, the first wife of the nephew and pupil of I. I. Shuvalov, Prince F. N. Golitsyn ( 1751 - 1827 ), chamberlain, secret adviser. The marriage was childless and short, a few months after the wedding, the young princess became ill with pneumonia who had passed into short-term consumption. She was prescribed by doctors to go to Italy, but the sick Praskovia Nikolaevna could not stand the journey and had to stay in Smolensk with her father, where she died on October 19, 1784.
- Alexandra Nikolaevna ( 1757 - 1834 ) - state-lady, was married to Grigory Semyonovich Volkonsky ( 1742 - 1824 ). They had three sons: the eldest son Nikolay took the surname Repnin-Volkonsky, the second son Nikita was married to Z. A. Beloselskaya , the youngest son Sergey was the major general , the Decembrist.
- Ivan Nikolaevich (1765–1774)
- Daria Nikolaevna ( 1769 - 1812 ), after the death of her father in 1801, Vorontsovo's estate, and not the older Alexandra Volkonskaya , was intended for her. The father bequeathed the youngest daughter “not to marry, live with my sister and live together” . At first glance, this strange demand was due to the fact that Daria Repnina had been a hunchback since childhood and by the standards was no longer young, so the field marshal was afraid that the seekers of her hands would flatter only on her condition. However, the ban did not help. Daria soon married a retired colonel and rogue baron August Karlovich von Kalenberg (? -1880), who deceived her.
A. Ya. Bulgakov wrote to his brother on February 6, 1812 [4] :On the third day, Daria Nikolaevna Kalenbergsha died, to her own well-being; she died in poverty, found a half mile of money. Ogier, one Frenchman (for whom to do this, if not this vile one?), She was completely robbed and robbed. When she gave her soul to God, she had nothing more; almost everything was taken away.
Nikolay Vasilievich,
husbandPraskovya Nikolaevna,
daughterAlexandra Nikolaevna,
daughter
Notes
- ↑ Myasnitskaya St., 26 - the building of the former Post Office (now the European-Asian Stock Exchange)
- ↑ Letters from Ya. I. Bulgakov to I. A. Alekseev // Russian Archive. 1898. T. 1. - p. 50.
- ↑ Russian portraits of 18-19 centuries. V. 4. Iss. 3. Number 119.
- ↑ Bulgakov brothers. Correspondence. T. 1. - M .: Zakharov, 2010. - 749 p.