Princess Katharina Alexandra Dorothea von Lieven (Russian: Дарья Христофоровна Ливен, tr. Dar'ya Khristoforovna Liven), née Freiin von Benckendorff, 17...
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Somewhat overshadowed by his more illustrious wife, Dorothea von Lieven (née von Benckendorff), Prince Lieven took part in the Congress of Vienna and died in...
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Regency period, having been made respectable by the endorsement of Dorothea Lieven, wife of the Russian ambassador. Diarist Thomas Raikes later recounted...
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Russia over the period 1812 to 1834, and whose wife was Dorothea von Benckendorff, later Princess Lieven (1785–1857), a notable society hostess in Saint Petersburg...
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Lieven died suddenly on January 10, 1839 at Rome as he escorted the future Alexander II of Russia on his Grand Tour. Dorothea Lieven Dominic Lieven Elena...
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dalliances, including affairs with Emily's fellow patronesses of Almack's, Dorothea Lieven and Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey. Palmerston was a regular fixture...
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the king who successfully cleared all his debts later in his reign. Dorothea Lieven, wife of the Russian ambassador, dismissed her with contempt as having...
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Willoughby de Eresby. Dorothea Lieven, Countess de Lieven, wife of the Russian ambassador and a political force in her own right; Princess Lieven after 1826 Maria...
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to Gentz, June 1819 (Palmer 1972, p. 182) Metternich travelled with Dorothea Lieven to Brussels soon after the congress broke up, and although he could...
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Benckendorff (1785–1828) became a general and diplomat, and his sister Dorothea von Lieven (1785–1857) a socialite and political force in London and Paris....
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controlled by the police. Waistcoats were particularly important to Paul. Dorothea Lieven later said, "the emperor claimed that waistcoats caused the entire...
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the Regency of George IV, Lady Castlereagh, along with Lady Jersey, Dorothea Lieven, Lady Cowper, and others, was a Lady Patroness of Almack's, one of...
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Marguerite Merington, English-born American author (d. 1951) January 27 – Dorothea Lieven, Baltic-German diplomat in Russian services (b. 1785) February 10 –...
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Benckendorff (1783–1844) was also a general and statesman, and his sister Dorothea von Lieven was a political force famous at London, St. Petersburg, and Paris...
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2018. Elena Lieven is the sister of Anatol Lieven, Dominic Lieven, Michael Lieven, and Nathalie Lieven. Ancestors include Dorothea von Lieven and Christoph...
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George IV Princess Augusta of Cambridge, niece of George IV Princess Dorothea Lieven Royal Order of Victoria and Albert Royal Family Order of Edward VII...
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there with his wife and children. Until 1857 it was rented it out to Dorothea Lieven. Édouard Alphonse de Rothschild inherited the mansion in 1906. In 1939...
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Victor de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (d. 1870) December 17 – Dorothea Lieven, Latvian diplomat, politically active princess (d. 1857) December 23...
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former Lieven family estate and now serves as the main residence of Freemasonry Grand Lodge of Latvia. Countess, later Princess Dorothea von Lieven, a noblewoman...
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Victor de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (d. 1870) December 17 – Dorothea Lieven, Latvian diplomat, politically active princess (d. 1857) December 23...
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on Catholic emancipation. Indeed, Dorothea Lieven, wife of the Russian ambassador to London, Christoph von Lieven, told her brother Alexander von Benckendorff...
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displayed a sharp, ironic wit. Of Wellington's one-time mistress Princess Dorothea Lieven, wife to the Imperial Russian ambassador to London from 1812 to 1834...
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high society: H. Hammilton, 1980 Princess Lieven : Russian intriguer: Hamish Hamilton, 1982, on Dorothea Lieven Belinda and the baron : or The rape of the...
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1911) December 3 – Franz Bunke, German painter (d. 1939 ) January 27 – Dorothea Lieven, Baltic-German diplomat in Russian services (b. 1785) November 26 –...
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official and writer Nikolai Islenev - general Stepan Khilkov - general Dorothea Lieven - noblewoman, socialite Elena Aleksandrovna Naryshkina - noblewoman...
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friends of Poland 1832, p. 323,413. Zurawski vel Grajewski, R. Księżna Dorothea Lieven wobec Polski i Polaków: pojedynek za kulisami wielkiej dyplomacji,...
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Princess Dorothea Lieven, the wife of the Russian ambassador to the court of St. James, Prince Christopher Lieven. The intelligent and able Princess Lieven was...
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2021. Retrieved 28 November 2019. Lieven, Dorothea; Robinson, Lionel G. (1902). Letters of Dorothea, princess Lieven, during her residence in London, 1812–1834;...
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period of the Napoleonic Wars. The eldest son of Emperor Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg, Alexander succeeded to the throne after his father was...
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Smith, Elder – via Google Books. Lieven, Dorothea (1937). Quennell, Peter (ed.). The Private Letters of Princess Lieven to Prince Metternich 1820–1826 (1st ed...
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