Roslin Anastasia Ivanovna, Hereditary Princess of Hesse-Homburg, Princess Trubetskaya

Anastasija Ivanovna, Hereditary Princess of Hesse-Homburg and Princess Trubetskaya (russian: Анастасия Трубецкая; 1700-1755), was a Russian Imperial noblewoman, courtier, Princess of

Moldavia Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and for ...

and Landgravine of

Hesse-Homburg Hesse-Homburg was formed into a separate landgraviate in 1622 by the landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt; it was to be ruled by his son, although it did not become independent of Hesse-Darmstadt until 1668. It was briefly divided into Hesse-Homburg and ...

. She was also an honorary member of the Imperial Russian family.

Life

Born into the House of Trubetskoy, she was the daughter of Prince

Ivan Trubetskoy Prince Ivan Yurievich Trubetskoy (russian: Иван Юрьевич Трубецкой; 28 June 1667 – 27 January 1750 in Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery) was a Russian Field Marshal, promoted in 1728. Son of Yuriy Trubetskoy, as a member of t ...

(1667—1750) and his wife, Irina Grigoryevna Naryshkina (1671—1749). Her cousin was Prince

Nikita Trubetskoy Prince Nikita Yurievich Trubetskoy ( Russian: ''Никита Юрьевич Трубецкой'') (26 May 1699 – 16 October 1767) was a Russian statesman and Field Marshal (1756), minister of defense of Russia 1760. His parents were general- ...

. She was married to Prince

Dimitrie Cantemir Dimitrie or Demetrius Cantemir (, russian: Дмитрий Кантемир; 26 October 1673 – 21 August 1723), also known by other spellings, was a Romanian prince, statesman, and man of letters, regarded as one of the most significant e ...

in 1717, member of the powerful Moldavian House of Cantemir. By him she had a daughter Smaragda Catarina (1720–1761), reckoned one of the great beauties of her time, who married Prince Dmitriy Mikhailovich Golitsyn and was a friend of empress

Elizabeth Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist Ships * HMS ''Elizabeth'', several ships * ''Elisabeth'' (sch ...

. In 1738 she married for the second time to Hereditary Prince Ludwig Gruno of Hesse-Homburg, a German prince from the

House of Hesse The House of Hesse is a European dynasty, directly descended from the House of Brabant. They ruled the region of Hesse, one branch as prince-electors until 1866, and another branch as grand dukes until 1918. Burke's Royal Families of the World, ...

in Russian service. Both during her first and second marriage, she belonged to the leading members of the Russian Imperial court and aristocratic life, and often hosted the monarchs as guests in her home. As both times being married to a foreign royal, she held the rank of foreign princess in the ceremonial court protocol, ranked first after the members of the Imperial family and played a visible and public role in court life. She was also appointed Dame of the

Order of Saint Catherine The Imperial Order of Saint Catherine (russian: Императорский Орден Святой Екатерины) was an award of Imperial Russia. Instituted on 24 November 1714 by Peter the Great on the occasion of his marriage to Catherine ...

and lady in waiting to Empress Elizabeth. She left for Germany in 1745, and did not return until 1751, after which she became a noted philanthropist. Anastasiya died in St. Petersburg on November 27, 1755 and was buried in the

Alexander Nevsky Lavra Saint Alexander Nevsky Lavra or Saint Alexander Nevsky Monastery was founded by Peter I of Russia in 1710 at the eastern end of the Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg, in the belief that this was the site of the Neva Battle in 1240 when Alex ...

, in the Church of the Annunciation.

References

* Русские портреты XVIII и XIX столетий. / Издание вел. кн. Николая Михайловича. — 1907. {{DEFAULTSORT:Trubetskaya, Anastasija 1700 births 1755 deaths Ladies-in-waiting from the Russian Empire Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to the Russian Empire

Anastasija Anastasija ( Serbian and Macedonian: Анастасија) is a transliteration of the Greek name Anastasia in Serbian, Macedonian, and Latvian. Its male counterpart is ''Anastasije ( Serbian: Анастасије). It may refer to: * Saint A ...

Burials at the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra