Princess Janetta Antonovna Chetvertinskaya (married Vyshkovskaya , 1777 - August 18, 1854, Munich) - a representative of the Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky clan, beloved of Tsarevich Konstantin Pavlovich , sister of Maria Antonovna Naryshkina .
| Zhanetta Antonovna Vyshkovskaya | |
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| Birth name | Jeanette Chetvertinskaya |
| Date of Birth | 1777 |
| Date of death | August 18, 1854 |
| Place of death | Munich |
Biography
Born in the family of Prince Anthony-Stanislav Chetvertinsky , Castellan Peremyshl and his first wife Tekla Kopenhausen. Soon lost her mother. And in 1794, during a mutiny in Warsaw , her father was killed, who was considered a supporter of Russia.
The second wife of the prince, nee Kholonevskaya, was invited by Catherine II to Russia and granted to the state ladies , and both her minor stepdaughters: Jeanette and the youngest Maria were taken by maids of honor to the courtyard with the opportunity to live in the palace.
Maria already married in 1795, and the less beautiful and affable Jeanette remained at court for a long time. She was seriously carried away by the Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich even before his marriage to Anna Fedorovna . And after a quarrel with his wife and her departure abroad, he remembered his past affection and increasingly looked for meetings with Zhaneta Antonovna. Konstantin Pavlovich dined almost every day in the house of Maria Naryshkina, devoting the rest of her time to her sister.
By his own admission, in 1803, the prince even decided to divorce to marry Chetvertinskaya, but met strong resistance from the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna and Alexander I himself , so he decided to abandon his plans.
Only in 1816, when Konstantin Pavlovich was already in love with another Polish Grudzinskaya , Zhanetta Antonovna, having collapsed her ambitious hopes, accepted the offer of the Polish nobleman who had long taken care of her - Count Severin Vyshkovsky (1771-1859). The main obstacle to marriage was the lack of funds for both the groom and the bride. But Alexander I, who had been her sister’s lover for more than fifteen years, granted Zhaneta Antonovna a dowry of 200,000 rubles and paid for the hiring of the house where the young had settled after their wedding on February 19, 1816.
Count Vyshkovsky was an ardent Polish patriot and an adversary of everything Russian, so Zhanetta Antonovna was estranged from Russia and her family. She spent most of her remaining life abroad. Died on August 18, 1854 in Munich. She was buried in the Munich Southern cemetery, already by the beginning of the XX century her grave was lost.
Literature
- Russian portraits of the XVIII — XIX centuries . Ed. Led. Prince Nikolai Mikhailovich. SPb. 1906. T. I vol. III. Number 104.