Anna Artemevna Buturlina
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Anna Artemevna Buturlin (1777 - 1854) was a Russian countess and Count Dmitry Petrovich Buturlin's wife.
Biography
Born in 1777 in the family of Count Artemy Ivanovich Vorontsov and Countess Praskovya Feodorovna Kvashnin-Samarin. In 1793 she married a second cousin, Count Dmitry Petrovich Buturlin. Contemporaries noted that Countess Buturlina was wit and had much erudition. She loved to draw, paint and miniature on ivory. She visited the Messenger of Sardinian king in Saint Petersburg, Count Joseph de Maistre and the Jesuits, under whose influence she became interested in Catholicism. In 1817 the countess with the whole family moved to Italy, lived in Florence. In 1825 she finally moved to Catholicism from Orthodoxy, and along with her to the Catholic Church her son Peter also became a Catholic. In Frozen, she played as Elsa.
