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I can see her now, enthroned majestically in a huge armchair, the back of which was decorated with three coronets, the emblems of her triple rank as princess, marchioness, and countess. In spite of her extreme old age, she was still beautiful and had retained an imposing appearance and aristocratic
311:"With surprising simplicity, she gave in to the strength of her feelings. At every ball, she behaves as though she and Gervais are the only ones in the world. He is very young, with an unattractive face, but he is very much in love, sensitive and perhaps more capable than he is given credit for."
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in Saint
Petersburg. On the wedding document, the couple gave their ages as 46 and 32, when Zinaida was in fact fifty. To make the marriage seem more appropriate, Zinaida procured the titles of Count of Chauveau and Marquis de Serre for her new husband. From 1860, he was also the overseer of the
327:"a romantic attachment for a young revolutionary whom she followed to Finland where he was interned in the Sveaborg Fortress. She bought a house on a hill facing the prison in order to be able to gaze at her beloved's window from her room."
333:. However, in the same book, Yusupov claims that his great-grandmother died at a hundred years old in 1897, which is factually incorrect, so the validity of his claims can be called into question. He also stated that in 1925,
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tried to court her, to no results. At a ball there, she met Louis
Charles Honoré Chauveau (1829–1889), a staff captain of the National Guard twenty years her junior. On 7 May 1861, they wed in the chapel of her house on
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In 1891, Princess
Zinaida sold the Château de Keriolet to the French government on the condition that it would be turned into a museum. She stayed in her house in Parc des Princes,
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Soon enough, Zinaida's husband found out, which deeply saddened him. To put rumours to an end, Gervais left Saint
Petersburg. He died in 1841 aged only 35 while on an expedition in
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Zinaida and her brother
Dimitri received a good education, which prompted the former's interest in poetry and art. Later, she continued the art collection of her parents-in-law.
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was left to her great-grandson
Nicholas, who died in 1908. After his death, the house was vacant for many years until it became a girls' school, the Cours Dulancoup, which her
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in 1810 to chamberlain Ivan
Dimitrievich Naryshkin and Varvara Nikolaevna Ladomirskaia, Princess Zinaida was a member of the noble
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bearing. Always carefully made up and perfumed, she wore a red wig and an impressive number of pearl necklaces.
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for her husband. During their marriage, Louis-Charles had a long-term affair with Jeanne Ducos, daughter of
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In 1830, Princess
Zinaida began an affair with cavalry officer Nikolai Gervais (1807–1841).
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Yakovleva, M. (2006). "The eccentric of the big world, love and life of Zinaida Yusupova".
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Zinaida Ivanovna was noted by her contemporaries for her intelligence and beauty.
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in 1826, 15-year-old Zinaida caught the eye of 32-year-old widower
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discovered a hidden room behind Zinaida's bedroom in her house in
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called her "one of Saint Peterburg's lionesses", while
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168:Countess de Chauveau
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820:Russian socialites
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240:Nicholas I
219:murderer.
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