Varvara Golovina

Varvara Golovina
Countess Golovina, by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
BornVarvara Nikolayevna Golitsyna
1766 (1766)
Russian Empire
Died11 September 1821(1821-09-11) (aged 54–55)
Paris, France
Noble familyGolitsyn
SpouseNikolai Nikolaevich Golovin
FatherNikolai Fyodorovich Golitsyn (1728-1780)
MotherPraskovia Ivanovna Shuvalova (1734-1802)
Occupationartist and memoirist

Countess Varvara Nikolayevna Golovina, née Princess Golitsyna (Russian: Варвара Николаевна Головина, княжна Голицына, 1766–11 September 1821) was an artist and memoirist from Russian nobility, maid of honour of the Russian court, a close confidant of Empress Elizabeth, favorite Ivan Shuvalov's niece and Dame of Order of Saint Catherine (1816).

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