Anastasiya Trubetskaya

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Posthumous portrait of Anastasia Ivanovna, Hereditary Princess of Hesse-Homburg, Princess Trubetskaya painted 1757 by Alexander Roslin National Gallery of Victoria

Anastasija Ivanovna, Hereditary Princess of Hesse-Homburg and Princess Trubetskaya (1700-1755), was a Russian noblewoman, courtier, Princess of Moldavia and Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg and an honorary member of the Imperial Russian family.

Life[]

She was the daughter of Prince Ivan Trubetskoy and Irina Grigoryevna Naryshkina and cousin of Prince Nikita Trubetskoy. She was married to Prince Dimitrie Cantemir in 1717, and 1738 to Hereditary Prince Ludwig Gruno of Hesse-Homburg, a German prince 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 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.

References[]

• Русские портреты XVIII и XIX столетий. / Издание вел. кн. Николая Михайловича. — 1907.