Katharina Romanowna Daschkowa (1743–1810)
Author of The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova
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Image credit: Jekaterina Romanowna Woronzowa-Daschkowa
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- Canonical name
- Dashkova, Ekaterina Romanovna
- Legal name
- Vorontsova, Ekaterina Romanowna (Geburtsname)
- Other names
- Vorontsova, Ekaterina Romanovna (birth)
Princess Dashkova
Dashkova, Ekaterina
la princesse Daschkoff - Birthdate
- 1743-03-17
- Date of death
- 1810-01-04
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- director of scientific academy
magazine editor
lady-in-waiting
intellectual
memoirist - Organizations
- Russian Academy of Sciences (president, 1784)
American Philosophical Society - Awards and honors
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1783)
Order of St. Catherine - Relationships
- Wilmot, Martha (friend)
Catherine the Great (friend) - Short biography
- Princess Dashkova was a close friend and courtier to the Empress Catherine the Great and took part at age 19 in the 1762 palace coup that brought the latter to power. She was an intellectual who travelled extensively in Europe and met many of the leading figures of the Enlightenment there. After her return to Russia, the empress named her the president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and Arts -- the first woman to hold such a position in any country.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire
- Places of residence
- St. Petersburg, Russia
Paris, France
Moscow, Russia
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- ISBNs
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