Julia Adlerberg

Julia Adlerberg

Anna Charlotta Juliana Adlerberg, née Baggehufwudt (Russian: Юлия Фёдоровна Адлербе́рг; 1760-1839), was a Swedish pedagogue. She was the principal of the Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg in 1802–1839.

She was the daughter of the Swedish-Baltic noble and Charlotta Eleonora von Rosenthal of Pergel, and married in 1785 to a Swedish colonel in Russian service, Gustaf Fredrik Adlerberg (d. 1794). She became the mother of the imperial governess . In 1792, she was appointed governess for grand prince Nikolaj and grand prince Michael of Russia, and in 1802, she was appointed principal of the Smolny Institute.

She was made dame d’honneur in 1824 and received the order of St Catherine (second degree) in 1835. The park outside the Smolny Institute, Adlerbergskogo, was named after her.

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Anna Charlotta Juliana Bagghufvud i Wilhelmina Stålberg, Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor (1864)