Elizabeth Trubetskaya

Elizabeth Trubetskaya (1834-1907), was a Russian Princess and salonist, by birth member of Belosselsky-Belozersky family. She hosted a famous literary salon in Paris during the Second Empire, and played a crucial part as a mediator when France and Russia established their diplomatic contacts in the 1870s.[1] She was grandmother of Princess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova di San Donato, great-grandmother of Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia and thus ancestor of Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, actress Catherine Oxenberg and writer Christina Oxenberg.

Elizaveta Esperovna

References
  1. А. З. Манфред. Очерки истории Франции XVIII—XX вв. Изд-во Академии наук СССР, 1961. Стр. 299.
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