Biography of Vorontsova Dashkova

Russian diplomat, a real secret adviser from the Vorontsov clan. The ancestor of the branches of the Vorontsov-Dashkovs. The grandson of the Senators I. Vorontsov and I. The only son of the chamber-junker of Count Illarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-gg. Ivan Illarionovich lost his father in the year of his birth. Miniature E. Robertson, E Gg. Countess Irina Ivanovna was an energetic lady and was able not only to give her son an excellent education, but also to significantly increase his condition.

Being a weak and painful child, Ivan spent several years with his mother abroad. They traveled a lot in Italy with the sister of the countess, Princess Evdokia Ivanovna Golitsyna known as “Princesse Novo” Princess of Night. In August, by decree of Emperor Alexander I, Count Ivan Vorontsov, as a grandson nephew of the state-duma of Princess E. Dashkova, is allowed, for the suppression of the Princes of the Dashkovs, to attach the surname of the Dashkovs to their surname and is called hereditary, hereditary, Count Vorontsov-Dashkov.

Photo: Countess Irina Ivanovna Vorontsova. The portrait of the brush of Elizabeth Louise Vizhe-Luza Count Vorontsov-Dashkov served in the foreign affairs department, in the years he was a messenger in Munich, in-gg. Ivan Illarionovich was married to G. Naryshkin and Princess M. Lobanova-Rostovskaya, the maids of honor of the imperial court of G. She grew up in luxury and atmosphere of parental love.

Having married at a very young age for the richest nobleman of the capital, the young Countess Vorontsov-Dashkova conquered the Higher Light with her sharp mind, a good disposition, enchanting and mysterious appearance. She became a muse for M. Lermontov, I. Turgenev and N. Photo: Countess Alexander Kirillovna Vorontsova-Dashkova “Lord of the Fashion” and the first “Sabbath” writer Count Vladimir Alexandrovich Sologub wrote at the time of her secular success: “Much happened to me to meet the women much more beautiful in my century, maybe even more smart ones, although the Countess of Vorontsova-Dashkova differed Extraordinary wit, but I never met in any of them such a combination of the most subtle taste, grace, grace with such genuine merry, liveliness, almost boyish leaning.

A lively key beat her life and revived her all her surrounding many women tried to imitate her, but not one of them could seem what she was actually. ” According to contemporaries, Count Illarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-Dashkov was one of the first figures among the St. Petersburg aristocracy and a friend of Emperor Nicholas I. For a constantly cheerful expression on his face, he was called the “eternal birthday”.

The House of the Vorontsov-Dashkovs on the Palace Embankment, 30 next to the Winter Palace is the most fashionable and attractive. The balls set by the spouses were inferior only to the bals in the Winter Palace. Nicholas I himself and the Empress tried to never miss these annual entertainments. The whole color of the St. Petersburg light was invited to this ball, which always, so to speak, was the incident of the social life of the capital.

Photo: Palace Embankment K. Beggrov by ten o’clock everyone gathered and housed in anticipation of high guests in the first two halls. The empress, relying on the elbow of Count Vorontsov, climbed the stairs. The sovereign followed her; The empress, with her characteristic favor, turned to those present and opened the ball, walking Polonaise with the owner.

Majorda Ricci did not leave the Empress for a second, always standing a few steps behind her, and while dancing, holding in the doorway of the dance hall. The dinner of the Empress served on a separate small table on dishes made of pure gold; Empress had one dinner; The sovereign, as usual, paced between the tables and sat down where he wanted him. " From the memoirs of the writer of Count V.

Photo: Count Vladimir Alexandrovich Sollogub, it should be noted that Count Ivan Illarionovich Vorontsov-Dashkov had a reputation as a person’s good, heart and victim for different needs, he sang well and, together with his wife, Alexandra Kirillovna, even performed in charity performances. For the diplomatic service, Vorontsov-Dashkov was awarded a number of higher Russian orders, to the Order of St.

Vladimir of the 1st degree inclusive. Almost 12 years, with G., realizing that the imperial couple and the yard will be more likely to be in Moscow, in the year Count I. Vorontsov-Dashkov instructed the architect Bernhard Simon to perestroika his Moscow Region Maryino in the village of Bykovo.

Photo: Nicholas I on July 6 G. Count Ivan Illarionovich Vorontsov-Dashkov died in June in Peterhof from cholera and was buried in the cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.