Sofia Sergeyevna Trubetskaya

This article does not cite any sources. Please help by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (January 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

show This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (January 2016) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Spanish article. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 4,536 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at [[:es:Sofía Troubetzkoy]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|es|Sofía Troubetzkoy}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Trubetskaya in 1863 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

Sofia Sergeyevna Trubetskaya or Sophie Troubetskoy (25 March 1836, Moscow – 8 August 1898, Madrid) was a Russian princess.

Life[]

She was the daughter of Ekaterina Petrovna Mussina-Pushkina (1 February 1816 - c. 1897), whose beauty she inherited. Her father was either Ekaterina's husband the cavalry lieutenant Prince Sergey Vasilyevich Trubetskoy (1814 - 12 May (30 April Old Style), 1859), making her their only child, or her lover Nicholas I of Russia. Her paternity was questioned right from her birth - shortly afterwards Sergey left for the Caucasus whilst Ekaterina went abroad, eventually settling in Paris with her daughter.

She met the Frenchman Charles de Morny, half-brother of Napoleon III, then special envoy to Russia, at the coronation of Alexander II - they married in St Petersburg on 7 January 1857 (Old Style - 26 December 1856) and moved back to France together. They had four children:

• Charlotte (1858-1883), married José Osorio y Heredia, Count of Corzana, had a son;
• Auguste, Duke of Morny (1859-1920), married Carlotta Guzman y Ybarra, had three daughters;
• Serge (1861-1922), became an officer in the French army, died unmarried;
• Mathilde (1863-1944), married Jacques Godart, 6th Marquis de Belbeuf, had no children

They lived cosmopolitan lives in St Petersburg and Paris, with a love for exotic birds, monkeys and Japanese dogs. Her husband died suddenly on 26 February 1865 and she left their residence to live austerely in mourning. This lasted until she was looking through some documents and accidentally found a note for an assignation between Charles and his mistress - she then left mourning and slowly resumed her social life, in the course of which she met the Spanish nobleman José Osorio y Silva at his villa in Deauville, a major venue for the French aristocracy. He was living there with the exiled Spanish royal family and married Sofia in Vitoria on 21 March 1869. She organised social events, festivals and cultural gatherings to gain support and raise money for her husband's plan to restore the Spanish monarchy.

She was accepted into the Spanish aristocracy, becoming a dame of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa and introducing the tradition of the Christmas tree into Spain. She died in Madrid in 1898 from a respiratory illness and was buried in the cemetery of Pere-Lachaise, a few metres from the grave of her first husband.

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sophie Troubetzkoy.

• http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1949/12/28/019.html