1. Countess Amalie Maximilianovna Adlerberg was an illegitimate daughter of Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, fathered by Bavarian diplomat Maximilian-Emmanuel Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld auf Kofering und Schonberg.
14 Facts About Amalie Adlerberg
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Amalie Adlerberg was finally taken care of by the Lerchenfeld family and lived in their palace in Munich or at the family castle in Kofering near Regensburg.
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In 1822, the fifteen-year-old beauty Amalie Adlerberg Stargard met young Fyodor Tyutchev, supernumerary attache of the Russian diplomatic mission, who arrived from Saint Petersburg.
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The blooming Amalie Adlerberg caught the attention of the first secretary of the Russian diplomatic representatives, Baron Alexander von Krudener.
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The letters and diaries of Count Maximilian Joseph von Lerchenfeld illuminate Tyutchev's first years as a diplomat in Munich, giving details of his frustrated love affair for Amalie Adlerberg, nearly involving a duel with his colleague.
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Amalie Adlerberg brought to Saint Petersburg a bunch of Tyutchev's poems.
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Amalie Adlerberg gave dozens more of them to the poet's former colleague, Prince Ivan Gagarin.
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Bibliographers of Pushkin like Alexander Shik state that Alexander Pushkin felt for Amalie Adlerberg and tried to court her at one of the balls.
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Amalie Adlerberg's influence was so great that he even secretly converted to Catholicism.
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Amalie Adlerberg helped to reinstate Fyodor Tyutchev at the Ministry after he was fired in 1843, and arranged the meeting of Tyutchev with Nicholas I of Russia and Minister Karl von Nesselrode.
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Baron von Krudener was appointed Ambassador and Plenipotentiary Minister at the Court of the King of Sweden and Norway, but Amalie Adlerberg pretended to be ill and stayed in Saint Petersburg.
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In 1869, the Amalie Adlerberg Orphan-asylum moved into a new building.
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In 1881, after the assassination of Alexander II of Russia, Count and Countess Amalie Adlerberg moved for permanent residence to Munich, Germany.
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Amalie Adlerberg was buried in the cemetery of the Church of St Laurentius in Rottach-Egern am Tegernsee.