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* '''Sergei Fedorovich''' (1796–1836) received education at home and in 1809, was granted to the cell-pages. He was appointed adjutant to Lieutenant Akhtyrsky Hussarsthe in April 1812 without an exam, and then to the Duke of Oldenburg. Thereafter he moved to the services of [[George Petrovich]], Prince [[Mikhail Bogdanovich]] and [[Barclay de Tolly]], and eventually became staff captain of the [[Cavalry]] Regiment. Sergei was married to Princess Maria de Ignatyevna Krui-Solzh (1799–1838) and the couple died childless. |
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* '''Natalia '''(1797–1866), author of the notes on the presence of the family of Rostopchin in 1812 in Yaroslavl. Natalia married Dmitry V. [[Naryshkin]] (1792–1831) in Paris in July 1819 and lived primarily in Crimea because of its patronage of the artist [[Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky]]. |
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* [[Sophie, Countess of Ségur|'''Mistress Segur''']] (1799–1874), a French children's writer. She married Count [[Edmond de Segur]] (1798–1869) in Paris in July 1819. She lived in France after her marriage, and her favorite seat was the manor [[: fr: Château des Nouettes|Nuet]] in Normandy, which she bought with money donated by her father. |
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* '''Paul Fedorovich''' (1803–1806) |
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* '''Maria Feodorovna''' (born mid. 1805) |
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* '''Elizabeth Feodorovna''' (1807–1825), described as her father's favorite, "a girl of rare beauty, intelligence and dignity". Elizabeth's early death in March 1825 struck a severe blow to the Rostopchin family; she had secretly converted to Catholicism before her death. |
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* '''Mikhail Fedorovich''' (born mid. 1810) |
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*'''[[Andrew Rostopchin]]''' (1813–1892), Master of the Horse Supreme Court. Andrew served as the Directorate General of Eastern Siberia and retired in 1886 with the rank of Privy Councillor. His first marriage was to [[Yevdokiya Rostopchina|Yevdokiya Petrovna Sushkova]] (1811–1858), a writer, in 1833, and his second to Anna Vladimirovna Miretskoy, Eq. Skorobokach (um.1901). |
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Catherine Rostopchin | |
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 Portrait of Orestes Kiprensky, 1809 | |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, aristocrat |
| Known for | Being the wife of the governor-general of Moscow |
| Spouse | Feodor Rostopchin |
Countess Catherine P. Rostopchin (1776–1859) was a Russian aristocrat and writer. She was the wife of Feodor Rostopchin, who served as governor of Moscow during the French Invasion of Russia.
Biography
Catherine was the second of five daughters born to Senator Lieutenant General Peter S. Protasov (d. 1794) and his wife Alexandra Ivanovna (d. 1782). Her sisters were:
- Alexandra Gallitzin (1774–1842), married Prince Alexei Golitsyn
- Varvara Petrovna, died unmarried
- Vera Vasilchikova (1780–1814), married Hilarion Vasilyevich Vasilchikova
- 'Anna Petrovna, married Count Bartholomew Vasilyevich Tolstoy
im in me mum's cahh broom broom, get out mi cahhh. effect raised by their aunt Anna Stepanovna Protasova. Anna was a lady-in-waiting and a personal friend to the Empress Catherine II. She ensured her nieces received excellent education notably in foreign languages including Latin and Greek. They also received some education in Russian, native history and religion. At their aunt's request, each of the unmarried sisters received the title of 'countess' at the time of Alexander I's coronation.
According to primary sources, Catherine was tall, attractive, possessed a face that was expressive and eyes that were full of life and fire. However, she was reserved and unsociable.
Catherine was granted the title maid of honor in 1791, and in early 1794, married Count Fyodor Vasilievich Rostopchin, who appreciated her serious nature. Their marriage was happy and the couple had four sons and four daughters.
Being a free-thinker and knowing little of the Russian Orthodox faith, Catherine (like her sisters) converted to Roman Catholicism, which destroyed the family fortune. Her husband was Mayor of Moscow during the Fire of Moscow. His wife, being a zealous Catholic, was to portray the throned mistress.
In 1814, Rostopchin resigned as Mayor of Moscow and the couple moved first to Germany and then France. When they returned to Moscow in 1824 their 18-year-old daughter and Rostopchin's favorite, Elizabeth died early in March of the following year. Elizabeth converted to Catholicism before her death. On his daughter's conversion, Rostopchin wrote that, "Under the circumstances, suggests a direct effect of mother." The blow of his daughter converting broke the Count, and he died in 1826. "Only twice did you hurt me," Rostopchin wrote to his wife shortly before his death, a reference to the change of religion of his wife and daughter.
Rostopchin left orders before his death that Catherine would be suspended from training their young son Andrew; his administration was bequeathed to the state. Catherine was not present at her husband's funeral.
In the same year as her husband's death, 1826, Catherine presented excerpts from Metropolitan Filaret of Slavic books in defense of Catholic doctrine, which caused a fair amount of controversy. In 1833, she conducted an investigation regarding the information had come down, that lived in the abbot Rostopchina Borzhua was a priest's vestments at the altar of the church village of Raven, she inherited the legacy of her husband. Then it became clear that she brought up 12 girls, 7–14 years, all of them French and Germans. Subsequently, Voronov was arranged into the Catholic Church.
Restrained and closed nature of the course of time, under the influence of Catholicism, only amplified. She lived close to her husband in the summer in the abandoned village of Raven, in the winter in an old house on the Basmannaya Street, surrounded by French women – and the companion pupils of the Catholic and abbots, to use its status to the Catholic propaganda. Almost nobody in the house went out to the Mass, the rest of them drawing and reading spiritual books.
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- shes gay
References
- Recueil de preuves sur la vérité de la religion", Moscou, 1810, 12°
- Miroir de la vie d'uu véritable disciple du Christ. Traduit du Russe, Moscou, 1817
- Album allégorique", Moscou, 1829, 16°
- Recueil d'anti-alogies, ou Discussons religieuses, par une dame convertie à la religion catholique. Ouvrage publié par M. Gaston de Ségur, Paris, 1842, 18°
- Russian Literature portraits XVIII-XIX centuries. Publ. Conducted. Book. Nikolai Mikhailovich. St. Petersburg. In 1906. Volume I Issue I. Number 11.
- Russian Biographical Dictionary: Romanov-Ryasovsky. – Ed. Russian Historical Society: ed. BL Modzalevsky. – Petrograd: type. ASC. On the Island "Kadima", 1918. – T. 17. – S. 229 -. – 817 p.