Anna Maria "Marianne" Charlotta Koberwein née ''Rutenskiöld'' (

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, 15 December 1791 -

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, August 2, 1856) was a Swedish and later Russian Empire courtier. She is known for her affair with

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. She was the daughter of the Swedish nobleman Gustavus Adolphus Rutenskiöld (1758-1802) and daughter of a operasinger, cavalry

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, actress Ulrika Charlotta Stenborg (b. 1772). She served as a

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to the Swedish queen

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, who was married to

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, and when Gustav IV Adolf was deposed in 1809, she continued her service to Frederica in

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. She was subsequently employed by Frederica's sister

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, empress of Russia. At the Russian court, she became acquainted with, then

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and married,

, with whom she had a daughter, Joséphine Youzia Koberwein (1825–1893): in parallel, she married in 1820's (Joseph) Vassiliévitch Koberwein (1789-1854), from whom she divorced soon after. Joséphine Youzia Koberwein was born on May 12, 1825, in the Smolensk province. Officially, Yuziya is the daughter of Joseph Vasilyevich (Osip Ventseslavovich) Koberwein, an undercover police agent. On January 3, 1849, she married the painter Joseph Fricero in Marseille. Just like him, she was engaged in painting. They had four sons: Alexander (1850-1904), Nikolai (1853-1884), Michael (1858-1914) and Emmanuel (1861-1880), whose descendants still live in Nice. She died on February 23, 1893, in Nice. She was buried in the Fricero family grave in the Russian cemetery in Nice.

References

* Jacques Ferrand, ''Descendants naturels des souverains et grands-ducs de Russie de 1762 à 1910 : répertoire généalogique,'' 410 pages, Paris, 1982, 1995 (pas d'ISBN ni mention d'éditeur) {{DEFAULTSORT:Koberwein, Marianne 1791 births 1856 deaths Swedish ladies-in-waiting Ladies-in-waiting from the Russian Empire Immigrants to the Russian Empire Swedish emigrants Mistresses of Russian royalty People from Stockholm