Grabovskaya, Isabella

According to the inscription on the tombstone in the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw , Isabella Elzbieta Grabowska (married - Sobolevskaya) was born on March 26, 1776 . Officially, she was considered the daughter of Lieutenant General of the Crown Troops Jan Jerzy Grabowski (d. 1789). It is assumed that in fact she was the illegitimate daughter of his wife Elzbieta Grabowska (née Szydłowska) (1748/1749 - 1810) and the Polish king Stanislav Augustus Ponyatovsky . She probably got the name Isabella in honor of the sister of her biological father, (1730-1808), the widow of Kastelian Krakowski and the hetman of the great crown crown Jan Klemens Branicki. Isabella had four brothers and sisters: (1771–1789), the wife of František Salezij Krasicki, Michal (1773–1812), Casimir (1774–1833) and Stanislav (1780–1845).

Isabella and her sister and brothers were raised in the Catholic faith . Her education was a teacher of French descent. Her friends' circle, among others, included , daughter of the founder of the Arcadia park Elena Radziwill .

At the beginning of 1795, Isabella Grabowska, with the assistance of her mother Elzbieta, was engaged to her cousin, Valent Faustin Sobolevsky (1765-1831), the son of the royal secretary and the Warsaw coughtier, Maciej Sobolevsky and Eva Shidlovskaya, sister of mother Isabella. Due to the close relationship, King Stanislav Augustus Poniatowski in February 1795 instructed the Italian priest Caetan Chigiotti to obtain papal permission for marriage. October 1, 1795 the marriage was concluded in Warsaw. After the wedding, the couple lived in the Branicki Palace in Warsaw, located near the Church of the Holy Cross. The spouses had three daughters:

• Theresa Laura Jozef (1796-1798)
• Isabella Valentina Laura Alexandra (born 1798), wife of Count Jozef Kvilecki since 1825
• Quirina Paulina (1800-1812)

According to the diary of Natalia Kitskaya, a relative of Isabella, in 1803 - 1804 she provided shelter to the Count of Provence, the future king of France, Louis XVIII . After the founding of the Duchy of Warsaw, Valent Faustin Sobolewski, Isabella's husband, became a member of the Governing Council (interim government of the Duchy). Isabella Sobolevskaya often organized balls in honor of the French emperor, and also had a long correspondence with Maria Walewska , the Polish favorite of Napoleon. In 1810, Isabella, along with her brothers and sisters, was engaged in the funeral of her dead mother.

In May 1829, before the coronation of the Russian Emperor Nicholas I Pavlovich and his wife Alexandra Fedorovna, tsar and tsarina of the Kingdom of Poland, the Sobolevsky couple organized a reception for representatives of the aristocracy and intelligentsia of the Kingdom of Poland in the governor’s palace , which was attended by playwright Nemtsevichel and historian Lel . On May 18, 1829, Isabella Sobolevskaya participated in the Royal Castle in Warsaw in a reception in honor of the emperor, at which she was appointed lady of the empress. On June 4, 1831, after the death of her husband, Isabella Sobolevskaya received half the estate of Młochów for life .

After the death of her husband, Isabella Sobolevskaya lived with her sister Marianna Gutakovskaya (1766-1843) and her daughter from her first marriage, Gabriela Zabello, in the Grzybowski Palace in Warsaw . She retired from public life, only occasionally appeared at official ceremonies. On May 26, 1856, Isabella appeared at a reception in honor of the new Russian emperor Alexander II Nikolaevich , with whom she danced a polonaise in the first pair.

Isabella Elzbieta Grabowska (married to Sobolevskaya) died on May 21, 1858 in the Grzybow Palace. She was buried on May 26, 1858 in the basement of the Church of the Holy Cross, where her husband Valent Sobolevsky and brother Stanislav Grabovsky were buried. Grzybow Palace was transferred to the Congregation of Missions. In 1861, the Church of All Saints was built on the site of the former Grzybowski Palace.

There are two portraits of Isabella Sobolevsky brush by Jozef Grassi . The first is in the National Museum in Poznan , and the second, where Isabella is depicted in the image of the Sibyl , in the National Museum in Warsaw .

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