Dorothea Lieven
influential figure in 19th-century European diplomatic, political and social circles (1785-1857)
English: Countess, later HSH Princess Dorothea von Lieven (Latvian: Doroteja fon Līvena; Russian: Дарья Христофоровна Ливен, Daria Khristoforovna Liven), née Benckendorff (17 December 1785 - 27 January 1857), a Russian noblewoman and wife of Prince Khristofor Andreyevich Lieven, Russian ambassador to London, 1812 to 1834, was a political force in her own right.
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George Cruikshank's caricature of Princess Lieven waltzing with Prince Kozlovski at Almack's -
HSH Princess von Lieven, by Thomas Lawrence circa 1813 -
Dorothea von Lieven (2)
