Princess Anna Mikhailovna Prozorovskaya (née Princess Volkonskaya ; July 9, 1749 - August 27, 1824 [1] ) - maid of honor of the court, wife of Field Marshal Alexander Prozorovsky , state lady and cavalier lady. In 1809 she received the Order of St. Catherine of the 1st degree.
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Biography
Daughter of the General-Anshef, Prince Mikhail Nikitich Volkonsky, from her marriage to Elizabeth Alekseevna Makarova. The exact year of her birth is called by many sources in different ways. According to Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich, she was born in 1747. However, her father wrote in his journal for 1749 [2] :
| ... On June 28 after midnight, at four in the morning, my daughter Princess Anna was born ... On July 6, this daughter of mine was baptized. The successor was the uncle, my native chancellor Count Aleksey Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin , and the successor was General Anshef Stepan Fedorovich Apraksin, spouse Agrafena Leontyevna. |
In 1765 she was granted the maids of honor. In September 1775, at her request, she was engaged to the widower, Prince Peter Mikhailovich Golitsyn . Their betrothal took place at court in the presence of the empress. However, in November 1775, Prince Golitsyn died in a duel. In 1780, at the insistence of her father, she married Prince Alexander Alexandrovich Prozorovsky (1733-1809). Being the closest special to the court, Princess Prozorovskaya was awarded all the highest awards.
On the day of the coronation of Alexander I, on September 15, 1801, she was granted the status of ladies and cavalry ladies . April 18, 1809 she received the Order of St. Catherine (the big cross) . In 1815, the princess accompanied Empress Elizabeth Alexeyevna on a trip abroad, for which she received, upon returning to St. Petersburg , in gratitude, a small portrait of the Empress in a medallion decorated with diamonds, which she always wore on her chest, on a chain.
According to Empress Elizabeth Alekseevna , "Princess Prozorovskaya was one of those creatures that was doomed to misfortune." She was not happy with her husband. After the death of the eldest daughter at the age of 14, she gave all her love to the youngest - Anna. But the latter was not distinguished by a tender feeling for her mother and there was no sincerity in their relationship [3] . N.M. Karamzin admitted that he looked with emotion at Princess Prozorovskaya, for her constant love for the Court, which did not cool down her old years. “This is rare, and therefore precious in my eyes” [4] , ”the historian wrote. Fearing to be late for the empress, Prozorovskaya had the habit of constantly looking at her watch, and at court she often quarreled with EI Nelidova [5] .
In recent years, she lived in the rich house of her beloved son-in-law, Prince Fyodor Golitsyn , on 10 French Embankment and was “always kind and good-natured” [6] . She died in October 1824.
Family
In marriage, the Prozorovsky spouses had two daughters:
- Elizabeth (Elena) (06/22/1781 - 06/20/1795), was buried in the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery [7] . Her early death had such an effect on her mother that she fainted, and all efforts to bring her to life were unsuccessful. Doctors considered her dead; she was laid on the table, and already the courtyard and the whole city were in a hurry for a memorial service, when her doctor and the Frenchman living in her house had the idea that the princess had not died, but was in a lethargic dream , which actually turned out to be. The princess came to life, recovered, and died in her advanced years. Emperor Alexander II told after her granddaughter, Princess Yu. F. Kurakina, that as a child she was always afraid of Princess A. Prozorovskaya, whom she saw at her grandmother’s court, as they told him that she was already dead.
- Anna (12.28.1782 - 12.12.1863), maid of honor, was married to Prince F. S. Golitsyn since 1809, their son, Alexander, was supremely allowed to be called Prince Golitsyn-Prozorovsky .
Sources
- ↑ TsGIA SPb. f.19. Op. 124. d.643. with. 210.
- ↑ Journal of Volkonsky’s life .
- ↑ Vel. Prince Nikolai Mikhailovich. Elizaveta Alekseevna, wife of Emperor Alexander I. In 3 volumes - T. 2. - SPb., 1909. - S. 357.
- ↑ Letters from N. M. Karamzin to I. I. Dmitriev. - SPb., 1866. - S. 379.
- ↑ A.I. Vasilchikova // Russian Archive. 1909. Book 3. - S.204.
- ↑ In memory of Count Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky. 1782-1872. - SPb., 1872. - S. 605.
- ↑ V.I. Saitov. Moscow necropolis. - SPb .: Type. M. M. Stasyulevich, 1907-1908. - T. 2. - 1908. - S. 465.
Literature
- Russian portraits of the XVIII — XIX centuries . Ed. Led. Prince Nikolai Mikhailovich. SPb. 1906. T. III vol. I. No. 22.