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Second Journey Abroad
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BECAUSE OF HER EXCLUSION from the court, Dashkova could not congratulate the empress personally on the Russian victories over Turkey. Instead, she sent her a work by Angelica Kauffinann, the Swiss-born painter Dashkova admired, who was known for her portraits and historical scenes and who was the only female member of the Royal Academy. The painting, entitled the Embroideress (1773), is now located at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and is almost identical to Grecian Lady at Work at the Royal Ac...
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Estrangement
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; GRIEF, ANGER, LOSS, AND ENDLESS DISPUTES at home and at court characterized the years of Dashkova's administration of the two academies as she carried out her duties and attended the empress. She was greatly saddened when she learned of Diderot's death in 1784. "His death was a great grief to me
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Virtue Must Advertise: Self-Presentation in Princess Dashkova's Memoirs
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova was one of the most colorful and striking figures of the age of Catherine the Great, itself an epoch of oversize personalities. "Catherine the Little," as Dashkova refers to herself in her memoirs, was-next to the empress Catherine-the most prominent and
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A Tumultuous Life: Princess Dashkova and Her Relationships with Others
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; ... informed by sending her the latest publications as well as relevant news from Moscow.22 Overall, Dashkova's relationships with academicians ... Nonetheless, Dashkova later recalled how shaken her daughter was by the news of her exile: "I had great difficulty in trying to revive my ...
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First Journey Abroad
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; ... star was on the rise. It was time to return to Russia where she hoped that happier times were in store for her. Tragically, bad news greeted her immediately, when in Riga she received a letter from Aleksandr informing her that plague had broken out, forcing ...
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A Woman of Letters
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; ... the Education and Instruction of Children" ("O vospitanii i nastavlenii detei," 1783) appeared in the "Supplement to the Moscow News" ("Pnbavlenie k Moskovskim vedomostiam") the same year as Dashkova's "On the Meaning of the Word Education." In the nature versus ...
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Liberty Postponed: Princess Dashkova and the Defense of Serfdom
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; For all the diversity that distinguished imperial Russia from the American colonies in the eighteenth century, both societies shared one crucial characteristic that set them apart from Western Europe: the presence of human bondage as a mainstay of economic power and social privilege. Since 1721,
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Conspiracy
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; ... Straightaway, she wrote her best friend and brother Aleksandr, with whom she regularly corresponded about current events, family news, and court gossip. On July 20, 1758, the fifteen-year-old Dashkova notified Aleksandr in Paris about her recent matters of the ...
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Banishment
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; ... their son, little Mishenka, had died. The news devastated Dashkova; overcome with grief ... faint, Anna revealed to her the recent news from Poland. In support of Catherine's ... 62 Especially disturbing for her was the news of the opposition to Panin's Northern Accord ...
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Troitskoe and Korotovo
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; ... property in the village Korotovo in the area of Cherepovets. The news of her impending exile threw the whole house into turmoil, while ... and she wrote repeatedly to her brother and others requesting news of her son. Actually, Pavel Dashkov's career did not suffer ...
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The Academy of Sciences
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; ... Rossiiskii geograficheskii leksikori), maps, and other reference works. More work ... but also the renting of property, sale of maps, and outside consulting work. She personally ... the quality of its publications, created maps, organized a number of expeditions into ...
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