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Zinaida Volkonskaya

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frequented her house. Pushkin's verse epistle to her, "The queen of music and beauty", is well known.
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She moved to Russia in 1817, and to Moscow in 1822. In the 1820s the "
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An Anthology of Russian Women's Writing, 1777–1992, Oxford, 1994.
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to the family of a Russian ambassador, Prince Alexander
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Pilgrim Princess: A life of Princess Zinaida Volkonsky
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Converts to Roman Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy
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Index

Zenaǐde Wolkonsky

Orest Kiprensky
salonist
lady in waiting
Paris
London
Turin
Beloselsky-Belozersky
White Lake City
Tatischev
Rurikid
Louise of Prussia
Alexander I of Russia
Nikita Volkonsky
Congresses of Vienna
Verona
Corinna
salon
Tverskaya Street
Yeliseyev food store
Adam Mickiewicz
Yevgeny Baratynsky
Dmitry Venevitinov
Alexander Pushkin

Grigoriy Myasoyedov
Sergey Volkonsky
Decembrist Revolt
Nicholas

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