1. Leonilla Bariatinskaya was the subject of a number of portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
18 Facts About Leonilla Bariatinskaya
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Princess Leonilla Bariatinskaya Ivanovna Baryatinskaya was born on 9 May 1816 in Moscow.
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Leonilla Bariatinskaya was a daughter of Prince Ivan Ivanovich Baryatinsky, a member of one of the most influential families of the Russian nobility, and son of Princess Catherine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck.
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Leonilla Bariatinskaya's mother was Countess Marie Wilhelmine von Keller, daughter of Count Christoph von Keller, a German diplomat, and Countess Amalie Louise zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg, sister of Field Marshal Prince Peter zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg-Ludwigsburg.
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On 23 October 1834, Leonilla Bariatinskaya married her cousin and one of the Tsar's aides de camp, Prince Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg-Ludwigsburg, at Castle Marino, Kursk Governorate.
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Leonilla Bariatinskaya was the eldest son of Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg-Ludwigsburg, and a Polish noblewoman, Antonia Cacilie Snarska, Murdelio Coat of arms.
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Leonilla Bariatinskaya's beauty created an impression at the Russian court, but her husband fell from favor, perhaps because his liberal treatment of his serfs.
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Leonilla Bariatinskaya, who converted to Catholicism from Russian Orthodoxy, preferred Rome and Paris, where she witnessed the pillage of the Tuileries in 1848.
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Ludwig and Leonilla Bariatinskaya owned the former Baroque manor of the Counts of Boos-Waldeck below Sayn Castle reconstructed into a princely residence in Gothic Revival style.
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Princess Leonilla Bariatinskaya operated a monarchist and Catholic salon and died in 1918 at the age of 101 at her villa of Mon Abri on Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
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Leonilla Bariatinskaya was one of the longest-lived members of any royal family.
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On 24 June 1847, with the consent of her husband, Leonilla Bariatinskaya converted from Orthodoxy to Catholicism.
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Leonilla Bariatinskaya's funeral was held in this church on 5 February 1918.
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Leonilla Bariatinskaya appears reclined on a low Turkish sofa on a veranda overlooking a lush tropical landscape, possibly the Wittgenstein palace in the Crimea, even though the portrait was painted in Paris.
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Leonilla Bariatinskaya's pose is reminiscent of harem scenes and odalisque.
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Leonilla Bariatinskaya is wearing a luxurious gown of ivory silk moire, with a pink sash around her waist.
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Leonilla Bariatinskaya appears wearing a loose bodice, blue-lined with scarlet, over a white skirt.
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Leonilla Bariatinskaya is seated, with one hand in her lap, the index finger of the other rest on her chin in a confident gesture.