Princess Anna Gruzinskaya Tolstaya (Russian: Анна Грузинская-Толстая, 1798–1889) was a Russian aristocrat of Georgian royal origin.[1]
Anna Gruzinskaya Tolstaya | |
|---|---|
 Anna Gruzinskaya by Pyotr Sokolov | |
| Born | 31 January 1798 Moscow |
| Died | 17 July 1889 Moscow |
| Noble family | Bagrationi (by birth) Tolstoy (by marriage) |
| Spouse(s) | Prince Alexander Petrovych Tolstoy |
| Father | Georgy Gruzinsky |
| Mother | Varvara Nikolayevna Bakhmetev |
Princess Anna was born on 31 January 1798 in Moscow to Prince Georgy Gruzinsky and Varvara Nikolayevna Bakhmetev.
Princess Anna married Prince Alexander Petrovych Tolstoy (1801-1873) but had no children.[2][3]
According to a lady-in-waiting Alexandra Smirnova:
"Princess Anna did not want to get married and wanted to live in a monastery. Her father let her go, and she went to the Belmazhskaya monastery, where she was not considered to [be] set up for the monastic life. The 35-year-old princess then married Tolstoy, a holy man. He submitted himself to her eccentric character and lived with her as brother."[4]
She died in Moscow on 17 July 1889.
References
edit- ^ Руммель В. В., Голубцов В. В. Родословный сборник русских дворянских фамилий. — С.-Петербург: Издание А. С. Суворина, 1887. — Т. 2. — С. 510. — 929 с.
- ^ Гиппиус, Василий Васильевич (1989). Gogol. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-0907-9.
- ^ Karlinsky, Simon (1976). The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-80281-0.
- ^ А. О. Смирнова-Россет. Дневник. Воспоминания. — М.: Наука, 1989. —С. 224.