Dorothea de Ficquelmont

Dorothea de Ficquelmont
Countess de Ficquelmont
Portrait by Pyotr Sokolov, 1837
BornCountess Dorothea von Tiesenhausen
(1804-10-14)14 October 1804
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died10 April 1863(1863-04-10) (aged 58)
Venice, Austrian Empire
BuriedDubí
Noble familyTiesenhausen
SpouseKarl Ludwig von Ficquelmont
FatherFerdinand von Tiesenhausen
MotherPrincess Elisabeth Koutouzova

Dorothea "Dolly" de Ficquelmont (Russian: Да́рья Фёдоровна Фикельмо́н, romanized: Darya Fyodorovna Fikelmon; 14 October 1804, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – 10 April 1863, Venice, Austrian Empire), born Countess Dorothea von Tiesenhausen, was a Russian writer and salonist. A granddaughter of the Russian war hero General Prince Kutuzov (who distinguished himself in the Napoleonic Wars), she was a Russian aristocrat of German Baltic origin, and later a member of the Austrian nobility as the wife of Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont.

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