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Maria Menshikova | |
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 Princess Maria; portrait by Johann Gottfried Tannauer | |
| Born | Princess Maria Alexandrovna Menshikova 26 December 1711 Saint Petersburg |
| Died | 26 December 1729 Berezovo |
| Noble family | Menshikov |
| Father | Alexander Danilovich Menshikov |
| Mother | Daria Mikhailovna Arsenieva |
Princess Maria Alexandrovna Menshikova (26 December 1711 – 26 December 1729) was a daughter of Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov, the favourite of Peter I of Russia.[1]
Life
[edit]She was the eldest daughter and first child of Prince Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov and Daria Mikhailovna Arsenieva.[2]
Thanks to her father's influence in the Russian court, she was engaged to Grand Duke Peter of Russia, a grandson of Peter the Great.[3][1] Though they never married their engagement was announced and a dowry discussed. This proposal brought about the disgrace of her father who was subsequently exiled to Siberia.
Death
[edit]After following her father into exile, she died of smallpox in Berezovo at age eighteen.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bisha, Robin (January 1998). "Reconstructing the Voice of a Noblewoman of the Time of Peter the Great: Daria Mikhailovna Menshikova: An exercise in (pseudo) autobiographical writing". Rethinking History. 2 (1): 51–63. doi:10.1080/13642529809408761. ISSN 1364-2529.
- ^ Koeppe, Wolfram; Nudel, Marina (January 2000). "An Unsuspected Bust of Alexander Menshikov". Metropolitan Museum Journal. 35: 161–177. doi:10.2307/1513033. ISSN 0077-8958.
- ^ Bain, Robert Nisbet (1897). The Pupils of Peter the Great: A History of the Russian Court and Empire from 1697 to 1740. A. Constable & Company. pp. 128–134.
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