Baroness Elizaveta Alexandrovna Demidova (née Stroganova) (3/5 February 1779, Saint Petersburg - April 8 1818, Paris) (Russian - Елизавета Александровна Строганова) was a Russian aristocrat of the Stroganov family.

Life

In September 1795 in Saint Petersburg, she married Count

Nikolai Nikitich Demidov Count Nikolai Nikitich Demidov (9 October / November 1773 Chirkovitsi village near Saint Petersburg – 22 April 1828) was a Russian industrialist, collector and arts patron of the Demidov family. Life The son of Nikita Akinfiyevich Demidov ...

at the age of 16. Husband Nikolai Demidov became a diplomat and the young couple set up home in Paris, in the Hôtel de Brancas-Lauragais, at the corner of Rue Taitbout and

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, becoming strong supporters of

Napoleon I of France Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

. However, mounting tensions between France and Russia forced Russia to call Nicolas back home in 1805. The couple then set up home in Italy before returning to Russia in 1812 to settle in Moscow. They were of completely different characters and often lived apart. She was beautiful, light and witty, and her husband more introspective, and so they soon grew bored with each other. After Anatole's birth in 1812, they separated and she returned to live in Paris, where she died in 1818 and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Children

They had two children, who lived to adult age: * Pavel (Paul) Nikolaievich Demidov (1798–1840) * Anatoly (Anatole) Nikolaievich Demidov (1812–1869) Two other died as young children: * Aleksandra Nikolaievna Demidova (19 October 1796 – 24 August 1800) * Nikolai Nikolaievich Demidov (17 February 1799 – 24 August 1800)

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Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery

Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France