Anna Ivanovna Baryatinskaya Tolstoy

Countess Anna Ivanovna Tolstaya , née Princess Baryatinskaya (; December 5, 1774 - April 12, 1825) was the sister of prince Ivan Baryatinsky, wife of Marshal Nikolai Alexandrovich Tolstoy (1765–1816), a close friend of the Empress Elizabeth Alexeyevna and memoirist Countess Varvara Golovina.

Biography Daughter of Prince Ivan Baryatinsky, the Russian ambassador in Paris, and Princess Catherine Petrovna Holstein-Beck of Oldenburg, Princess Baryatinskaya held a high position in Russian society. To be invited to her house was considered a great honor. Wealth allowed her to live well and in great style. The poet Ivan Dolgorukov was a frequent guest of Princess Baryatinskaya; he participated in performances at her home and took care of her daughter.

In 1787, Anna became the wife of Count Nikolai Alexandrovich Tolstoy. In May 1793 he was appointed chamberlain to Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich, the future Alexander I of Russia.

Widowed in December 1816, Countess Tolstoy died in Paris on April 12, 1825, and was buried in the Cimetière du Mont-Valérien.

Children She had two sons and two daughters:

Ekaterina (15 August 1789 - 11 February 1870), grew up near the Court. Her name is often found in the correspondence of the Empress Elizabeth. She was married to Lieutenant General Prince Constantine Ksaverevichem Lubomirski (1786–1870), and had a son and six daughters. Eudokia (1793–1797) Alexander Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1793–1866), was married to Princess Anna Mikhailovna Scherbatova, died in Nice. Emmanuel (1802–1825), is buried in the Volkov Lutheran Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.