She was made a dame of the Order of Saint Catherine, the highest honor for ladies in Imperial Russia. Her main duty was to be continually near the Tsarina; to function as a secretary, to read aloud to her, to receive and entertain visitors and to act as a playmate for the imperial children both inside and out of doors.
A lady-in-waiting accompanied the Empress on journeys and visits and to the theatre and charitable institutes, as well as helping at court in the organising of concerts and private theatrical performances.
She undertook pioneering efforts on behalf of social work and women's education in Finland. She is remembered in particular as the founder of the Deaconess Institute. In she married Pavel Nikolayevich Demidov; he died in In she remarried to Andrei Karamzin. Came from noble Finnish families of Swedish origin.
He was a high official in the Grand Duchy of Finland, became the first governor of the Viipuri Province in Born on 18 February in Finland — died 1 December She was a remote niece of Gustav I of Sweden. Born 9 October — died 26 January The founder of the Demidov dynasty, a weapon-maker named Demid from the town of Tula, had won the favour of Peter the Great with the pistols that he manufactured and had been granted rights over the mines and foundries on the eastern slopes of the Urals, along with the thousands of serfs who toiled in them.
He also considerably expanded the Demidov collection assembled by his father at the Villa San Donato near Florence, being particularly interested in Romantic art. The Demidov collection was a collection of artworks gathered by the Russian industrialist Nikolay Demidov and considerably expanded by his second son Anatole.
Demidov family Demidoff Alexander Demidov. Nikolay's second son, Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato — , was a well-known traveller and patron of art. They had two children - Pavel Paul — and Anatoly Anatole — The main canvas was commissioned by Count Anatoly Demidov, whom Bryullov had met in Naples, and for whom he painted an equestrian portrait the same year. He created hospitals, orphanages and started an international committee to aid prisoners of the Crimean War , as well as giving 1 million roubles to finance that war for which Alexander II of Russia made him chamberlain and councillor of state.
A bon viveur, two chicken dishes were named after him, including Chicken Demidoff elaborately stuffed, smothered, tied up and garnished , and the Demidoff name is also applied to dishes of rissoles and red snapper.
He died in of a pulmonary congestion in his hotel on rue Saint-Dominique in Paris. Copyright The image is from Wikipedia Commons. Wikipedia Page. Archived from the original PDF on 11 April Retrieved 18 March Italian nobility Preceded by Creation. Pavel Demidov. Preceded by Creation. Prince of San Donato
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