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    MADAME SWETCHINE. 305

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    Tim Biography Of A Hussian Lady Of High ...

    French _Encyclopaedia into Russian , —an enjoyable task to a tough literary appetite ! His grand-daughter inherited an astonishing

    power _Moscow of plodding was then throug even h the more most than voluminous at the studies present . day , the

    national capital of Hussia , ; and the first impressions which Mademoiselle associations Soynionof of her native received land were But blended the great with the Empress most illustrious Catherine

    . II . a woman whose marked intellectual powers elevate her to a rank , in the roll of European nionarchs which her moral

    character was far from commanding in a woman ' s domestic sphere , few closest appreciated of her ersonal the subj services e interests cts the of ch distinguished arge Of thi of s number her privat men was , e and correspondence M . coniided Soymonof to : some and she

    gave him p a high post in . the administration , and made him a private secretaryin the fulfilment of which trust he quitted Moscow ,

    ; His and mind took was up his solid abode and in cultivated the imperial his palace manners at St and . Petersburg his counte _^ - . ;

    likeness nance were resemble full of those nobleness of an ; anti his features head . , preserved His father in Theodore a cameo

    educated Ivanowitch , in the Soymon Naval of , School had likewise instituted que been by a Peter man of the hi Great gh distinction , ; and had ,

    sustained a brilliant examination in the presence of the Czar , whom he of afterwards Persiaivanowitch accompanied wrote in m the any first of his descri camp ption aigns we , notabl possess y in of that the

    saw a Casp livel and ian y . witness Sea heard , ; . and of The kep Russian history t a journal hi of gh Sop life with hie : ' v for s alu paternal this able proteg remarks grandfather e of on Peter what made bears the he

    Governor Great . was of exile Siberia d by ( where the Empress he had been Anne a in prisoner 1740 , ) by and the then Ernpress Elizabeth . He died in the reign of the Empress Catherine , in 1780 ,

    nearly a hundred years old , and surrounded by universal honor . Mademoiselle Sophie Soymonof was christened hie dAnhalt after the Zerbst Empress and ,

    the had who Greek onl had y ori assumed Chur ginall ch y . the been M nam . Soymonof the e of Princess Catherine , notwithstanding Sop on becoming _' his a - occupations member , of

    upon as courtier the daug and hter secretaire who remained intime , found for six time years to his bestow blended only child assiduous with . fatherl Struck care with her id his fondness was soon y

    in pride and in , for the rap little acquisition progress child So £ mie of she , showe languages developed d talent ; and singular alike , what for firmness was music more and of remarkable character drawing . ,

    future Exceeding so young history steadfastness a and correspondence , is perhaps ; tlie and most it was noteworth early p y lanted point in in her the

    power and her of father self-deni promised al . She th had at she set should her heart have on one possessing ; the fille d d ays with a w which atch ,

    pectation antici elapsed pation between , and of the little deli promise g woman hts of this and could wonderful its not fulfilment sleep treasure at were nig . It from was b intense oug ht

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    Madame Swetchine. 305

    MADAME SWETCHINE . 305

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 305, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/17/