Biography of Amalia

Countess Amalia Lerhenfeld Amalia Kryudener. The portrait of G. Fifteen -year -old Amelie was so charming, and the nineteen -year -old Theodore was so warning and cute that a reverent love quickly arose between them. They wandered along the green streets of Munich, entered cozy cafes and art galleries. Sometimes they went out of town, on the hilly shores of the Danube.

In the fall, G. Theodore made Amelie an offer. The sixteen -year -old countess agreed, but Amalia came from an old and rich family. Her mother was Princess Teresa Tourn-End-Taxis-the sister of the Prussian Queen of Louise. The father - Count Maximilian Lerhenfeld, the father died when the daughter was one year old, and since the child was illegitimate, then, at the request of her father, the baby, like her adopted daughter, was brought up by the wife of Count Lerhenfeld.

This explains the oddity of history. Thus, Amalia von Lerhenfeld was a cousin, and, perhaps, the sister of the Russian empress. Naturally, for the relatives of Amalia, a young freelance employee of the mission, moreover, was at an inconsistent and poor, was not an attractive party. Theodore was refused. In the city of Amalia, Lerhenfeld became the wife of his colleague Baron A.

Krudener Amalia was not enthusiastic about a forced marriage: Alexander Sergeyevich was distinguished by a serious character, on his part it was a marriage by calculation, moreover, he was twenty -two years older than his wife. But Amalia also had its own characteristics. Firstly, the right to be called Countess Lerhenfeld had a restriction: she could not use the emblem and genealogy.

It overshadowed the joy. Secondly, devoid of parental warmth in childhood, Amelie learned to soberly look at what was happening and use her natural charm. Amalia became Baroness Krudener, Theodore fell in love with the lovely Eleanor von Botmer. Amalia was spinning in the whirlwind of social life: balls, theaters, techniques, home concerts. Theodore was also a secular man, and not only on duty.

They kept close relations and often met. Amalia is dedicated to the poem "I remember the gold time." Gagarin, and he handed them to Pushkin. Two numbers of “Contemporary” published twenty -four poems of the “Munich cycle” signed “F. The heavenly path of the constellation Lioness already in Munich appeared a secular lady, and the "young fairy" remained in the memory of the poet.

Fedor Ivanovich lamented: “My God, why was it turned into a constellation! She was so good on this earth! Her“ radiant presence ”fascinated, which was“ strange secret ”attracted around her. Everyone paid attention to the royal turn of her head and posture. Moreover, the Baroness had a good voice, and was mazed. The poets of A. Pushkin, Emperor Nicholas I, was also followed by his minister A.

Benckendorf, there were other court adherers. The palace, where it was a frequent guest. The next to the constellation of the Lioness was the unhappy star of Count A. Her influence was difficult to overestimate: one of the closest advisers to the emperor, the chief of the gendarme corps, the senator - he could much. Alexander Khristoforovich idolized Amalia, and was ready to fulfill any of her desires.

The Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna wrote about this “Union”: “As in all the belated hobbies, it was a lot of tragic in this. She used it coldly, prudently disposed of his special, his money, his connections, where and as soon as it seemed profitable to her. Under a good -natured appearance, a lovely, often funny nature, a cunning of the highest order.” It was true or high-society gossip, but the union broke up because of the next, and maybe simultaneous, hobbies of Mrs.

Crudener Count Vladimir Fedorovich Adlerberg, passions flared up in earnest and laid the end of the brilliant social career of Madame Crudener. Benkendorf, out of jealousy, accused her of intrigues in favor of Catholics. The political scandal began to prevent his growth of Alexander Krueener, who was still the husband of the beautiful Amalia, sent the ambassador to Sweden.

Adlerberg and rival Benkendorf. He, too, was not sideways from this story: on the eve of his departure to Stockholm, Ms. Kryudener gave birth to a son from him, who received the name of the parent after he legitimized his relationship with the baroness. They lived in Helsingfors the Swedish name Helsinki, where the house of Amalia turned into a secular salon. True, not Petersburg. Amelie's last meeting was visited by Fedor Ivanovich two months before his death.

She knew about the hopelessness of the state of the dear Theodore and came to say goodbye.The next day, he wrote to his daughter Daria: “Yesterday I experienced a minute of burning excitement as a result of my date with Countess Adlerberg, my good Amalia Krudener, who wished to see me in this world for the last time and came to say goodbye to me. In her face, the past of my best years was to give me a farewell kiss.” It was the spring of G.

Her husband Count N. Adlerberg died in Munich in December of the city, and a shadow flew sweetly at us. Now this shadow flies over us, and the air images inspired by Tyutchev’s poetry have become part of our life. It is believed that Amalia Krudener is the addressee of the poem "I met you."