Elizabeth Trubetskaya

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Elizaveta Esperovna Trubetskaya. Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1859

Princess Elizabeth (Elizaveta) Esperovna Beloselskaya-Belozerskaya, later Princess Trubetskaya (20 November 1834, Saint Petersburg - 30 March 1907, Saint Petersburg), was a Russian noblewoman, lady-in-waiting and a salonist.

Early life

Elizaveta Esperovna, nicknamed Lise, was by birth member of an ancient House of Belosselsky-Belozersky. She was the eldest daughter of Prince Esper Beloselsky-Belozersky (1802-1846) and the maid of honour Elena (Helena) Pavlovna Bibikova (1812-1888).[1]

Biography

Elizaveta was the maid of honour of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna. She married in 1851 Prince Pyotr Nikitich Trubetskoy (1826-1880), True State Councillor and Saint Petersburg district leader of the nobility.

By the time her portrait was painted by Winterhalter in 1859, she had already three children: Elena (1853-1917), Sergei (1855-1856) and Alexandra (born 1857 Paris -1949). Other children were: Olga (1860-died at the age of 19 from consumption), Alexander (1867-1912/1917) and Maria (1872-1954).[1]

After the death of her husband, Elizaveta Esperovna began to spend more time abroad, lived in France, where she kept a political salon.[2] She hosted a famous literary salon in Paris during the Second Empire, and played a crucial part as a mediator when France and Russia reestablished their diplomatic contacts in the 1870s.[3] Her salon was attended by many famous politicians: Prince Kochubey, Ivan Durnovo and others. The princess was in correspondence with many political figures of the time: Francois Guizot, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Adolphe Thiers and Prince Alexander Gorchakov.

Her aunt, singer and composer Princess Zinaida Alexandrovna Volkonskaya Beloselskaya (1789-1862), was at one time the owner of a famous literary salon, which was visited by famous writers Mitskevich, Baratynsky, Venevitinov, DeVitte, A.S. Pushkin also visited there.[1]

Lise was the owner of the Elizavetino summer estate from 1852 in the Saint Petersburg province, the main building was designed by architect Harald Julius von Bosse in 1874, and a collector of material about the Trubetskoy family. The family grave was situated in Vladimir Church in Elizavetino, where she was buried alongside her husband and children.[4][1]

She was grandmother of Princess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova di San Donato, great-grandmother of Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia, through her daughter Princess Elena (Hélène) Petrovna Trubetskaya Demidova (1853-1917).

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Élisabeth Esperowna Troubetzkoy". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  2. ^ "Petr Nikitich Trubetsky". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  3. ^ А. З. Манфред. Очерки истории Франции XVIII—XX вв. Изд-во Академии наук СССР, 1961. Стр. 299.
  4. ^ "Petr Nikitich Trubetsky". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
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