Julia Kurakina

Julia Kurakina by Christina Robertson

Julia Kurakina (Russian: Юлия Куракина; 1814–1881) was a Russian noblewoman and royal court official.^[1] She served as Ober-Hofmeisterin (Mistress of the Robes) or senior lady-in-waiting to empress Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) in 1866–1881.

Life[]

She was the daughter of Fjodor Sergeevich Golitsyn and Anna Alexandrovna Prozorovskaya, and was the granddaughter of . She married the diplomat prince Alexei Borisovich Kurakin (1809—1872) in 1835.

She became senior lady-in-waiting to Maria Feodorovna in 1866. She remained in office after Maria Feodorovna became empress in 1881, but died later that same year, and was succeeded by Hélene Kotchoubey.

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